Biohazard vs. Hazard — What's the Difference?

A biological agent, such as an infectious microorganism, or a condition that constitutes a threat to humans, especially in biological research or experimentation.

A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would allow them, even just theoretically, to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value.

The potential danger, risk, or harm from exposure to such an agent or condition.

A chance of being injured or harmed

A biological hazard; a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.

Risk or danger

Hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions

A possible source of danger

Any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare

(Games) A game played with dice that is a forerunner of craps and was especially popular in England in the 1600s and 1700s.

(Sports) An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.

(Archaic) Chance or an accident.

To expose to danger or risk.

To venture (something)

To express at the risk of denial, criticism, or censure

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.

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

(golf) A 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).

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

Chance.

(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.

(programming) 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.

To expose to chance; to take a risk.

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

A game of chance played with dice.

The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.

Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.

To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.

To venture to incur, or bring on.

To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

An obstacle on a golf course

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;

Put at risk;

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;