Secure

Definition: Secure

Secure

Adjective

1. Free from fear or doubt; easy in mind; "secure himself, he went out of his way to help others".

2. Free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field".

3. Kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss; "the most protected spot I could find".

4. Remote from any source of danger; "the children are out of danger here".

5. Not likely to fail or give way; "the lock was secure"; "a secure foundation"; "a secure hold on her wrist".

6. Able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable".

7. Financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment".

Verb

1. Get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed".

2. Cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man".

3. Assure payment of.

4. Make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!".

5. Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak".

6. Furnish with battens; of ships.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "secure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SECURE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Secure

Acquisition

Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.

Belief

Adjective: believing; Verb: certain, sure, assured, positive,Adjective: believing; Verb: certain, sure, assured, positive, cocksure, satisfied, confident, unhesitating, convinced, secure.

Earliness

Verb: be early; Adjective:, be beforehand; adVerb: keep time, take time by the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage, preengage.

Hope

Adjective: hoping; Verb: in hopes; Noun: hopeful, confident; secure; (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian.

Junction

Firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved ; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable.

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Promise

Hold out an expectation; contract an obligation; become bound to, become sponsor for; answer for, be answerable for; secure; give security; underwrite.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

Retention

Secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband; (store); reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock; (possess); entail, tie up, settle.

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended).

Success

Gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there; manage to, contrive to; accomplish; (effect, complete); do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.

Crosswords: Secure

Latin (authority, ax, ax battle, blow, chopper, domain, free from care, hatchet, safe, secure, sovereignty, supremacy, untroubled, vine-dresser's blade), Romanian (ax, axe, halberd, Halbert, hatchet).

It may be difficult to secure your release (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

It takes a very secure man to walk like that (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

If you shoot too high and miss, everybody feels more secure. You've put the investigation back months (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

He mortgaged everything he owns, right down to his underwear, to secure a loan from the bank (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)

I think you will find everything is more than in order, Sir. You are now entering the most secure place in the whole of England (Johnny English; writing credit: Neal Purvis; Robert Wade)

Bring you fears stay secure (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

'Cause your love makes me feel so secure (Because Of Love; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

I've never had the kind of love that made me feel secure (24/7; performing artist: Kevon Edmonds)

Everything else secure (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

Cause I feel so secure when we're together (Can't Fight This Feeling; performing artist: REO Speedwagon)

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. (references; author: Greek Proverb)

Three Battles to Secure Peace for Nation (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Secure Computing Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Secure Trust Banking Group PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Building Secure Servers with Linux (reference)

• Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (reference)

• SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Secure Your Home:Guide to Preventing (reference)

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Music

• So Sedated So Secure (reference)

• The Only Reason I Feel Secure [Jade Tree] (reference)

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High Tech

• PNY PSD064RF 64MB SD SECURE DIGITAL MEMORY CARD (reference)

• SANDISK 128MB Secure Digital Memory Card (reference)

• SECURE CONSOLE SERVER 48 VDC (reference)

• Terminet Xp Wme Xp Gis Secure [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Secure Stand Gate (reference)

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Grappling hook to secure BISP to cable prior to recovery BISP - Benthic Interface Sensing Package On NOAA Ship PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Preparing current meters to secure to tethered mooring during Gulf Stream eddy studies from the NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Fisheries.

Working together to secure the harvest of shrimp off the THREE SONS. Credit: Fisheries.

A coral fragment is cross-wired to keep it secure in the high energy environment at the fringing reef at Mona Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A diver uses a pneumatic drill to create a hole in the reef framework to secure loose coral fragments. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Workers fit the ladder into place and secure it into the notched dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Divers secure MAKALII to the LRT barge before surfacing. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Nested pipes, one within another, provide more secure habitat for these three species of black trigger fish, Melichthys vidua, spiny puffer, Diodon hystrix, and squirrel fish, Myripristis sp. yellow tang surgeon fish, Zebrasoma flavescens. This type of. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Preparing to secure the McARTHUR's gangway at Key West. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"Sweat equity" workers Josie richardson (l) and Hiram Reed secure drywall material to the ceiling of one of the self help homes under construction in Indianola, MS. Credit: USDA.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us. (reference)

The reason whereof is plain; because the one using force, which threatened my life, I could not have time to appeal to the law to secure it: and when it was gone, it was too late to appeal. (Second Treatise of Government)

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. (reference)

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (reference)

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. (reference)

Germany shall draw up the necessary regulations to secure and guarantee such freedom of transit over such railways and waterways in her territory as normally give access to the free zone. (reference)

We understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of German aggression. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference)

The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination. (reference)

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Her situation should secure your compassion

