hazard
A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th cA game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
» This is a hazard to your health.
Das ist eine Gefahr für deine Gesundheit.
Это опасно для твоего здоровья.
Meaning
10 senses(countable, historical, uncountable)A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
(countable, uncountable)Chance; accident, unpredictability.
(uncountable)The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome.
He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Zufall, Gefahr
шансšans, слу́чайslúčaj, опа́сностьopásnostʹ
a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
(countable)A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; (later also) a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty.
The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
(countable, uncountable)Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court.
(countable, uncountable)A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(countable, uncountable)Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle.
Hindernis
поме́хаpoméxa
(Ireland, countable, historical, uncountable)A cabstand, especially in Dublin.
(countable, uncountable)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, obsolete, uncountable)Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
Examples
45 sentencesThis is a hazard to your health.
ruЭто опасно для твоего здоровья.
deDas ist eine Gefahr für deine Gesundheit.
I don't even want to hazard a guess.
Do you care to hazard a guess?
That's a safety hazard.
That's a fire hazard.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 3
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Origin
From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (veFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: hazardsSynonyms
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21 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable