Safety vs Sickerness - What's the difference?
safety | sickerness |
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
(obsolete) Certainty, assurance.
(obsolete) Security, safety, freedom from danger.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*:Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse .
As nouns the difference between safety and sickerness
is that safety is the condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty while sickerness is certainty, assurance.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.