Precursor vs Hazard - What's the difference?
precursor | hazard |
That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.
(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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, chapter=1 * 2009 December 27, Barbara Ellen, The Guardian :
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
As nouns the difference between precursor and hazard
is that precursor is that which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events while hazard is (historical) a type of game played with dice.As a verb hazard is
to expose to chance; to take a risk.precursor
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Alternative forms
* (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Anagrams
* ----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.