What is hazard mean?
2007-03-03 21:50:52 · 15 answers · asked by Shali 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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2007-03-03 21:57:37 · update #1
hazard means danger. Next time, do us all a favor and look up the words in the dictionary. Especially very easy ones like the one you just asked.
2007-03-03 21:54:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I suggest if you don't know the meaning of a word you should look it up in a dictionary. It is a great way of expanding your vocabulary and your general knowledge.
Hazard as a noun ;Potential danger, Dangerous or unwanted outcome (especially as a result of failure of an engineered system),In gambling - a dice game similar to craps, An obstacle on a golf course(natural or constructed - eg lake or sand bunker), In the game of Real Tennis - the receiver's side of the court,In billiards - a scoring stroke.
Hazard as a verb - To suggest tentatively - As in the sentence "Would anyone like to hazard a guess at the meaning of this?"
or To Risk the loss of something (especially in order to gain something else.
The word hazard in English comes fromOld French around the 13th Century from a game with dice called "hasard" which was taken from the Arabic "az-zahr" meaning "the dice" or "the chance"
I never read a word I don't know without looking up the meaning(if I can remember).
2007-03-03 22:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by coffee 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hazard may mean:
Dangers, risks, problems.
A hazard is a source of potential harm.
A hazard has three modes:
Dormant (there are no people around; there is no risk)
Armed (there is a person or people in the vicinity; there is risk)
Active (human reaction time is too slow to combat the effect of the hazard; it is too late to prevent the conseqences of the hazard)
Read more on Hazard at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard
2007-03-07 21:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by _ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hazard can be a danger or an obstacle.
For example:
Smoking is a health hazard. (Hazard as a noun..)
He was driving hazardously and was stopped by the police (...as an adverb...)
Smoking is hazardous to your health (...and as an adjective)
It can also refer to something which isn't necessarily dangerous, but is an obstacle to an objective. For example....
A water "hazard" in golf., like a lake.
The large number of fake paintings is one of the "hazards" of investing in art.
Getting stupid answers is one of the hazards of asking questions on Yahoo Answers.
2007-03-04 01:01:21 · answer #4 · answered by Stealthbong 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Danger
2007-03-03 21:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A danger. A risk. Obstacle on Golf course
(that out of the English Dictionary.
2007-03-03 22:05:36 · answer #6 · answered by Minxy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A Danger or a Risk
2007-03-03 21:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by Harry Potter 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Something potentially dangerous (whereas risk is the likelihood of the hazard taking place)
2007-03-03 21:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
2007-03-03 21:54:56 · answer #9 · answered by Balaji S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means danger.
2007-03-03 21:54:24 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ Chelsea Blue ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