Hazard vs. Harm — What's the Difference?

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.

Harm is a moral and legal concept. Bernard Gert construes harm as any of the following: pain death disability loss of ability or freedom loss of pleasure.Joel Feinberg gives an account of harm as setbacks to interests.

A chance of being injured or harmed

Physical or psychological damage or injury

Risk or danger

Immoral or unjust effects

A possible source of danger

To do harm to

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

Physical injury; hurt; damage

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

Emotional or figurative hurt

(Archaic) Chance or an accident.

Detriment; misfortune.

To expose to danger or risk.

That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

To venture (something)

To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

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

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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

That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

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

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

(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.

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

The occurrence of a change for the worse

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

The act of damaging something or someone

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

Cause or do harm to;

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;