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Meaning of chance
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chance
adj 1: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek
help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a
chance occurrence" [syn: {casual}, {chance(a)}]
n 1: a possibility due to a favorable combination of
circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to
visit Washington"; "now is your chance" [syn:
{opportunity}, {chance}]
2: 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" [syn:
{luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}]
3: a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her
drive"
4: 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" [syn: {probability},
{chance}]
5: the possibility of future success; "his prospects as a writer
are excellent" [syn: {prospect}, {chance}]
v 1: be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in
the street"
2: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy
these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance},
{risk}, {hazard}, {take chances}, {adventure}, {run a risk},
{take a chance}]
3: 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" [syn: {find}, {happen},
{chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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