Chance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An opportunity or possibility.

   “We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.”

2. isim Random occurrence; luck.

   “Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?”

3. isim The probability of something happening.

   “There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.”

4. isim probability; possibility.

   “Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again.”

5. isim What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

   “But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up.”

6. sıfat Happening by chance, casual.

   “No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.”

7. zarf Perchance; perhaps.
8. fiil To happen by chance, to occur.

   “It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.”

9. fiil To befall; to happen to.

   “[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]”

10. fiil To try or risk.

    “Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?”

11. fiil To discover something by chance.

    “He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.”

12. fiil To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

    “The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.”

13. fiil To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
14. özel isim An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
15. özel isim A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
16. özel isim A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
17. özel isim An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
18. özel isim An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
19. özel isim A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
20. özel isim A surname.