Hazard vs. Risk
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.
Risknoun
(countable) A possible adverse event or outcome
Risknoun
The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
Risknoun
The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
Risknoun
The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event, determined by combining the likelihood of the event occurring with the effect should it occur.
Risknoun
An entity insured by an insurer or the specific uncertain events that the insurer underwrites.
Riskverb
(transitive) To incur risk of (something).
Riskverb
(transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
Riskverb
(transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).
Risknoun
Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
Risknoun
Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
Riskverb
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
Riskverb
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Risknoun
a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;
Risknoun
a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;
Risknoun
the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
Risknoun
the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
Riskverb
expose to a chance of loss or damage;
Riskverb
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environment), often focusing on negative, undesirable consequences.
