Fault vs Hazard - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fault and hazard

is that fault is a defect; something that detracts from perfection while hazard is a type of game played with dice.

As verbs the difference between fault and hazard

is that fault is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone while hazard is to expose to chance; to take a risk.

fault

English

Noun

(en noun)

A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

* Shakespeare

As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault .

A mistake or error.

No!. This is my fault, not yours

A weakness of character; a failing.

For all her faults , she's a good person at heart.

A minor offense.

Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

The fault lies with you.

(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.

slate fault''', dirt '''fault , etc.

(Raymond)

(tennis) An illegal serve.

(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.

(obsolete) want; lack

* Shakespeare

one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend

(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

* Shakespeare

Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.

Derived terms

* at fault * double fault * to a fault

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

* Traditional song

For that I will not fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.

(geology) To fracture.

To commit a mistake or error.

(computing) To undergo a page fault.

* 2002 , Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration

When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

hazard

English

(wikipedia hazard)

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) A type of game played with dice.

Chance.

* , Richard III , act 5, scene 4:

I will stand the hazard of the die.

* 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian :

I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

* (rfdate) Rogers:

Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard .

* 1599 , Wm. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar :

Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard .

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* 2009 December 27, Barbara Ellen, The Guardian :

Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards , snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.

An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards .

(golf) 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 ).

Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare:

your latter hazard

Derived terms

* biohazard * chemical hazard * haphazard * hazardous * moral hazard * multihazard * occupational hazard

Verb

(en verb)

To expose to chance; to take a risk.

* (rfdate) John Clarke

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.

* (rfdate) Fuller

He hazards his neck to the halter.

To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.

* (rfdate) Landor

They hazard to cut their feet.

I'll hazard a guess.