hazard
See also: Hazard
English
Etymology
From Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), probably from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæzɚd/
Audio (US) (file) - (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhazəd/
Noun
hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)
- (historical) A type of game played with dice. [from 14th c.]
- Chance. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 4:
- I will stand the hazard of the die.
- 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian:
- I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 4:
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
- He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- (Can we date this quote?) Rogers
- Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
- 1599, Wm. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- 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.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- 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: […] .
- 2009 December 27, Barbara Ellen, The Guardian:
- Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
- The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- c.1600?, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- 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.
- But if you please
- c.1600?, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
chance — see chance
the chance of suffering harm
peril
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obstacle
Verb
hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Clarke
- Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
- (Can we date this quote?) Fuller
- He hazards his neck to the halter.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Clarke
- To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
- (Can we date this quote?) Landor
- They hazard to cut their feet.
- I'll hazard a guess.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
Translations
to chance; to take a risk
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German [Term?], from Old French hasart.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦazart/
Declension
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | hazard | hazardy |
genitive | hazardu | hazardů |
dative | hazardu | hazardům |
accusative | hazard | hazardy |
vocative | hazarde | hazardy |
locative | hazardu | hazardech |
instrumental | hazardem | hazardy |
References
- hazard in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxa.zart/
Audio (file)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xǎzard/
- Hyphenation: ha‧zard
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