Hazard

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hazard \Haz"ard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hazarded}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Hazarding}.] [Cf. F. hasarder. See {Hazard}, n.]
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     1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of
        loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
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              Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical
              obedience.                            --John Clarke.
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              He hazards his neck to the halter.    --Fuller.
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     2. To venture to incur, or bring on.
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              I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.  --Shak.
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              They hazard to cut their feet.        --Landor.
  
     Syn: To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hazard \Haz"ard\ (h[a^]z"[~e]rd), n. [F. hasard, 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.
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     2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a
        fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
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              I will stand the hazard of the die.   --Shak.
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     3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the
        hazard of his reputation and life.
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              Men are led on from one stage of life to another in
              a condition of the utmost hazard.     --Rogers.
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     4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball
        (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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     5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in
        gaming. "Your latter hazard." --Shak.
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     6. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely
        played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind
        of bad ground.
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     {Hazard table}, a table on which hazard is played, or any
        game of chance for stakes.
  
     {To run the hazard}, to take the chance or risk.
  
     {to hazard}, at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
  
     Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See {Danger}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hazard \Haz"ard\ (h[a^]z"[~e]rd), v. i.
     To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hazard
       n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or
            misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn:
            {jeopardy}, {peril}, {risk}]
       2: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event
          to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused
          his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
          [syn: {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}]
       3: an obstacle on a golf course
       v 1: put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I
            am guessing that the price of real estate will rise
            again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
            [syn: {guess}, {venture}, {pretend}]
       2: put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"
          [syn: {venture}, {adventure}, {stake}, {jeopardize}]
       3: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you
          buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance},
           {risk}, {take chances}, {adventure}, {run a risk}, {take
          a chance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  203 Moby Thesaurus words for "hazard":
     accident, adventure, ante, ante up, assume, attempt, back,
     bechance, befall, bet, bet on, betide, bingo, block, blockade,
     book, bottleneck, brave, breakers ahead, calculated risk, call,
     card games, cardhouse, casualty, catch, cause for alarm, chance,
     chance hit, chance it, chuck and toss, chuck farthing,
     chuck-a-luck, chunk, come, come along, compromise, contingency,
     contingent, cordon, court destruction, cover, crack-loo, crap game,
     crap shooting, craps, crisis, curtain, danger, dangerous ground,
     dare, defy danger, desultoriness, determent, deterrent, difficulty,
     drawback, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment,
     expose, face up to, fade, fan-tan, flier, fluke, forget the odds,
     fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, gamble on, gamble with,
     gaping chasm, gathering clouds, handbook, hang-up, hap, happen,
     happen along, happen by chance, happening, happenstance, hitch,
     horse racing, house of cards, hurdle, imperil, imperilment,
     incur danger, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability,
     insubstantiality, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, joker, keno, lay,
     lay a wager, lay down, lay open, long odds, long shot, lotto, luck,
     lucky shot, make a bet, make bold, make free, meet a bet, menace,
     objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive,
     one small difficulty, parlay, pass, peril, perilousness, pinball,
     pinch, pitch and toss, play, play against, play with fire, plight,
     plunge, policy, pop up, precariousness, predicament, presume,
     pretend, punt, put in danger, put in jeopardy, quicksand,
     rely on fortune, risk, riskiness, rocks ahead, rouge et noir,
     roulette, rub, run a chance, run the chance, run the risk, see,
     set at hazard, shakiness, shell game, shiftiness, shiftingness,
     shot, slipperiness, snag, speculation, speculativeness, stake,
     stand pat, storm clouds, strait, stumbling block, stumbling stone,
     sweepstake, sweepstakes, take a chance, take a flier, take chances,
     take the liberty, tempt Providence, tempt fortune, the numbers,
     the numbers game, thin ice, threat, threaten, ticklishness,
     treacherousness, treachery, trente-et-quarante, trust to chance,
     try the chance, turn up, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness,
     uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability,
     unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness,
     unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, venture, wager
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Hazard, CA
    Zip code(s): 90063
  Hazard, KY (city, FIPS 35362)
    Location: 37.25296 N, 83.19528 W
    Population (1990): 5416 (2277 housing units)
    Area: 16.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Hazard, NE (village, FIPS 21765)
    Location: 41.09115 N, 99.07806 W
    Population (1990): 78 (40 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 68844

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Hazard, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
     Population (2000):    66
     Housing Units (2000): 39
     Land area (2000):     0.253208 sq. miles (0.655805 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.253208 sq. miles (0.655805 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            21765
     Located within:       Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
     Location:             41.090144 N, 99.077041 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     68844
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Hazard, NE
      Hazard
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Hazard, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
     Population (2000):    4806
     Housing Units (2000): 2291
     Land area (2000):     7.019985 sq. miles (18.181678 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    7.019985 sq. miles (18.181678 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            35362
     Located within:       Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
     Location:             37.255910 N, 83.193706 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Hazard, KY
      Hazard