hazard vs shipwreck

hazard

noun
  • The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. 

  • An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. 

  • A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results. 

  • The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). 

  • A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. 

  • Chance. 

  • An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. 

  • The side of the court into which the ball is served. 

  • A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. 

verb
  • To expose to chance; to take a risk. 

  • To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. 

shipwreck

noun
  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

  • A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 

verb
  • To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. 

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