Fine Dictionary

rescue

ˈrɛskju
WordNet
A galley ship in which many figures and two other sloops also with figures rescue drowning people from the sea. The sky is strewn with stars.
A galley ship in which many figures and two other sloops also with figures rescue drowning people from the sea. The sky is strewn with stars.
  1. (v) rescue
    take forcibly from legal custody "rescue prisoners"
  2. (v) rescue
    free from harm or evil
  3. (n) rescue
    recovery or preservation from loss or danger "work is the deliverance of mankind","a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
Illustrations
Hercules rescues Alcestis from the underworld and brings her back to her husband Admetus. Hercules lifts the veil of Alcestis and shows it to Admetus, who joins his hands.
Hercules rescues Alcestis from the underworld and brings her back to her husband Admetus. Hercules lifts the veil of Alcestis and shows it to Admetus, who joins his hands.
Fire plate associated with rescue device.
Fire plate associated with rescue device
Allegorical tableau vivant with Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik who, as Perseus, comes to the rescue of Andromeda (the Netherlands). To the left in the water the sea monster (Spain). Screening planned - but ultimately not performed - on the water of the Damrak during the visit of the English Queen Henrietta Maria to Amsterdam, 20-22 May 1642. In the caption the title and 2 times 4 lines in Latin. Second record in a group of ten screenings and triumphal arches.
Allegorical tableau vivant with Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik who, as Perseus, comes to the rescue of Andromeda (the Netherlands). To the left in the water the sea monster (Spain). Screening planned - but ultimately not performed - on the water of the Damrak during the visit of the English Queen Henrietta Maria to Amsterdam, 20-22 May 1642. In the caption the title and 2 times 4 lines in Latin. Second record in a group of ten screenings and triumphal arches.
Prestressed horses pull a lifeboat. Rescue workers around it. Print on the occasion of the centenary of the North and South Holland Redding Company. At the bottom of the text: 1824 - November 11 - 1924; Offered as a reminder by the board of the North and South Holland Rescue Company.
Prestressed horses pull a lifeboat. Rescue workers around it. Print on the occasion of the centenary of the North and South Holland Redding Company. At the bottom of the text: 1824 - November 11 - 1924; Offered as a reminder by the board of the North and South Holland Rescue Company.
Mold model (port side) of a ship, small back plate. No gun gates, closed main deck, back deck and half deck indicated by screams. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; no rudder. Sheer ascending to both ends, one mountain wood. Round bilge.
Mold model (port side) of a ship, small back plate. No gun gates, closed main deck, back deck and half deck indicated by screams. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; no rudder. Sheer ascending to both ends, one mountain wood. Round bilge.
A large group of people are lost in the flames of purgatory. An angel rescues one of them and pulls him up from the fire to heaven by his arm. In heaven cherubim and angels look down to the fire below. In the center is the Christ monogram IHS in a radiant sun.
A large group of people are lost in the flames of purgatory. An angel rescues one of them and pulls him up from the fire to heaven by his arm. In heaven cherubim and angels look down to the fire below. In the center is the Christ monogram IHS in a radiant sun.
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino rescues a hanged man from the gallows. There is a ladder against the gallows. Left and right groups of four watching soldiers. On the left a walled city with an open gate, on the right in the background another city. The panel probably formed the predella of an altarpiece.
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino rescues a hanged man from the gallows. There is a ladder against the gallows. Left and right groups of four watching soldiers. On the left a walled city with an open gate, on the right in the background another city. The panel probably formed the predella of an altarpiece.
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a three-master. The large number of frame templates is striking. No gun gates; barge deck and half deck can be distinguished by screams. Two knees at the bow. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. The sheer rises at both ends, two mountain woods and one roe wood. Fairly flat underwater ship. Scale 1:55 (scale on model).
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a three-master. The large number of frame templates is striking. No gun gates; barge deck and half deck can be distinguished by screams. Two knees at the bow. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. The sheer rises at both ends, two mountain woods and one roe wood. Fairly flat underwater ship. Scale 1:55 (scale on model).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Rescue
    The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. "Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot."
  2. Rescue
    (Law) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
  3. Rescue
    (Law) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
  4. Rescue
    (Law) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. rescue
    To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; liberate from actual restraint; remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil: as, to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.
  2. rescue
    In law, to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody: as, to rescue a prisoner from a constable. Synonyms and To retake, recapture.
  3. rescue
    To go to the rescue.
  4. (n) rescue
    The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, danger, or any evil.
  5. (n) rescue
    In law, the forcible or illegal taking of a person or thing out of the custody of the law.
  6. (n) rescue
    Synonyms Release, liberation, extrication, redemption.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Rescue
    res′kū to free from danger or violence: to deliver: to liberate
  2. (pr.p) Rescue
    res′cūing; pa.t. and pa.p. res′cūed
  3. (n) Rescue
    the act of rescuing: deliverance from violence or danger: forcible release from arrest or imprisonment
Quotations
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul Richter
Luigi Pirandello
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
Henry Vaughan
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan
Dr. Robert Anthony
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver
Lord Henry P. Brougham
A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Lord Henry P. Brougham
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre,; L. pref. re-, re- + excutere, to shake or drive out; ex, out + quatere, to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion

