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Definition: Chance |
ChanceAdjective1. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence". Noun1. A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance". 2. 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". 3. A risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive". 4. A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning". Verb1. Be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street". 2. Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling". 3. Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Chance" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a chance". |
Date "chance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Chance \Chance\ (ch[.a]ns), noun. [French chance, Old French cheance, from Late Latin cadentia a allusion to the falling of the dice), from Latin cadere to fall; akin to Sanskrit [,c]ad to fall, Latin cedere to yield, English cede. Compare to Cadence.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Chance (Luke 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. sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no "chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another (1 Sam. 6:9; Eccl. 9:11). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Any unit of operation in the forest, with particular reference to its topographical characteristics, e. g. logging chance(logging show), gravity chance(where logging is facilitated by natural slope), pump chance(where the water situation permits the use of power pumps for fire control). Source: European Union. (references) |
| The ease or difficulty of logging a certain area. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Chance (See Main Chance .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. In coal mining, the opportunity a shot has to break the coal. (references) |
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Chance is a town located in Somerset County, Maryland. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 377.Geography
Chance is located at 38°10'37" North, 75°56'21" West (38.176818, -75.939272)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²). 4.5 km² (1.7 mi²) of it is land and 2.2 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 32.68% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 377 people, 161 households, and 113 families residing in the town. The population density is 84.1/km² (218.1/mi²). There are 254 housing units at an average density of 56.7/km² (147.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 75.60% White, 23.61% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races. 0.53% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 161 households out of which 17.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% are married couples living together, 12.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.2% are non-families. 23.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.34 and the average family size is 2.74. In the town the population is spread out with 18.8% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 29.7% from 45 to 64, and 22.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 47 years. For every 100 females there are 93.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $34,531, and the median income for a family is $37,969. Males have a median income of $25,469 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,706. 23.2% of the population and 16.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 51.9% are under the age of 18 and 14.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chance, Maryland."
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In ordinary language, the word random is used to express apparent lack of purpose or cause.Randomness should also not be confused with unpredictability, as demonstrated by the existence of deterministic chaos. As another example, the increase of the world human population is quite predictable, but individual births and deaths cannot be accurately predicted in many cases; this small-scale randomness is found in almost all real-world systems, if not as strikingly. Ohm's Law and the Kinetic Theory of Gases also depend on large-scale compliance with statistical rules which have no absolute reality.
Defining randomness is a hard problem in modern science, mathematics, psychology and philosophy.
Randomness in philosophy
Note that the bias that "everything has a purpose or cause" is actually implicit in the expression "apparent lack of purpose or cause". Humans are always looking for patterns in their experience, and the most basic pattern seems to be cause/effect. This appears to be deeply embedded in the human brain, and perhaps in other animals as well. For example, dogs and cats often have been reported to have apparently made a cause and effect connection that strikes us as amusing or peculiar. For instance there is a report of a dog who, after a visit to a vet whose clinic had tile floors of a particular kind, refused thereafter to go near such a tiled floor, whether or not it was at a vet's.
It is because of this bias that the absence of a cause seems problematic. See causation .
To solve this 'problem', random events are sometimes said to be caused by chance. Rather than solving the problem of randomness, this opens the gaping hole of the ontological status of chance. It is hard to avoid circularity by defining chance in terms of randomness.
Randomness in natural science
Traditionally, randomness takes on an operational meaning in natural science: something is apparently random if its cause cannot be determined or controlled. When an experiment is performed and all the control variables are fixed, the remaining variation is ascribed to uncontrolled (ie, 'random') influences. The assumption, again, is that if it were somehow possible to perfectly control all influences, the result of the experiment would be always the same. Therefore, for most of the history of science, randomness has been interpreted in one way or another as ignorance on the part of the observer.
With the advent of quantum mechanics, however, it appears that the world might be irreducibly random. According to the standard interpretations of the theory, it is possible (and in fact very, very easy) to set up an experiment with total control of all relevant parameters, which will still have a perfectly random outcome. The resistance to this idea takes the form of hidden variable theories in which the outcome of the experiment is determined by certain unobservable characteristics (hence the name "hidden variables").
Many physical processes resulting from quantum-mechanical effects are, therefore, believed to be irreducibly random. The best-known example is the timing of radioactive decay events in radioactive substances.
