Safety vs Redoubt - What's the difference?
safety | redoubt |
The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
(mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
(American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
(American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
Preservation from escape; close custody.
* Shakespeare
A small, temporary, military fortification.
A reinforced refuge; a fort.
A place of safety or refuge.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
As nouns the difference between safety and redoubt
is that safety is the condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty while redoubt is a small, temporary, military fortification.As a verb redoubt is
to dread.safety
English
Noun
(wikipedia safety)- If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
- Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.
- ''He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety .
- The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
- Imprison him, / Deliver him to safety ; and return.
Antonyms
* dangerDerived terms
* free safety * safety mechanism * safety net * safety pin * strong safetySee also
* security * secureredoubt
English
(wikipedia redoubt)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.