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Verb
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chances, plural;
  1. Do something by accident or without design
    • - if they chanced to meet
  2. Find or see by accident
    • - he chanced upon an interesting advertisement
  3. Do (something) despite its being dangerous or of uncertain outcome
    • - she waited a few seconds and chanced another look
Noun
  1. A possibility of something happening
    • - a chance of victory
    • - there is little chance of his finding a job
  2. The probability of something happening
    • - he played down his chances of becoming chairman
  3. An opportunity to do or achieve something
    • - I gave her a chance to answer
  4. A ticket in a raffle or lottery

  5. An opportunity to make a defensive play, which if missed counts as an error
    • - 541 straight chances without an error
  6. The occurrence and development of events in the absence of any obvious design
    • - he met his brother by chance
    • - what a lucky chance that you are here
  7. The unplanned and unpredictable course of events regarded as a power
    • - chance was offering me success
  1. (chance) opportunity: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
  2. (chance) be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
  3. (chance) casual: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
  4. (chance) gamble: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
  5. (chance) 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"
  6. (chance) a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
  7. Chances was an Australian evening soap opera, produced from 1991 to 1992. It told the story of the average middle-class Taylor family whose lives are transformed by winning $3 million in the lottery. The series was broadcast by the Nine Network, initially as two one-hour episodes each week.
  8. Chances is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Jill Barber, released October 14, 2008 on Outside Music.. ChartAttack, September 11, 2008.
  9. "Chances" is the title of a song written by Greg Wattenberg and John Ondrasik, and recorded by Ondrasik under his stage name Five for Fighting. The song was released on July 21, 2009 as the first single from the band's 2009 album, Slice. ...
  10. Chances is a 1981 novel by Jackie Collins and is the first novel in The Santangelo Novels series. The novel has three focal points, two of them focusing on the main characters of the novel and a third during the New York City blackout of 1977.
  11. "Chances" is a single from the Roxette album Look Sharp!. It was only released in a few countries in Europe.
  12. Chances is the debut album by Belgian vocal trance group Sylver. Their debut single, titled "Turn the Tide," climbed to the top of the official local club/dance chart soon after its release. After the success of their first single, "Skin" followed in January 2001. ...
  13. The Chances is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher. It was one of Fletcher's great popular successes, "frequently performed and reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
  14. (chance) An opportunity or possibility; Random occurrence; luck; The probability of something happening; To happen by chance, to occur; To try or risk; To discover something by chance; happening by chance, casual
  15. (Chance) A male given name, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance
  16. (chance) a choreographic process in which movements are chosen at random or randomly structured to create a movement sequence or a dance.
  17. (Chance) A National Weather Service precipitation descriptor for 30, 40, or 50 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch). When the precipitation is convective in nature, the term scattered is used. See Precipitation Probability (PoP).
  18. (chance) the characteristic of lacking any discernible pattern or direction, with more than one outcome being possible in a given set of circumstances.
  19. (Chance) Being undetermined.  Events without apparent cause.  An accidental happening.
  20. (Chance) the probability of an event happening, usually expressed as a percent
  21. (1. chance) سنجوگ ۔ اتفاق ۔ عارضہ
  22. (CHANCE) A situation in which something happens unpredictably without discernable human intention or observable cause.
  23. (CHANCE) accident. As the law punishes a crime only when there is an intention to commit it, it follows that when those acts are done in a lawful business or pursuit by mere chance or accident, which would have been criminal if there had been an intention, express or implied, to commit them, ...
  24. (Chance) (Luk 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. ...
  25. (Chance) A logging show or operation