DICTOMETER

CHANCES

1. Synonyms:
   • Opportunity
   • Chance
   Definitions:
   • a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
   Examples:
   • The holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington
   • Now is your chance
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Luck
   • Fortune
   • Chance
   • Hazard
   Definitions:
   • an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
   Examples:
   • Bad luck caused his downfall
   • We ran into each other by pure chance
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Chance
   Definitions:
   • a risk involving danger
   Examples:
   • You take a chance when you let her drive
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Probability
   • Chance
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Examples:
   • The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Prospect
   • Chance
   Definitions:
   • the possibility of future success
   Examples:
   • His prospects as a writer are excellent
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Chance
   Definitions:
   • be the case by chance
   Examples:
   • I chanced to meet my old friend in the street
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Gamble
   • Chance
   • Risk
   • Hazard
   • Take chances
   • Adventure
   • Run a risk
   • Take a chance
   Definitions:
   • take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
   Examples:
   • When you buy these stocks you are gambling
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Find
   • Happen
   • Chance
   • Bump
   • Encounter
   Definitions:
   • come upon, as if by accident
   • meet with
   Examples:
   • 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