Hazard vs Offing - 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
(nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
*1610', , ''Purchas His Pilgrimes ,
*:I came to an Anchor in seven fathomes water in the offing to Sea.
* 1719 ,
*1851 ,
(nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
* 1719 ,
* 1768-71', published '''1893 ,
*:However, what with the help of this Ebb, and our Boats, we by Noon had got an Offing of 1 1/2 or 2 Miles, yet we could hardly flatter ourselves with hopes of getting Clear…
*1846 ,
*:We beat off shore during the whole of the night, when the weather moderated, and at daybreak we found out that we had not gained much offing , in consequence of the current…
(figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing .
As nouns the difference between hazard and offing
is that hazard is (historical) a type of game played with dice while offing is (nautical) the area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.As verbs the difference between hazard and offing
is that hazard is to expose to chance; to take a risk while offing is .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.
offing
English
Noun
(en noun)p84
- I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing , came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called The Island of Despair ; all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead.
- That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.
- …I saw the land run out a great length into the sea, at about the distance of four or five leagues before me; and the sea being very calm, I kept a large offing to make this point.
