(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
(n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
(n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
(n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(5) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(6) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(7) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(8) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(9) As for workers potentially exposed to selected chemical hazards, the first survey provides no consistent evidence that such workers were more likely to receive exposure-specific tests than other workers.
(10) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(12) The purification and concentration of these viruses in their monomeric forms is hazardous when conventional "tube" rotors are used since they invariably result in dissociation and aggregation of the virus particles.
(13) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
(16) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(17) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(18) Unvaccinated children had a mortality hazard ratio of 3.0 compared with vaccinated children (P = .002), indicating a protective efficacy against death of 66% (CI 32%-83%) of measles vaccination.
(19) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(20) Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards were carried out in a typical case where chromium was the major pollutant.
Offing
Definition:
(n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(2) Instead a banally labelled Office for Students (OfS) is to be created.
(3) Existing systems use traditional programming techniques to create conventional "frame-based" instruction, but more intelligent authoring aids are in the offing Even though the technology is advancing rapidly many of the evaluation methods and measurement problems discussed here can still be presumed to apply.
(4) Speculation swirled throughout Wednesday that an evacuation mission was in the offing.
(5) Indeed, in the modern context, it is not hard to see how a crashed financial market might be viewed as a powerful suggestion that party leaders are losing heaven’s favour and their own legitimacy, and, worse, that a new dynastic cycle may be in the offing.
(6) From the four major laboratories dealing with the population of the OFS all cytological reports of one randomly chosen working day per month in 1985 were analysed for three demographic variables: age, race, and locality according to census district.
(7) The reaction of the crowd signalled a development that has been in the offing for a while.
(8) The building, which sits in the shadow of Caernarfon castle and the city walls, was built in 1283 by Edward I shortly after he’d offed Llywelyn and occupied Wales.
(9) They rose yesterday when it looked like a deal was in the offing and have now closed down after dipping in and out of positive territory for much of the day.
(10) "More bobbing, weaving, and slippery behaviour is no doubt in the offing.
(11) There are two expensive aircraft carriers in the offing.
(12) It ensures that, while overseas investors are joining us, the heart and soul of the club remains in south London.” The deal has been long in the offing, with Palace manager Alan Pardew saying this week that investment was on the agenda when he agreed to take charge of Palace in January.
(13) A crucial kit deal, worth up to $1bn (£600m), remains in the offing – although sources close to the process have latterly betrayed frustration with United's hardline negotiating stance.
(14) O’Neill is keen to play the pragmatist, insisting third place and a play-off remains his primary objective, but he also had a feeling that a big result was in the offing in Athens.
(15) With an election in the offing, and the Tories making much of the running on bank bonuses, Brown needs to shrug off his reputation as the staunch defender of the City, and show that he "gets" the public's fury about the activities of the banks.
(16) Post Jol, Berbatov's future looks uncertain, with a January move in the offing.
(17) Acceptable figures were virtually limited to Bloemfontein, predominantly in white patients, while three-quarters of the population of the OFS is black.
(18) In this case the OfS will probably end up looking too much like Hefce for the taste of ministers, and too little for those who object to the (even greater) politicisation of our universities.
(19) Locals own the highest number of electric cars per capita in Denmark , and are often champing at the bit to get involved in the next green project in the offing, says Hermansen.
(20) With a possible swine flu pandemic in the offing, the "vaccine strategy" required is critical, particularly as the medical and public health communities in the United States embark on the first systematic attempt in history to blunt preemptively the impact of a pandemic.