Contaminant vs Hazard - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between contaminant and hazard is that contaminant is that which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter while hazard is (historical) a type of game played with dice. As a verb hazard is to expose to chance; to take a risk.
contaminant English
Noun
( en noun)
That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
- Keep the lid on the jar to keep contaminants out.
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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.
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