hazard
part of speech
noun (a hazard, hazards); verb (hazard, hazards, hazarded, hazarding — formal)
meaning for a pupil
1) A hazard is something that could hurt you or cause damage, a danger. tree →
2) To hazard a guess means to make a guess when you are not sure. tree →
3) "At all hazards" means whatever the risk or cost, no matter what happens. tree →
sense in the lessons
In safety lessons, pupils spot hazards at home, at school, on the road and in the science lab: wet floors, sharp objects, hot liquids, chemicals, electricity, traffic. Hazard signs and symbols (often yellow triangles) warn of danger. «Hazard lights» on a car flash to warn other drivers. In golf, a hazard is a sand trap or water. Phrases: fire hazard, health hazard, safety hazard, hazard warning, hazard a guess.
examples
- A wet floor is a hazard, so walk carefully. tree →
- Toys left on the stairs are a trip hazard. tree →
- Piles of paper near a heater are a fire hazard. tree →
- Smoking is a hazard to your health. tree →
- The yellow sign on the bottle shows it is a chemical hazard. tree →
- The car stopped with its hazard lights flashing. tree →
- I don't know the answer, but I'll hazard a guess. tree →
- All at once she remembered that it would be death to this poor officer if he lost the letter, and that at all hazards she must put it back again. tree →
note
Countable: hazards. Adjective: «hazardous» (dangerous). A hazard is the thing that could hurt you; a «risk» is how likely it is to hurt you. The verb is mostly used in «hazard a guess».
In the corpora
- Warning signs on a bottle, like a hazard symbol, mean the product can harm you.
- A loose eye or button on a soft toy is a choking hazard; an adult should sew it on or remove it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hazard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.