Hazard vs Null - What's the difference?
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(historical) A type of game played with dice.
Chance.
* , Richard III , act 5, scene 4:
* 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian :
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
* (rfdate) Rogers:
* 1599 , Wm. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar :
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An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
(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:
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
* (rfdate) John Clarke
* (rfdate) Fuller
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Landor
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between hazard and null
is that hazard is (historical) a type of game played with dice while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb hazard
is to expose to chance; to take a risk.hazard
English
(wikipedia hazard)Noun
(en noun)- I will stand the hazard of the die.
- I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
- He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard .
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard .
citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:
- Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards , snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
- The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards .
- your latter hazard
Derived terms
* biohazard * chemical hazard * haphazard * hazardous * moral hazard * multihazard * occupational hazardVerb
(en verb)- Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
- He hazards his neck to the halter.
- I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
- They hazard to cut their feet.
- I'll hazard a guess.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.