Meaning

• Noun

  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.

• Verb