hazard
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
Noun
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- 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. - a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard. - 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
- An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- 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. - 2014,...
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- [T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen. - 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:
- 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. - 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace...
- 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. - 1901, William Biggs Boulton, The Amusements of...
- Chance.
- I will stand the hazard of the die. - c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 4:
- I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies. - 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian:
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- 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...
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- 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.
Origin
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.
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Hyponyms
biohazard chemical hazard cognitohazard geohazard health hazard infohazard moral hazard occupational hazard
Derived
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
Verb
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- to be consistent, you ought to be a Chriſtian in temper and practice; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience - a. 1676, John Clarke, Excuses of the Irreligious:
- He hazards his neck to the halter. - 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
- To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
- I'll hazard a guess.
- I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. - c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- They hazard to cut their feet. - 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC: