Meaning: A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Synonyms: precaution; safeguard; guard. Context examples: he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution / an insurance policy is a good safeguard / we let our guard down. Hypernyms (precaution is a kind of...):
Nabucco (. [naËbukko] ; short for Nabucodonosor [naËbukoËdÉËnozor] ~ [naËbukodonoËzÉr] , English Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.hen Nabucco learns that he has consigned his (true) daughter to death, he is overcome with grief and anger. He tells Abigaille that he is not in fact her father and searches for the document evidencing her true origins as a slave. Abigaille mocks him, produces the document and tears it up.
Raccoon (genus Procyon), also called ringtail , any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy ringed tails. The most common and well-known is the North American raccoon (Procyon lotor), which ranges from northern Canada and most of the United States southward into South America. It has a conspicuous black âmaskâ across the eyes, and the tail is ringed with 5 to 10 black bands.