different between hazard vs speculation

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)

1. 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.
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]

3. (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.
4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7. Chance. [from 16th c.]
8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. (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

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Verb

hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)

1. 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.

2. 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

1. gambling
2. risk, gamble

Declension

References

French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800

Italian

Noun

hazard m (invariable)

1. hazard lights (on a vehicle)

Middle French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. 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

1. (singular only) gambling
2. (electronics) race condition

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French hasard.

Noun

hazard n (plural hazarduri)

1. hazard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?zard/
• Hyphenation: ha?zard

Noun

hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. gamble, gambling
2. risk, hazard

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin specul?ti?, specul?ti?nem, from Latin speculor.Morphologically speculate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kj??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: spec?u?la?tion

Noun

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

1. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
   • 2012, Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby (in The Guardian, 3 December 2012)[1]

     The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.

2. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
3. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
4. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
5. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

     Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.

   • 1883, Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy

     Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.

6. Examination by the eye; view.
7. (obsolete) Power of sight.
8. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
9. (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:supposition

Derived terms

• "on speculation" (on spec) Creating a work with the hope of selling it, as opposed to creating a work "on commission" for hire.

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Anagrams

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