Definition of "hazard" in Englisch

noun

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

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

2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

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

3. (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.

4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

7. Chance.

8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.

10. (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.

verb

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.

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

   • I'll hazard a guess.