Randomness in mathematics
The mathematical theory of probability arose from attempts to formulate mathematical descriptions of chance events, originally in the context of gambling but soon in connection with situations of interest in physics. Statistics is used to deduce the underlying probability distribution of a collection of empirical observations.
For the purposes of simulation it is necessary to have a large supply of random numbers, or means to generate them on demand. Algorithmic information theory studies, among other topics, what constitutes a random sequence.
Randomness in practical communications
Access to a source of high-quality randomness is absolutely critical in many applications of cryptography. For example, even a subtly non-random key choice may result in a complete break into a communications channel that was believed to have been secure and was relied upon to be so. See the Enigma article for an example of the consequences of such a misestimate. Keys used for the Enigma were non-random in many cases which made it possible for Allied cryptanalysts to break into the traffic with substantial consequences for the Nazi war effort. A similar thing happened in the Pacific theater of WWII with the Japanese 'Purple' machine (qv); its key selection was also insufficiently random.
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Randomness is central to games of chance and vital to the gambling industry. The book The Eudaemonic Pie (ISBN 0595142362) is the story of an attempt to exploit non-randomness in the gaming industry. Some of the students involved have gone on to significant careers in physics and in computer science.
Random draws are often used to make a decision where no rational or fair basis exists for making a deterministic decision.
Deviations from randomness are often regarded by parapsychologists as evidence for the theories of parapsychology.
Quotations:
Books:
- "Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random." -- Donald E. Knuth
See also:
- Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett. Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 0674107454
- The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd ed. by Donald E. Knuth, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0-201-89684-2
External links:
- Chaos theory
- Determinism
- Free will
- Game theory
- Information entropy
- Probability theory
- Pseudorandomness
- Pseudorandom number generator
- Hardware random number generator
- Quantum mechanics
- Random variable
- Random number
- Random sequence
- Stochastic process
- Can you behave randomly?
- Random.org
- Chaitin: Randomness and Mathematical Proof
- A Pseudorandom Number Sequence Test Program (Public Domain)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Randomness."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHANCE | English | Competence Building and Higher Awareness about Networking and Collaboration for Europe | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ChanceSynonyms: accidental (adj), casual (adj), chance(a) (adj), fortune (n), luck (n), opportunity (n), probability (n), adventure (v), bump (v), encounter (v), find (v), gamble (v), happen (v), hazard (v), risk (v), run a risk (v), take a chance (v), take chances (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Motive | Noun: absence of motive, aimlessness; caprice; chance; (absence of design). |
Possibility | Contingency, chance. |
Probability | Reasonable chance, fair chance, good chance, favorable chance, reasonable prospect, fair prospect, good prospect, favorable prospect; prospect, wellgrounded hope; chance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Everything dead on earth, except us. A chance for Mother Nature to start again (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Now we'll see if it has a chance. (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) I do know this: Kevin would trade it all for a chance to be normal, to have a friend, and to do what other kids do. Max Casey has given that chance (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.) Not a chance. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) It's the chance of a lifetime, you must let me have it (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) | |
Lyrics | A heart needs a second chance (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special) For just one more chance (Just One More Chance; performing artist: Bing Crosby) While you see a chance take it, find romance fake it (While You See a Chance; performing artist: Steve Winwood) So I took a big chance at the high school dance ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) Cause there's another chance and a someday soon (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) | |
Clever | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (references; author: Mark Twain) You only have one chance to make a first impression. (references; author: unknown) If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance! (references; author: unknown) The Iron Rule: Don't do for others what, given the chance, they wouldn't do for themselves. (references; author: unknown) We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves first before anyone else has the chance. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | L' Ombre d'une chance (1974) Perahim - die zweite Chance (1974) Second Chance (1972) Ghost of a Chance (1971) | |