Any College, that wished to secure some specially clever young man, had to waylay him at the Station, and hunt him through the streets

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day

Think you, but that I know our state secure, I would be so triumphant as I am

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Health

For severe cases of stress incontinence, the surgeon may secure the bladder with a wide sling. (references)

Many data suggest that deficient nutrition in pregnancy carries with it a high risk of fetal damage or loss. This is of particular concern because as many as 80 percent of patients having weight reduction surgery are women of childbearing age. In view of the uncertain frequency and effects on fetal development of rapid weight loss, micro- or macronutrient deficiency, or other metabolic sequelae of these procedures, secure birth control methods should be provided for these patients during this period of weight loss. They should be informed that maternal malnutrition may impair normal fetal development. (references)

Business

Dozens of manufacturers have managed to secure ISO 9000 certification. (references)

AIDC was founded to secure an aerospace manufacturing capability in Taiwan. (references)

It is generally extremely difficult to secure an appointment with a national daily. (references)

Children

Bolivia

Many children, particularly from rural areas, lack the birth certificates and identity documents they need to secure social benefits and protection. (references)

Lebanon

Most efforts to secure education, independence, health, and shelter for persons with disabilities are made by approximately 100 private organizations. (references)

Latvia

The center also has a forensic interview room where victims can be interviewed in a secure environment and their testimony directly transmitted to a courtroom. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mexico

To visit the country for religious purposes, foreign religious workers must secure government permission. (references)

United Kingdom

An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to secure freedom of speech and of the press. (references)

Cuba

These medical professionals were granted immigrant status by other countries, but the Ministry of Health had refused to grant them permission to secure exit permits. (references)

Discrimination

Fiji

A compact included in the Constitution specifically provides for affirmative action and "social justice" programs to secure effective equality of access to opportunities, amenities, and services for ethnic Fijians and Rotumans and for all disadvantaged citizens and groups. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is politically stable and secure. (references)

Costa Rica

One challenge will be how to secure payment for these exports. (references)

Human Rights

Austria

No progress was made during the year to secure Sanchez's extradition. (references)

Cambodia

Persons without the means to secure defense counsel often effectively are denied the right to a fair trial. (references)

Cameroon

The organization worked with the prosecutor's office to secure the release of approximately 100 of the most egregious cases. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

In July 2000, the U.N. Human Rights Commission stated that Australia should do more to secure for indigenous citizens a stronger role in decisionmaking over their traditional lands and natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

Many Indo-Fijians, particularly farmers, believe that the absence of secure land tenure discriminates against them. (references)

India

Members of each caste--and frequently each subcaste--are expected to fulfill a specific set of duties (known as dharma) in order to secure elevation to a higher caste through rebirth. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

The key task in structural policy is to secure prerequisites for employment-oriented stable economic growth. (references)

Oman

Both countries share an interest in maintaining political stability in the area, and keeping open and secure the Strait of Hormuz. (references)

KUWAIT

These are offset by lengthy bureaucratic procedures, and for foreigners, high tax rates and complex procedures to secure work visas. (references)

Political Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

In accordance with its rights under the Constitution, in 1996 the Nevis Assembly initiated steps towards secession from the Federation, the most recent being a referendum in 1998 that failed to secure the required two-thirds majority for secession. (references)

Trade

Honduras

Financing is not available for projects that can secure adequate financing from commercial sources. (references)

Japan

Some smaller firms report that they have been forced to secure needed financing from offshore sources. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Cars should always be parked in well lit, secure parking lots. (references)

Ukraine

CS Kyiv strongly recommends that business travelers secure all documents prior to entering Ukraine. (references)

Brazil

US Commercial or Consular officers are unable to secure relief for anyone arriving without a valid visa. (references)

Women

Samoa

The Ministry of Women's Affairs oversees and helps secure the rights of women; during the year, it was increasingly active on the problem of domestic violence. (references)

Worker Rights

India

Unaffiliated unions are not able, in all instances, to secure for themselves the protections and rights provided by law. (references)

Cambodia

Civil service salaries also were insufficient to provide a decent standard of living, requiring government officials to secure outside sources of income. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "secure": feel secure of victory ♦ make secure ♦ make smb. feel secure ♦ secure a room ♦ secure arms ♦ secure by patent ♦ Secure Customs Enforcement Network ♦ secure foundation ♦ secure from ♦ secure from all dangers ♦ secure from attack ♦ secure future ♦ secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ♦ secure oneself ♦ secure oneself against ♦ secure privacy ♦ secure Shell ♦ secure Sockets Layer ♦ secure success ♦ secure the door. Additional references.

Beginning with "secure": secure-and, secure-line.

Ending with "secure": non-secure, re-secure.

