hazard

1. 1

   A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.countablehistoricaluncountable

   • [T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen.
   • All the young men go to Spratt’s after their balls. It is de rigueur, my dear; and they play billiards as they used to play macao and hazard in Mr. Fox’s time.
2. 2

   Chance; accident, unpredictability.countableuncountable

   • I will stand the hazard of the die.
   • I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
3. 3

   The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome.uncountable

   • He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
4. 4

   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.countable

   • The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
5. 5

   Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court.countableuncountable

6. 6

   Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.countableobsoleteuncountable

   • 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.
7. 7

   A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).countableuncountable

8. 8

   Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle.countableuncountable

9. 9

   A cabstand, especially in Dublin.Irelandcountablehistorical

   • Mr Bloom went round the corner and passed the drooping nags of the hazard.
10. 10

    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.countableuncountable

syn. luck

1. 1

   To expose to chance; to take a risk.

   • to be consistent, you ought to be a Chriſtian in temper and practice; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience
   • He hazards his neck to the halter.
2. 2

   To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

   • I'll hazard a guess.