Song Titles | While You See A Chance (performing artist: Steve Winwood) One More Chance (performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crowd waiting for oral polio vaccine in 1962. Today CDC now recommends that we give only the injectable vaccine because of the very small chance that the oral dose can lead to a polio infection. Credit: CDC. |  | Through an extraordinary chance alignment, the Hubble telescope has captured a view of a ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The Maryland Science Center's new Outer Space Place offers visitors a chance to explore the ... Credit: NASA. |  | Bob was the duty driver that night Bob Pryce at the Last Chance Bar in Umiat. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 25. A roller guide, devised by Jules Le Blanc following a suggestion of Prince Albert I of Monaco. Used to minimize chance of tangling cables during oceanographic operations. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Baneberry (Actaea rubra) along Last Chance Creek (Grave Creek Drainage). Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | With Your Help He Has a Fighting Chance : Share The Gift of Life. Make a Date to Give Blood, Platelets and Plasma Today. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | There's no puzzle to giving your baby the best chance for health. Don't smoke or drink while you're pregnant. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "As the anti-submarine warfare carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) steamed toward a nine-day visit to Rotterdam, Holland, for the Christmas Holidays, crewmen formed the traditional Dutch equivalent of America's 'Merry Christmas' on the flight deck." "Essex, the oldest carrier still in operation, is deployed in the Eastern Atlantic as Flagship of Task Group 83.3. Through her visits to English, Dutch and German ports, 'The Fighten'est Ship in the Fleet' is giving our allies a chance to get a first-hand look at an example of America's naval strength." Photograph and caption were released by the ship's PIO under date of 29 December 1961. Destroyer in the middle background is USS Robinson (DD-562). Credit: NAVY. |  | Frank Chance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Chance" by Tim Godin Commentary: "My dog Chance." | "Galley Head Light, Co Cork Ire" by Pat McArdle Commentary: "Galley Head Lighthouse in west Cork at night. took the shot by exposing for around 2 mins and throwing light fill-in flash at the lighthouse (around 20 flashes at one sixteenth strength). Image works best in portrait format. Feel free to use it but let me" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Roulette; gambling; gaming; chance; black; red; even; odd; . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
Baltasar Gracian | Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. |
Euripides | Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. |
Jacques Delille | Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. |
Jane Austen | Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. |
John Donne | Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Chance is the providence of adventurers. |
Richard Cobden | Luck relies on chance, labor on character. |
Sophocles | Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus the natural fathers of families, by an insensible change, became the politic monarchs of them too: and as they chanced to live long, and leave able and worthy heirs, for several successions, or otherwise; so they laid the foundations of hereditary, or elective kingdoms, under several constitutions and mannors, according as chance, contrivance, or occasions happened to mould them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | By a most fortunate chance his leaving Highbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this critical moment |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To be a chance comer is no drawback, provided you have improved your chances |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | How chance the prophet could not at that time Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Never did have no chance to try her. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | By the luckiest chance in the world, I had not discharged myself of any part of it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Give food a chance. (references) | |
A much greater chance of heart disease and stroke. (references) | ||
You have the chance to help others and improve cancer treatment. (references) | ||
Business | Again, niche products are key and this is where U.S. companies stand a good chance in the market. (references) | |
RV rental and fly/drive packages offer the vacationer a chance to combine different types of vacations. (references) | ||
Chance of developing chronic liver diseases is higher in hepatitis C patients than hepatitis B patients. (references) | ||
Children | Bhutan | Exile groups claim that Nepalese students scoring highly on national exams are not always given the same advantages as other students (such as the chance to study abroad at government expense), particularly if they are related to prominent dissidents or refugees. (references) |
Yemen | The infant mortality rate in 1999 was 75 deaths per 1,000 births, down from 105 per 1,000 in 1998. Male children receive preferential treatment over female children; after the age of a year, male children have a 12 percent greater chance of survival than females, a result of the comparative neglect of female children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Panama | The Government has offered Colombians the chance to participate in a voluntary repatriation program in coordination with the Government of Colombia, and many agreed to return. (references) |
Economic History | Denmark | Export companies seeking only a fast buck have very little chance of success. (references) |
Turkey | Demirel gave Ciller a second chance to form a government, and she again turned to Baykal. (references) | |
