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Noun chance has 4 senses
- opportunity, chance - a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
--1 is a kind of possibility, possibleness
--1 has particulars:
- luck, fortune, chance, hazard - 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"
--2 is a kind of phenomenon
--2 has particulars:
- chance - a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
--3 is a kind of risk, peril, danger
- probability, chance - a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning"
--4 is a kind of measure, quantity, amount
--4 has particulars:
Verb chance has 3 senses
- chance - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
--1 is one way to happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance - take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
--2 is one way to try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- find, happen, chance, bump, encounter - 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"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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