The difference between Hazard and Stake
When used as nouns, hazard means a type of game played with dice, whereas stake means a piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
When used as verbs, hazard means to expose to chance, whereas stake means to fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hazard and Stake
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Hazard as a noun (historical):
A type of game played with dice.
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Hazard as a noun:
Chance.
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Hazard as a noun:
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
Examples:
"He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life."
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Hazard as a noun:
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
Examples:
"The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards."
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Hazard as a noun (golf):
A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
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Hazard as a noun (billiards):
The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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Hazard as a noun (obsolete):
Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
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Hazard as a noun (tennis):
The side of the court into which the ball is served.
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Hazard as a noun (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.
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Hazard as a verb:
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
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Hazard as a verb:
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
Examples:
"I'll hazard a guess."
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Stake as a noun:
A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
Examples:
"We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders."
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Stake as a noun (croquet):
A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
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Stake as a noun:
A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
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Stake as a noun:
The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
Examples:
"Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake."
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Stake as a noun:
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
Examples:
"The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business."
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Stake as a noun:
That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
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Stake as a noun:
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
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Stake as a noun (Mormonism):
A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
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Stake as a verb (transitive):
To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
Examples:
"to stake vines or plants"
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Stake as a verb (transitive):
To pierce or wound with a stake.
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Stake as a verb (transitive):
To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
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Stake as a verb (transitive):
To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
Examples:
"John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him."
"His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started."