Hazard vs. Disaster

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.

Hazardnoun

(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.

Hazardnoun

(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

Hazardnoun

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

Hazardnoun

(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

Hazardnoun

(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.

Hazardnoun

(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.

Disasternoun

An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.

Disasternoun

An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.

Disasternoun

An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

Disasternoun

An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

Disasterverb

To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

Disasterverb

To bring harm upon; to injure.

Disasternoun

a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune;

Disasternoun

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;

Disasternoun

an act that has disastrous consequences

Disaster

A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95% of all deaths caused by hazards occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural hazards are 20 times greater (as a percentage of GDP) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.