Afrikaans

veilig (harmless, safe), vasstel (affix, attach, determine, fasten, fix, make, make fast), vasmaak (affix, attach, determine, fasten, fix, make, make fast), bepaal (affix, attach, command, confine, define, determine, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, qualify, restrict, set, set conditions, stipulate, tell), behoue (safe). (various references)

Albanian

siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, ensure, find, fit out, furnish, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, reassure, satisfy, supply, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), shtie në dorë (get into, lay one's hands on, master, nail down, seize on), ruaj (bear, conserve, cure, enshrine, guard, hold, hug, keep, lay up, maintain, police, preserve, protect, put by, reserve, retain, safeguard, save, shield, spare, spin out, tend, ware, watch, watch over), në vend të sigurt, mbyll mirë, i sigurt (assertive, assured, certain, clear, confident, dead, dependable, fast, firm, foolproof, indubitable, infallible, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, sound, sterling, sure, trusty, unerring), i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, unruffled), i mbyllur mirë (lockfast), i fiksuar mirë, fiksoj (affix, arrange, assign, clinch, fasten, fix, freeze, hang, impress, Mount, nail, pin down, pose, print, set, settle, stabilize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في مكان آمن, ‏كفل (ass, backside, bottom, butt, buttock, buttocks, ensure, guarantee, guaranty, insure, pledge, posterior, prat, rump, sponsor, vouch), ‏منيع (forbidding, immune, impenetrable, impervious, impregnable, inexpugnable, invincible, invulnerable, strong, unapproachable), ‏محكم (airtight, coherent, compact, fast, firm, hermetic, impermeable, impervious, precise, solid, strong, tight, well knit), ‏متين (able bodied, consistent, durable, enduring, firm, lasting, robust, safe, solid, sound, stabile, staunch, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough), ‏مطمئن (at ease, calm, peaceful, quiet, reassured, safe, tranquil, unconcerned), ‏مأمون (safe), ‏واثق (assured, certain, clear, confident, convinced, doubtless, in the bag, reliant, safe, sterling), ‏حكم القفل, ‏حصل (acquire, angle, get, obtain, procure), ‏تحصل (gain, obtain, procure, snaffle, take out), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏ضمن (assure, avouch, embody, enclose, ensure, farm out, guarantee, inclose, include, inside, insure, sponsor, vouch, within), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

намирам (be found, detect, discover, find, fit in, found, get, hit, hunt out, judge, land, locate, look up, raise, regard, root out, root up, run down, rustle up, scare up, see, strike, track down, turn up), добре затворен, подсигурен (assured), подсигурявам (assure), постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, reach, realize, turn, turn in, work out), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, seize, take in, take up), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), запазвам (hold over, keep, maintain, preserve, protect, reserve, retain, save, set aside), залоствам здраво, завързвам (bend, contract, fasten, gripe, knit, lash down, make fast, moor, tie up), закрепям здраво, затварям здраво, застрахован (assured, insured), добре закрепен, надежден (dependable, hopeful, likely, reliable, responsible, sterling, straight, sure), укрепявам (bank, embank, entrench, fortify, strengthen, truss), обезпечавам (assure, cover, guarantee, insure, provide, suit, support), осигурявам (assure, cover, ensure, indemnify, insure, provide, stipulate), осигурявам си (make certain of, procure), в безопасност (safe), връзвам здраво (seize), гарантирам (assure, engage, entrench, insure, intrench, safeguard, underwrite, warrant), траен (abiding, durable, enduring, fast, keeping, lasting, secular, serviceable, settled, stable, standing, steadfast, stout, substantive), сигурен (bound, certain, confident, copper-bottomed, dependable, good, infallible, necessary, positive, reliable, responsible, safe, solid, steady, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, undoubted, unfailing, unfaltering), спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), снабдявам се с (obtain), солиден (lusty, massive, massy, portly, pucka, pukka, rugged, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy, valid), уверен (assured, certain, confident, positive, reliant, sure, sure footed, unfaltering, unwavering), на сигурно място. (various references)

Chinese 

安全 (safe, safety, security). (various references)

Czech

získat (acquire, cajole, capture, carry off, come by, conciliate, drum up, elicit, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, take, win), zaruèit (assure, guarantee, hypothecate), zajistit (assure, detain, ensure, make certain, make sure, pot, provide, safeguard, vindicate), zabezpeèit (safeguard), vyrovnaný (balanced, close, composed, equable, even, even tempered, good tempered, self possessed, serene, stable, well balanced), upevnit (anchor, confine, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, picket, plant, plant in, rivet, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), pevný (adamant, compact, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, firm, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, unmoved, unswerving, unyielding, valid), pevnì zavřít, přivázat