hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæzəd/
ipa: /ˈhæzɚd/
ipa: /ˈhæzəd/
ipa: /ˈhɛzəd/
Forms: form: hazards
Etymology: From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.
Senses: examples: text: He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
text: Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
text: Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
text: He then launched forth into a panegyric on Allworthy's goodness; into the highest encomiums on his friendship; and concluded by saying, he should never forgive his brother for having put the place which he bore in that friendship to a hazard.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […].
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
ref: 2009 December 27, Barbara Ellen, The Guardian:
glosses: The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
examples: text: The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
glosses: An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
examples: text: Risk behavior in driving consists in hazard detection, threat appraisal, action selection and implementation. Hazard perception tests often include the task to react quickly to hazards within traffic scenarios.
ref: 2014, Neville Stanton et al., Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Part III, →ISBN:
glosses: An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
raw_tags: in driving a vehicle
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
examples: text: [T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:
text: All the young men go to Spratt’s after their balls. It is de rigueur, my dear; and they play billiards as they used to play macao and hazard in Mr. Fox’s time.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 40, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Hazard at the clubs and in fashionable society was conducted with all decorum. It was unfashionable and unpardonable to show any display of feeling at losses or gains.
ref: 1901, William Biggs Boulton, The Amusements of Old London, volume I, London: John C. Nimmo, page 139:
text: Anne found the gaming room where mostly older people were seated at card tables. She realized then that, of course, no one was playing hazard. Dice games were technically illegal, and certainly improper. Gambling was illegal, but no one paid attention to that. Most people were playing whist for penny points.
ref: 2002, Jo Beverley, Hazard, →ISBN:
glosses: A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
examples: text: I will stand the hazard of the die.
ref: c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 4:
text: I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
ref: 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian:
glosses: Chance.
examples: text: But if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both
Or bring your latter hazard back again
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
ref: c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice:
glosses: Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: The side of the court into which the ball is served.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
Synonyms: sense: chance
word: fortune
word: luck
sense: chance of suffering harm
word: adventure
sense: anything hazarded or risked
word: bet
sense: anything hazarded or risked
word: pledge
sense: anything hazarded or risked
word: skin in the game
sense: anything hazarded or risked
word: wager
Hyponyms: biohazard
chemical hazard
cognitohazard
geohazard
health hazard
infohazard
moral hazard
occupational hazard
Derived terms: antihazard
chicken-hazard
fire hazard
haphazard
hazardable
hazardful
hazardless
hazard light
hazardous
hazard pay
hazardproof
hazard ratio
hazard reduction burn
hazardry
information hazard
losing hazard
memetic hazard
multihazard
race hazard
subhazard
winning hazard