Secure vs Salvage - What's the difference?
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Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
the compensation paid to the rescuers
the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
damaged
* salvage cars auction.
Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue
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Of discarded goods, to put to use
To make new or restore for the use of being saved
Secure is a related term of salvage.
As verbs the difference between secure and salvage
is that secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect while salvage is of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue.As an adjective secure
is free from attack or danger; protected.As a noun salvage is
the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation or salvage can be .secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
- (Macaulay)
Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
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(wikipedia salvage)Etymology 1
From (etyl) salver, from .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(salvag)citation, page= , passage=Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.}}