Sentence examples for safety catch from inspiring English sources
noun
A latching device that prevents accidental activation of a dangerous event, an interlock. Colloquially shortened to just a safety.
(The safety catch was on).
Put the safety catch back on.
Release the weapon's safety catch, as the other man's safety catch is almost certainly being released.
It was found with the safety catch still on.
The soldier raised his gun, the safety catch off, and pointed it at my heart.
He waggles a small metal tie that acts as a second safety catch.
The top-ranked computational hits were conveniently synthesized employing Solid Phase Synthesis (SPS) on an alkane sulfonamide 'Safety-Catch' resin.
Long will this correspondent remember the coolness with which one teenage marine flicked away his cigarette and then the safety-catch on his rifle, as a sniper's bullet zipped overhead.
This dithiane route was cleverly exploited in a safety-catch strategy, where keeping the carbonyl function masked prevented any photolytic activity, whereas hydrolysis restored the initial sensitivity.
Reoxidation of sulfur reactivates the directing group (releases the safety-catch) and a controlled second coupling using a different carbon nucleophile is then possible.
The compound 189 incorporates a safety-catch feature: p-quinone precursor is photochemically inert, but mild in situ reduction (sodium dithionite, NADH, etc). of this compound produces the photoreactive hydroquinone 186.