Czech Republic | The "Velvet Revolution" in 1989 offered a chance for profound and sustained economic reform. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | Authorities routinely do not notify prisoners' families of their incarceration; such information often is obtained only by chance. (references) |
Burundi | In 2000 two soldiers were executed for murder without having had legal representation during their trial or the chance to appeal their convictions. (references) | |
Bahamas | In 1999 the final appeals court ruled that death-row inmates appealing their sentences must be given the chance to be heard by bodies such as the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (references) | |
Political Economy | Qatar | The current 30-year Constitution provides little chance for the Qatari people to play a direct role in the decision-making process. (references) |
PERU | Labor experts assert that companies prefer this type of hiring because it affords them the chance to adapt their total payroll to the business cycle without the hassle of having to seek government approval to release workers. (references) | |
Cameroon | Security forces continued to arrest and detain arbitrarily various opposition politicians, local human rights monitors, and other citizens, often holding them for prolonged periods, often without charges or a chance for trial and, at times, incommunicado. (references) | |
Political Rights | Jamaica | A ruling party Councilor was audiotaped telling squatters that a vote for the opposition would "seriously risk" their chance at securing legal housing. (references) |
Slovenia | During the October 15, 2000 Parliamentary elections, an increased number of women were nominated to run by political parties; however, the majority of these female candidates were assigned to run in districts in which their parties had little chance of winning (based on 1996 election results). (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | Many of the new loans are seen to be less commercially viable than the loans already in the SOCBs portfolios, prompting experts to be bearish on chance that a large number of these loans will not default. (references) |
Travel | Spain | The only American casualty due to terrorism in Spain was a chance victim of a bombing directed at others. (references) |
Women | Netherlands | Nevertheless women often are underemployed and have less chance of promotion than their male colleagues. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | The economic benefits that penal institutions may receive from prisoners' work and the inconsistent application of standards of official accountability increase the chance that some prison labor may be coercive or even abusive. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Earl Charles Spencer | That's my belief. That's how I see it. I mean, it's not for me to say whether those problems were resolvable or not. But the fact is that they were never given a chance to be resolved. |
Martha Stewart | Oh, not at all. I've only worked harder since, and haven't had a chance, not even a minute, to spend any money, so. |
Regis Philbin | The Rat Pak. And national exposure. I mean, it was a lot going on on that show and a chance to learn how they did it on network television. It was a wonderful three years and I did meet an awful lot of people. |
Robert Shapiro | You know, first of all, I'm so honored to be on the same show with Warren Christopher. And I had a chance to meet with the Secretary before this show. And I was discussing this. |
Robert Wagner | Well, fortunately I'm healthy. I've met so many people. I've been blessed in my career, and I've had a chance to really, you know, it's better. It gets better all the time, you know. Really. |
Rod Steiger | Well I don't know. Anyway the point is what I wanted the award for most of all is for about three or four months that you make a mistake you get the best scripts, chance to work with the best people, and the best directors. |
Rush Limbaugh | So when Jimmy Carter called and said that Kim Il Sung was a cool guy, Clinton jumped at the chance to pass more impotent UN resolutions or sign another meaningless piece of paper. |
Sela Ward | Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | As they always do when they have a fair chance, the people demonstrated that they are sound and are determined to have a sound government. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We know from day-to-day experience that the chance for a just solution is immeasurably increased when everyone directly interested is given a voice. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The chance to learn is their brightest hope and must command our full determination. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But I want to end it in a way which will increase the chance that their younger brothers and their sons will not have to fight in some future Vietnam someplace in the world. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | All Americans do have a fairer chance to pursue happiness. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Let's reduce government interference and give it a chance to work. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let us give freedom a chance. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Give someone on welfare the chance to go to work. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | It is a chance for us to remind our fellow citizens that when you find a good principal, thank him or her from the bottom of your heart for doing one of the toughest jobs in the country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Chance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Chance" is used about 13,247 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.68% | 13,204 | 691 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.2% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.08% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.04% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13,247 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "chance" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Chance | First name Male | 7,000 | 842 |
