单词 | safety zone |
释义 | safety zonen. 1. An area round a person, building, etc., in which safety is sought or ensured; spec. an island or part of a road or square where pedestrians may wait in safety to cross the road, catch a bus, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > portion for safety of pedestrians street island1853 island1869 refuge1869 street refuge1879 traffic island1887 safety island1893 safety isle1902 safety zone1915 1877 Ann. Rep. Inspectors of Explosives 1876 6 in Parl. Papers (C. 1763) XXIV. 497 The original license being launched on the condition that a certain safety zone..will be observed. 1909 Cent. Mag. Sept. 663/1 The safety zones in New York..should be made permanent in character by granite copings or fencings and ornamental in appearance. 1915 Policeman's Monthly Oct. 3/2 (caption) Safety zone at near-side car stop, Detroit. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 9/4 Mr. E. S. Harris asked the board to make some provision for ‘safety zones’ on the busiest streets of Victoria. 1994 Youth Worker's Encycl. 83/1 The chair in the middle of the room is the safety zone (anyone sitting in the chair can't be bopped). 2002 Compl. Idiot's Guide Motorcycles (ed. 2) iii. xii. 165 There's more you can do to increase the safety zone around you and your bike. 2004 Orange Coast July 128/2 We need to have a safety zone around us when we drive. It's not just those in front of us, or behind us, who can cause a problem. 2. During the Second World War (1939–45): an area round the Americas (excluding Canada and the European colonies of the Caribbean) in which military action was declared to be prohibited. Also in extended use. Now historical.The Pan-American declaration of the 300-mile-wide zone in September 1939 proved meaningless: in December 1939 a battle took place between a German battleship and British cruisers 200 miles off the coast of Uruguay. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space > a particular extent or region > distinguished by some quality or condition > from which something is excluded exclosure1920 safety zone1939 exclusion zone1976 1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 7/2 The safety zone would help the Allies, by keeping German submarines out of, roughly, a third of the Atlantic. 1940 J. Betjeman Old Lights for New Chancels 56 I will labour for Thy Kingdom, Help our lads to win the war,..Then wash the Steps around Thy Throne In the Eternal Safety Zone. 2005 J. Smith U.S. & Lat. Amer. v. 102 The foreign ministers..in 1939 sought to facilitate the policy of neutrality by declaring a ‘safety’ zone averaging 300 miles in width around the coastline of the Western hemisphere..into which the warships of the belligerents should not enter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1877 |
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