hazard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
computing
engineering
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
tennis
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.
Inflected forms:
form: hazards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hazards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hazarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hazarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hazarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
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.
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: […].
Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
gloss: An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
gloss: An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: [T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Chance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I will stand the hazard of the die.
I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
gloss: Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The side of the court into which the ball is served.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To expose to chance; to take a risk.
pos: verb
examples: to be consistent, you ought to be a Chriſtian in temper and practice; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience
He hazards his neck to the halter.
gloss: To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
pos: verb
examples: I'll hazard a guess.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
They hazard to cut their feet.
Synonyms: luck
Derived words: 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
hazard a guess
unhazarding
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: vaara
lang: German
word: Hindernis
lang: Greek
word: εμπόδιο
roman: empódio
lang: Māori
word: pūmate
lang: Turkish
word: engel
lang: Turkish
word: mani
lang: Turkish
word: mania
lang: Zazaki
word: mani