hazard

Betekenis (Engels)

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
3. An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. 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. The side of the court into which the ball is served.
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.

risico

riskeren

toevalligheid

gewaagdheid

waagstuk

risico lopen

op het spel zetten

kans lopen

zich vermetelen

risqueren

risico’s

run a risk

take chances

be audacious

harm and danger

risk safety

hazard rate

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈhæ.zɚd/

From 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.