hazard

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhæzəd/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhæzɚd/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈhæzəd/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈhɛzəd/ === Noun === hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards) The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.] An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.] (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. (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). (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. Chance. [from 16th c.] (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling. (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. ==== Synonyms ==== (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck (chance of suffering harm): adventure (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === 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. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “hazard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. == Czech == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɦazart] === Noun === hazard m inan gambling risk, gamble ==== Declension ==== === References === == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === hazard m (plural hazards) archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800 == Italian == === Noun === hazard m (invariable) hazard lights (on a vehicle) == Middle French == === Noun === hazard m (plural hazards) hazard; obstacle ==== Descendants ==== French: hasard == Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxa.zart/ Rhymes: -azart Syllabification: ha‧zard === Noun === hazard m inan (singular only) gambling (electronics) race condition ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === hazard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN hazard in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French hasard. === Noun === hazard n (plural hazarduri) hazard ==== Declension ==== == Serbo-Croatian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xǎzard/ Hyphenation: ha‧zard === Noun === hàzard m inan (Cyrillic spelling ха̀зард) gamble, gambling risk, hazard ==== Declension ====