Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. haz·ard (hăz′ərd) n. 1. a. A chance of being injured or harmed: Space travel is full of hazards. b. Risk or dange
sometimes a par is a good score and you have to walk off and forget about the bads and focus about the shot you have in front of you." Park had to shake off a couple of mis-cues to stay in contention, including a double-bogey at the ninth where she drove into a lateral hazard....
Danger; hazard; peril. In a criminal action, the danger of conviction and punishment confronting the defendant. A person is in jeopardy when he or she is placed on trial before a court of competent jurisdiction upon an indictment or information sufficient in form and substance to uphold a conv...
1a mode of original acquisition of property. It is done by taking a thing, intending to be its owner. Ownership of wild animals is obtained in this way, a hunter becoming the owner of wild animals killed and taken. Goods lost, abandoned and ownerless (calledbona vacantia)fall to the Crow...
cauliflower ear a thickened and deformed ear caused by accumulation of fluid and blood clots in the tissue after repeated injury; it is most often seen in boxers, for whom it is almost an occupational hazard. The ear will not recover its normal shape but can be restored to normal by plasti...
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First, the definition of “early” is relative, according to natural hazard typology and speed of onset. From this we could assess whether or not the original sense of EWSs targeting actions well in advance has become irrelevant, but also whether current EWSs are already late by definition. ...
its probability of hitting Earth is thought to be near zero. The collision of a sufficiently large NEA with Earth is generally recognized to pose a great potential danger to human beings and possibly to all life on the planet. For a detailed discussion of this topic,seeEarth impact hazard. ...
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