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hazard

noun
/ˈhæzəd/UK/ˈhæzɚd/CA/ˈhæzəd/

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.

  1. derived from زهر
  2. derived from hasart
  3. inherited from hasard

Definitions

  1. The chance of suffering harm

    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.
    • Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.

  2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger

    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.

  3. An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in…

    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.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

    2. The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball…

      The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

    3. A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes

      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.
      • 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.

    4. Chance.

      • 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.

    5. 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 first.

    6. The side of the court into which the ball is served.

    7. A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next…

      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.

    8. To expose to chance

      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
      • He hazards his neck to the halter.

    9. To risk (something)

      To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

      • I'll hazard a guess.
      • I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
      • They hazard to cut their feet.

    10. A surname.

    11. A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

The neighborhood

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, hazard a guess, unhazarding

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hazard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA