hazard

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haz⋅ard

[haz-erd]

–noun

1.	an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.

2.	something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city.

3.	the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.

4.	Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.

5.	the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.

6.	a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.

7.	Court Tennis. any of the winning openings.

8.	(in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard).

–verb (used with object)

9.	to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article.

10.	to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.

11.	to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.

12.	to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.

—Idiom

13.	at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME hasard < OF, perh. < Ar al-zahr the die

Related forms:

haz⋅ard⋅a⋅ble, adjective

haz⋅ard⋅er, noun

haz⋅ard⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See danger. 3. accident, fortuity, fortuitousness. 10. stake, endanger, peril, imperil.

Antonyms:
1. safety.

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haz·ard (hāz'ərd)

A chance; an accident.
A chance of being injured or harmed; danger: Space travel is full of hazards.
A possible source of danger: a fire hazard.
Games A dice game similar to craps.
Sports An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.

tr.v. haz·ard·ed, haz·ard·ing, haz·ards

To expose to danger or harm. See Synonyms at endanger.
To venture (something); dare: hazard a guess.

[Middle English hasard, dice game, from Old French, possibly from Old Spanish azar, possibly from Arabic az-zahr, the gaming die : al-, the + zahr, gaming die.]

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Hazard

Haz"ard\, n. [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.]

1. A game of chance played with dice. --Chaucer.

2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.

3. Risk; danger; peril; as, 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. --Rogers

4. (Billiards?) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." --Shak.

Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.

To ru? the hazard, to take the chance or risk.

Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.

Hazard

Haz"ard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. ? Hazarding.] [Cf. F. hazarder. See Hazard, n.]

1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. --John Clarke.

He hazards his neck to the halter. --Fuller.

2. To venture to incur, or bring on.

I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. --Shak.

They hazard to cut their feet. --Landor.

Syn: To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.

Hazard

Haz"ard\, v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. --Shak.

Hazard

Haz"ard\, n. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.

Language Translation for : hazard

Spanish: riesgo, peligro,

German: das Wagnis,

Japanese: 危険

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hazard

1167, from O.Fr. hasard "game of chance played with dice," possibly from Sp. azar "an unfortunate card or throw at dice," which is said to be from Arabic az-zahr (for al-zahr) "the die." But this is doubtful because of the absence of zahr in classical Arabic dictionaries. Klein suggests Ar. yasara "he played at dice;" Ar. -s- regularly becomes Sp. -z-. The -d was added in Fr. in confusion with the native suffix -ard. Sense of "chance of loss or harm, risk," first recorded 1548; the verb sense of "put something at stake in a game of chance" is from 1530. Hazardous in the sense of "perilous" is from 1618.

Main Entry: haz·ard
Pronunciation: 'ha-z&rd
Function: noun
: a condition that tends to create or increase the possibility of loss —used esp. in insurance law

hazard

dicedice game dating at least to the 13th century and possibly of Arabic origin: the word hazard derives from the Arabic al-zahr ("die"). It was immensely popular in medieval Europe and was played for high stakes in English gambling rooms. The name of the popular American dice game of craps derives from the nickname "crabs" for the throws 1-1 and 1-2 in hazard. The modern rules of craps also grew out of the old English game

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