Usage in the news

Five years ago in July, our first llamas arrived….rescues. blog.timesunion.com

0 The Black Forest Rescue Station #1 was completed in November 2003, and houses a majority of the department's equipment. firehouse.com

Workers sought to rescue their colleagues after an explosion at Massey Energy Company's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. forbes.com

Olympic fencer Tim Morehouse (above) came to the rescue when his table caught fire at the Right to Play Red Ball Gala at Capitale. nypost.com

HYRUM, Cache County — A 22-year-old man drowned Saturday in the Blacksmith Fork River trying to rescue his teenage sister, who lost her footing and fell into the water during a fishing trip. deseretnews.com

Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Meteor Madness. pcmag.com

Doubts Emerge in Bloc's Rescue Deal. online.wsj.com

Children rescued after being bound, blindfolded . kansascity.com

Bling is my 2 year old Chinese Crested rescue. arwickonline.com

Rescued dog becomes blood donor in Oklahoma. koco.com

A rescued dog is now saving other lives in Oklahoma. koco.com

Search and rescue is not a toy. dailypilot.com

Bohdi, a dog rescued by a local soldier in Afghanistan, flew into the Pensacola International Airport on Saturday, May 19. fox10tv.com

View full size www.connecttristates.com A German Shepherd dog that was just days away from being put down is rescued and is now certified as a search and rescue K-9. oregonlive.com

The Cattarins' primary contact for Greyhound rescue was Tom and Joyce McRorie of La Habra Heights, Calif, longtime members of Greyhound Pets of America, which is the largest dog-rescue organization in the world. planeandpilotmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

It is in this regard that we believe that DQ can come to the rescue by defining a concrete and practical phase-space description of an abstract net of observables (the standard set used in AQFT).
Deformation Quantization: From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Field Theory

If there are not enough hits in the BMS to reconstruct the momentum, a rescue algorithm is used.
The COMPASS Experiment at CERN

Zamfirescu, On the line connectivity of line graphs, Math.
General concepts of graphs

We propose a way to rescue the Bell measurement by coupling detectors via the energy filters, which are described b y energy dependent scattering amplitudes: rn , r′n , tn , t′n , where n = 1, 2 is the number of the detector.
Finite-temperature Bell test for quasiparticle entanglement in the Fermi sea

We propose a way to rescue the Bell measurement by a resonant coupling to the detectors.
Finite-temperature Bell test for quasiparticle entanglement in the Fermi sea

Usage in literature

With difficulty Archbishop Howley of Canterbury was rescued from the hands of an infuriated mob. "A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year" by Edwin Emerson

And yet, even as he spoke, he chafed at the woman's interference with Johan's plan of rescue. "Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905" by Various

Sorrow rescued sorrow, and gave him back to the torturers. "The Art of Disappearing" by John Talbot Smith

Had she unbound, and rescued him? "The Wild Huntress" by Mayne Reid

Had he done well in rescuing her? "The Cryptogram" by James De Mille

Simon tried to think of a way to rescue his dignity. "The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea

Even if they could come up with a plan to rescue Daoud, would he be willing to do anything? "The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea

Surrounded as A-ya was, at that moment, by the hordes of her captors, any attempt at her rescue would have been hopeless folly. "In the Morning of Time" by Charles G. D. Roberts

If not peacefully released, it was pretty evident that they would fight desperately for their rescue. "Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi" by John S. C. Abbott

The mishap occurred during a storm, and all of her crew were rescued by other vessels. "The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8)"

Usage in poetry
Thus beckons Love. Away then, wishes wild!
O may thy mother be as blest
As one whose eyes will sink to rest
Blessing thee for her rescued child!
"Aletheia To Phraortes" by Walter Savage Landor Author object (682)
He that turneth from the road to rescue another,
Turneth toward his goal:
He shall arrive in time by the foot-path of mercy,
God will be his guide.
"The Tribe Of The Helpers" by Henry Van Dyke Author object (2041)
Thus aided, see his rescued genius spring;
Again he pours the phrenzy of his song;
With EV'RY FEATHER in his eagle wing,
Once more in majesty he soars along.
"Lines Written At Kilkenny, On The Theatricals Of That City" by Sir John Carr Author object (618)
With the gold of Fairyland?
Where captive damsels hear my fleet
Steps rescuing them — their lips I meet.
O, life is grand! O, night is sweet
In that voluptuous land !
"Evensong" by E J Rupert Atkinson
Thou knowest, O Saviour, its hurt and its sorrows;
Didst rescue its joy by the might of thy pain:
Lord of all yesterdays, days, and to-morrows,
Help us love on in the hope of thy gain;
"Within and Without: Part IV: A Dramatic Poem" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
Let Thy kingdom come! its coming,
By the Gospel-light assured,
In the distant dawn is looming,
Sanctioned, sanctified, secured;
By the Great Creator's plan
Heaven's unveiled, and rescued man.
"Thy Kingdom Come" by John Bowring Author object (359)