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Hazard

//ˈhæzəd// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. countable, uncountable

    "He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life."

  2. 2
    an obstacle on a golf course wordnet
  3. 3
    An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. countable, uncountable

    "The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards."

  4. 4
    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another wordnet
  5. 5
    An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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  1. 6
    a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune wordnet
  2. 7
    A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. countable, historical, uncountable

    "[T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen."

  5. 10
    Chance. countable, uncountable

    "I will stand the hazard of the die."

  6. 11
    Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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."

  7. 12
    The side of the court into which the ball is served. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    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. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation wordnet
  3. 3
    To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

    "I'll hazard a guess."

  4. 4
    take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome wordnet
  5. 5
    put at risk wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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