Hazard vs. Danger
Hazardnoun
(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Hazardnoun
Chance.
Hazardnoun
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
Hazardnoun
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
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(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
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(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
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(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
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(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
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(programming) 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.
Hazardverb
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
Hazardverb
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
Hazardnoun
A game of chance played with dice.
Hazardnoun
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
Hazardnoun
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Hazardnoun
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Hazardnoun
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Hazardnoun
Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
Hazardverb
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Hazardverb
To venture to incur, or bring on.
Hazardverb
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Hazardnoun
a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;
Hazardnoun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;
Hazardnoun
an obstacle on a golf course
Hazardverb
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
Hazardverb
put at risk;
Hazardverb
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
Hazard
A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would allow them, even just theoretically, to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value.
Dangernoun
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
Dangernoun
An instance or cause of likely harm.
Dangernoun
(obsolete) Mischief.
Dangernoun
The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
Dangernoun
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
Dangernoun
(obsolete) Liability.
Dangernoun
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
Dangernoun
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Dangerverb
(obsolete) To claim liability.
Dangerverb
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
Dangerverb
(obsolete) To run the risk.
Dangernoun
Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Dangernoun
Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Dangernoun
Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
Dangernoun
Difficulty; sparingness.
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Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Dangerverb
To endanger.
Dangernoun
the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury;
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a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;
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a cause of pain or injury or loss;
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a dangerous place;
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the possibility of suffering harm or injury
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a cause or likely cause of harm or injury
Dangernoun
the possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening
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the status of a railway signal indicating that the line is not clear and that a train should not proceed
