Hazard vs. Harm
Hazardnoun
(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
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Chance.
Hazardnoun
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
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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.
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The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
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Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
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Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
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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;
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an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;
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an obstacle on a golf course
Hazardverb
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
Hazardverb
put at risk;
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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.
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physical injury; hurt; damage
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emotional or figurative hurt
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detriment; misfortune.
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That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Harmverb
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
Harmnoun
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Harmverb
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
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any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Harmnoun
the occurrence of a change for the worse
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the act of damaging something or someone
Harmverb
cause or do harm to;
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Harm is a moral and legal concept. Bernard Gert construes harm as any of the following: pain death disability loss of ability or freedom loss of pleasure.Joel Feinberg gives an account of harm as setbacks to interests.
