Associations to the word «Danger»

Pictures for the word «Danger»

Wiktionary

DANGER, noun. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
DANGER, noun. (obsolete) Liability.
DANGER, noun. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
DANGER, noun. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
DANGER, noun. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
DANGER, noun. Exposure to liable harm.
DANGER, noun. An instance or cause of liable harm.
DANGER, noun. Mischief.
DANGER, verb. (obsolete) To claim liability.
DANGER, verb. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
DANGER, verb. (obsolete) To run the risk.
DANGER AREA, noun. (air traffic control) an airspace within which it is dangerous for aircraft to fly.
DANGER AREA, noun. (cricket) A rectangular protected area of the pitch on which bowlers may not run in their follow through so as to avoid damage.
DANGER PAY, noun. Extra payment given to anybody, civilian or soldier, who is employed in a situation where the working conditions or locale are considered to be hazardous.
DANGER SPACE, noun. (military) The areas between a weapon and its target in which the trajectory is not greater than the typical height of a human (about 1.8 meters)
DANGER SPACE, noun. (military) The area or space around the target of a missile in which it has a probability of landing or exploding
DANGER SPACE, noun. (medicine) A region of the neck bounded by the skull base, alar fascia and prevertebral fascia, from which an infection can spread directly to the thorax.
DANGER SPACES, noun. Plural of danger space
DANGER ZONE, noun. A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines
DANGER ZONE, noun. (figuratively) the genitals
DANGER ZONES, noun. Plural of danger zone

Dictionary definition

DANGER, noun. The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease".
DANGER, noun. A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing".
DANGER, noun. A cause of pain or injury or loss; "he feared the dangers of traveling by air".
DANGER, noun. A dangerous place; "He moved out of danger".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis