HAZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hazard mean? 

• HAZARD (noun)
  The noun HAZARD has 3 senses:

1. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

2. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

3. an obstacle on a golf course

  Familiarity information: HAZARD used as a noun is uncommon.

• HAZARD (verb)
  The verb HAZARD has 3 senses:

1. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

2. put at risk

3. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

  Familiarity information: HAZARD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAZARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

endangerment; hazard; jeopardy; peril; risk

Context example:

drinking alcohol is a health hazard

Hypernyms ("hazard" is a kind of...):

danger (a cause of pain or injury or loss)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hazard"):

health hazard (hazard to the health of those exposed to it)

moral hazard ((economics) the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance))

occupational hazard (any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury)

sword of Damocles (a constant and imminent peril)

Derivation:

hazard (take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome)

hazard (put at risk)

hazardous (involving risk or danger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

chance; fortune; hazard; luck

Context example:

we ran into each other by pure chance

Hypernyms ("hazard" is a kind of...):

phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hazard"):

bad luck; mischance; mishap (an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate)

even chance; toss-up; tossup (an unpredictable phenomenon)

Derivation:

hazard (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An obstacle on a golf course

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hazard" is a kind of...):

obstacle (an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hazard"):

bunker; sand trap; trap (a hazard on a golf course)

water hazard (hazard provided by ponds of water that the golfer must avoid)

Holonyms ("hazard" is a part of...):

golf course; links course (course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf)

• HAZARD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hazard    ... he / she / it hazards   
Past simple: hazarded   
Past participle: hazarded   
-ing form: hazarding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

guess; hazard; pretend; venture

Context example:

I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong

Hypernyms (to "hazard" is one way to...):

speculate (talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hazard"):

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

surmise; suspect (imagine to be the case or true or probable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

hazard (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put at risk

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

adventure; hazard; jeopardize; stake; venture

Context example:

I will stake my good reputation for this

Hypernyms (to "hazard" is one way to...):

lay on the line; put on the line; risk (expose to a chance of loss or damage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hazard (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

adventure; chance; gamble; hazard; risk; run a risk; take a chance; take chances

Context example:

When you buy these stocks you are gambling

Hypernyms (to "hazard" is one way to...):

assay; attempt; essay; seek; try (make an effort or attempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hazard"):

go for broke (risk everything in one big effort)

luck it; luck through (act by relying on one's luck)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

hazard (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune)

 Context examples 

The team believes these new models help us gain a better understanding of Yellowstone's plumbing system, and may lead to improved estimates of the potential future seismic and volcanic hazards.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Here my master interposed, by asking me, “how I could persuade strangers, out of different countries, to venture with me, after the losses I had sustained, and the hazards I had run?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For the preconception period, miscarriage was associated with female age of 35 or above, for a hazard ratio of 1.96 (nearly twice the miscarriage risk of younger women).

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

Poor sense of smell is likely an important health marker in older adults beyond what we have already known about (i.e., connections with dementia, Parkinson's disease, poor nutrition, and safety hazards).

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He recoiled from side to side between the various objects and multiplied the hazards that in reality lodged only in his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to think, and I have no data on which to found a conjecture."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Is Sophy the youngest?” I hazarded.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A coded value specifying the type of hazard or threat associated with the biologic.

(Biologic Risk Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Keep hazards out of their reach and supervise them when they eat.

(Choking, NIH)

A hazard ratio of one means that there is no difference in survival between the two groups.

(Hazard ratio, NCI Dictionary)