chance
chans
- n a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
now is your chance - n an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
we ran into each other by pure chance - n a risk involving danger
you take a chance when you let her drive - n 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
- n the possibility of future success
- v be the case by chance
I chanced to meet my old friend in the street - v take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- v come upon, as if by accident; meet with
She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day - s occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
a chance occurrence
- Anti-doping expert Werner Franke discusses whether clean athletes can ever really compete with cheaters, and the chances of catching a doper.
- As for the Japanese public, they will have the chance to make up their own minds about the film if The Cove is released in theaters after the festival.
- It is chance music in which nothing is left to chance -- as Cage eventually realized.