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Qué (quién) es chance - definición
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Chance (movie); Chance!; Chance (disambiguation); Chanced; Chance! (disambiguation); Chance (song); Chance! (song); Chance (album); Chance (novel); Chance (film)
chance
(chances, chancing, chanced)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen.
Do you think they have a chance of beating Australia?...
This partnership has a good chance of success...
The specialist who carried out the brain scan thought Tim's chances of survival were still slim...
There was really very little chance that Ben would ever have led a normal life.
N-VAR: oft N of -ing/n, N that
2.
If you have a chance to do something, you have the opportunity to do it.
The electoral council announced that all eligible people would get a chance to vote...
I felt I had to give him a chance.
N-COUNT: usu N to-inf, N for n to-inf
3.
A chance meeting or event is one that is not planned or expected.
...a chance meeting.
ADJ: ADJ n
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Chance is also a noun.
...a victim of chance and circumstance.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you chance to do something or chance on something, you do it or find it although you had not planned or tried to. (FORMAL)
It was just then that I chanced to look round.
...Christopher Columbus, who chanced upon the Dominican Republic nearly 500 years ago.
VERB: V to-inf, V upon/on/across n
5.
If you chance something, you do it even though there is a risk that you may not succeed or that something bad may happen.
Andy knew the risks. I cannot believe he would have chanced it...
He decided no assassin would chance a shot from amongst that crowd.
= risk
VERB: V it, V n
6.
see also off-chance
7.
Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
He had met Mr Maude by chance.
PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR with cl
8.
You can use by any chance when you are asking questions in order to find out whether something that you think might be true is actually true.
Are they by any chance related?
= perhaps
PHRASE: PHR with cl (not first in cl)
9.
If you say that someone stands a chance of achieving something, you mean that they are likely to achieve it. If you say that someone doesn't stand a chance of achieving something, you mean that they cannot possibly achieve it.
Being very good at science subjects, I stood a good chance of gaining high grades...
Neither is seen as standing any chance of snatching the leadership from him.
PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR of -ing
10.
When you take a chance, you try to do something although there is a large risk of danger or failure.
You take a chance on the weather if you holiday in the UK...
From then on, they were taking no chances...
PHRASE: V and N inflect
chance
I. n.
1.
Accident, hap, fortuity, fortune, luck.
2.
Possibility, contingency.
3.
Opportunity, occasion, opening.
4.
Uncertainty, contingency, fortuity.
5.
Fortuitous event, piece of luck, stroke of good luck.
6.
Risk, hazard, peril, jeopardy.
II. v. n.
Happen, occur, befall, betide, take place, fall out, turn up, come to pass.
Chance
·adv By chance; perchance.
II. Chance ·adj Happening by chance; casual.
III. Chance ·noun Probability.
IV. Chance ·noun The operation or activity of such agent.
V. Chance ·vt To Befall; to happen to.
VI. Chance ·vi To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
VII. Chance ·vt To take the chances of; to venture upon;
- usually with it as object.
VIII. Chance ·noun A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate;
- in this sense often personified.
IX. Chance ·noun A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity;
- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
X. Chance ·noun The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
Ejemplos de uso de chance
1. "Our party stands for giving people a fair chance and giving them a second chance." A second chance?
2. "This is not our last chance, but it is our one big chance."
3. "Maybe girls like this need a chance, a different kind of chance," he said.
4. He is to get another chance at life, what chance did his poor victim have?
5. The National Weather Service is predicting a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon and a 30 percent chance of rain.