Meaning of hazard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
   countable, uncountable
4. A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
5. An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
   countable, uncountable
6. A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
   countable, uncountable
7. The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
   countable, uncountable
8. A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
   countable, historical, uncountable
9. Chance.
   countable, uncountable
10. Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
11. The side of the court into which the ball is served.
    countable, uncountable
12. 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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“He then launched forth into a panegyric on Allworthy's goodness; into the highest encomiums on his friendship; and concluded by saying, he should never forgive his brother for having put the place which he bore in that friendship to a hazard.”

“If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […].”

“Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.”

“The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“Anne found the gaming room where mostly older people were seated at card tables. She realized then that, of course, no one was playing hazard. Dice games were technically illegal, and certainly improper. Gambling was illegal, but no one paid attention to that. Most people were playing whist for penny points.”

“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.”

“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.”

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