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eventuality
English
Etymology
eventual +? -ity
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æl?ti
Noun
eventuality (countable and uncountable, plural eventualities)
- A possible event; something that may happen. [from 19th c.]
- (phrenology) An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms
- (possible event): contingency
Translations
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hazard
English
Etymology
From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), probably from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hæz?d/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?haz?d/
Noun
hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
- (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.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (chance of suffering harm): adventure
- (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- a. 1676, John Clarke, Excuses of the Irreligious
- o be consistent , you ought to be a Chriftian in temper and practice ; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- He hazards his neck to the halter.
- a. 1676, John Clarke, Excuses of the Irreligious
- To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
- They hazard to cut their feet.
- I'll hazard a guess.
Translations
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?azart/
Noun
hazard m
- gambling
- risk, gamble
Declension
References
French
Noun
hazard m (plural hazards)
- Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800
Italian
Noun
hazard m (invariable)
- hazard lights (on a vehicle)
Middle French
Noun
hazard m (plural hazards)
- hazard; obstacle
Descendants
- French: hasard
Polish
Etymology
From French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa.zart/
Noun
hazard m inan
- (singular only) gambling
- (electronics) race condition
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From French hasard.
Noun
hazard n (plural hazarduri)
- hazard
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /x?zard/
- Hyphenation: ha?zard
Noun
hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- gamble, gambling
- risk, hazard
Declension
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