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chance English

Meaning chance meaning

What does chance mean?
Definitions in simple English

chance Noun

— Something that can happen. We have the chance. — Something that is random; luck. Poker is a gamer of chance. — How much something is likely to be true. There is a 30% chance of rain tomorrow.

chance Verb

— If you chance upon something, you discovering it even though you were not looking for it. — If you chance something, you try it, even though it may not work.

chance

— noun (= opportunity) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington now is your chance — noun (= luck) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another bad luck caused his downfall we ran into each other by pure chance — adjective (= casual) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance seek help from casual passers-by a casual meeting a chance occurrence — noun a risk involving danger you take a chance when you let her drive — verb be the case by chance I chanced to meet my old friend in the street — noun (= probability) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5 — verb (= gamble, risk) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome When you buy these stocks you are gambling — noun (= prospect) the possibility of future success his prospects as a writer are excellent — verb (= find, happen) come upon, as if by accident; meet with We find this idea in Plato I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day

Synonyms chance synonyms

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chance English » English

opportunity luck occasion fortune accident hazard accidental possibility fate random probability risk fortuity casual happen fortuitous coincidence incident event destiny prospect opening odds occurrence adventitious accidence occurence venture lot likelihood instance incidental haphazard gamble contingent adventure take a chance hap fluke eventuality cue contingency case betide unplanned unexpectedly time take chances stray start

Topics chance topics

What do people use chance to talk about?
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Probably
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Cast lots
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Chance
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Destiny
Work and occupation Work Method

Opportunity
Grammar General words Do

Happen
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations Purpose

Without purpose
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Impossible
Language and thought Want Request

Agree to do something
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Uncertain
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods Unsure

Maybe

Conjugation chance conjugation

How do you conjugate chance?

chance · verb

Examples chance examples

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Simple sentences

Everyone deserves a second chance.
Give me a second chance.
Come on! Give me a chance.
The lost chance will never come again.
I met her by chance on a train.
The chance is gone.
Tom had no chance to express himself.
Tom thought he had a chance to win the race.
Tom didn't get a chance to thank Mary for all her help.
I gave Tom a chance to work with me.
It's my only chance.
This is your chance, Tom.
Any chance you know where I put my keys?
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.
You should make use of this chance.
You should take advantage of this chance.
Don't leave it up to chance.
I met her by chance.
By chance, I met her in the street.
By chance I met my ex-girlfriend in Portugal.
Don't throw away your chance.
It's a pity we didn't visit Tom when we had the chance.
You have a good chance to get well.
You should have taken a chance then.
I can do it if you give me a chance.
As long as you have hope, a chance remains.
Let's take a chance and go for broke.

Movie subtitles

Give me that chance.
They should have surrendered when they had the chance!
Wouldn't this be a good chance to get battle data on the Lancelot?
I texted everyone that we have to give Elder Price a chance.
Please give me one more chance!
Give me one more chance!
Please, if you just give me a chance? Elder!
If we don't find that, the chance of finding these tall, elegant, grey, ET guys is gonna be highly diminished.
Kepler's findings are crucial, because the more potential homes it finds, the better the chance life might exist outside our little Earth.
If you can check out a few million star systems, you have a really good chance of finding a signal from ET.
And if he's not, you got a better chance of winning.
Because of his EARNEST REQUEST! We decided to give you one more chance.
Are you going to Lee Seo Rim's burial site by any chance?
By any chance, have you not seen me before?
Fat chance!
Calm down! He won't have the chance anyway.
I'll chance it.
I agree this is our chance to expose the Blessed.
I hope you get the chance to bid them farewell.
Now's your chance.
I would relish the chance to meet with him.
If so, then I think there's a chance they might talk to us.
There's a chance I might be able to get some information out of him on this German musician.
Your best chance is to go to the station.
You have your chance of saving him. Will you be the bride of Erik, or do you prefer to watch your lover die?
Isn't the chance worth taking?
Did he tell you, by any chance, that you guys were friends?
That's your best chance of surviving.
We decided to give you one more chance.
Lady. By any chance, have you not seen me before?
Well, I'm. I'm gonna make sure you have a chance to say a proper goodbye, all right?
Larry, I think you have a chance to heal the world today in the simplest, most pure kind of way.
Even if we thaw that, we've got little chance of getting it to perfuse.
Kurt never had a chance.
Are we, by chance, going to the same meeting?
I never got the chance.
We've got to grab every chance she gets!
It's a chance to practise our public speaking and learn new things.

News and current affairs

It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
In late May, the international community will have a chance to begin implementing these ideas at the WHO World Health Assembly - a moment of hope for public health around the world.
It should give member states the chance to develop an approach to Europe that suits their national traditions, within the EU framework.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
Now we finally have a chance to break out of the downward spiral of economic decline.
Looking ahead to the post-Kyoto world offers us the chance to start a new dialogue and to look at new options on climate change.
In healthy ecosystems, when prey numbers decline, predators become malnourished, and their numbers decline, too, giving their prey a chance to recover.
But the buyback can succeed only if the market perceives it as the last chance before a unilateral debt restructuring.
By subjecting trade relations to embargoes, sanctions, and tests of democracy, environmental standards, and human rights, the League is likely to retard the growth of trade, and thus the chance for poor non-democracies to catch up.
Its compelling logic is precisely why there is little chance that such a reasonable proposal would ever be adopted.
What little chance there was of the US backing any global plan to limit or tax carbon emissions has disappeared.
In the case of Tamerlan, a talented boxer, he was denied the chance to become a champion because he was not yet a United States citizen.
America's advantages in the G-Zero world afford it the chance to invest in the future.
Closer to home, ASEAN's recent decision to give Burma a chance to chair the organization in 2014 underscores its neighbors' desire for the country's full participation in Asia's growing prosperity.
Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy.
Given the vast number of combinations of elements that can form compounds, there is a good chance that better superconductors await our discovery.
Until the eruption of the current scandal, the youngest of Murdoch's three children from his second marriage, James, was generally believed to stand the greatest chance of succeeding his father.
PARIS - By chance, it appears that the US Congress will decide on or around September 11 whether to endorse President Barack Obama's proposal to respond militarily to the Syrian government's use of poison gas against civilians.
If they stay on the tried and tested path of those who have gone before, there is every chance that I will.
The best chance to end cotton subsidies soon was lost last December, when African countries, aided by India and Brazil, pressed hard for the elimination of cotton subsidies, at the World Trade Organization's meeting in Hong Kong.
The only chance to end cotton subsidies is now somehow to convince US and EU leaders to assist African peasants by curtailing payments to their own cotton farmers.
The unilateral overstretching of American power offers a chance for a new beginning in US-European relations.
The chance of seeing exchange rates near the IMF values any time soon is slim.
It has no chance to shine.
For the Alliance of Civilizations to have any chance of success, the emphasis must be on reciprocity.

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