| Chance | Last name | 5,000 | 2,290 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Chance" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a chance". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "chance". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Tychicus | N/A | Biblical | By chance |
| Chance | Female, Male | English | A chance |
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1. Chance, MD 2. Chance, VA |
Expressions using "chance": a fat chance ♦ a fat chance you have ♦ A fighting chance ♦ a snowball's chance in hell ♦ a sporting chance ♦ as chance ♦ as if by chance ♦ bare chance ♦ blunder away one's chance ♦ by any chance ♦ by chance ♦ chance bargain ♦ chance causes ♦ Chance comer ♦ chance customers ♦ chance event ♦ chance it ♦ chance meeting ♦ chance nature ♦ chance of a lifetime ♦ chance of smth. ♦ Chance of survivorship ♦ chance on ♦ chance one's luck ♦ chance to do ♦ chance to do smth. ♦ chance to meet ♦ chance upon ♦ chance upon smth. ♦ chance variable ♦ Clifford Chance ♦ come by chance ♦ encounter the chance ♦ even chance ♦ eye to the main chance ♦ fair chance ♦ fighting chance ♦ game of chance ♦ give a chance ♦ give smb. a chance ♦ good chance ♦ happen by chance ♦ happy chance ♦ have a small chance ♦ have an eye to the main chance ♦ have no chance ♦ have no chance whatever ♦ i'll chance it! ♦ it's mere chance ♦ jump at the chance ♦ Last Chance ♦ leap at a chance ♦ leave to chance ♦ let a chance go by ♦ look after the main chance ♦ lose a chance ♦ lose one's chance ♦ lose the chance ♦ main chance ♦ meet by chance ♦ miss a chance ♦ miss one's chance ♦ miss the chance ♦ no chance ♦ not a dog's chance ♦ not to have a dog's chance ♦ off chance ♦ on the chance ♦ on the chance of ♦ on the chance that ♦ on the off chance ♦ outside chance ♦ poor chance ♦ purely by chance ♦ run a good chance ♦ small chance ♦ snap at the chance ♦ sporting chance ♦ stand a chance ♦ stand a fair chance ♦ stand a good chance ♦ stand no chance ♦ take a chance ♦ take one's chance ♦ take the chance ♦ The last chance ♦ the main chance ♦ this chance ♦ throw away a chance. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chance": chance-game, chance-guest, chance-half correlation, chance-in-a-million, chance-induced, Chance-medley, chance-meeting, chance-met, chance-selected, chance-started, chance-the, chance-throw, chance-vought. | |
Ending with "chance": last-chance, off-chance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kans (luck), geleentheid (event, occurence, opportunity), gebeurtenis (event, occasion, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Albanian | shans (fortuity, hap, hazard, hit, look in, luck, odds, opening, opportunity, possibility, prayer), rrezikoj (adventure, endanger, gamble, go off the deep end, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, oppose, risk, venture), rrezikim (compromise, peril), rrezik (danger, distress, fear, hazard, imminence, impendence, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, riskiness), rastis (hap, happen), rastësi (accident, fortuitousness, fortuity, hazard), rast (case, circumstance, event, handle, happening, instance, matter, occasion, piece, place, possibility, scope), qëllon (fall, hap, happen), ndodh (become, befall, come about, come off, come to pass, eventuate, exist, fall, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, set, transpire), mundësi (capability, capacity, eventuality, handle, ingress, likelihood, look in, odds, opportunity, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal), kuturis (adventure, venture), i rastit (adventitious, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), fat (circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fate, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lot, lottery, luck, mercy, portion, predetermine, share, spouse, weird). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرصة (break, holiday, occasion, opportunity, scope, show, way), مصادفة (accident, accidental, by chance, coincidence, fortuitously, fortuity, haphazard, hazard, occurrence), حظ (cast, fluke, fortune, luck, show), تصادفي (fortuitous, incidental), صادف (come across, encounter, fall in with, happen, happen on, light upon, meet, meet by chance, run across, stumble, stumble on, tumble), صدفة (accident, accidentally, at a venture, coincidence, contingency, haphazard, happening, incidentally, scallop, seashell, shell), خاطر (hazard, risk, stake, take the plunge), جازف (adventure, hazard, risk, run a risk, stick out one's neck), إمكانية (possibility, potency, potential, prospect, scope), إحتمال (contingency, endurance, eventuality, expectation, feasibility, likelihood, probability, prospect, stay, sufferance, toleration, verisimilitude), إتفاقي (accidental, flat rate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдба (destiny, dispensation, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, star, weird), удобен случай (occasion, opening, opportunity), случвам се (befall, come, come about, eventuate, fall, fall out, intervene, occur, pass, rise, take place, transpire), случайност (accident, accidental, contingency, contingent, fortuitousness, fortuity, mischance), случай (call, case, event, hazard, incident, occasion, thing, time), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), рискувам (adventure, dare, gamble, hazard, jeopardize, pawn, risk, stake, take a chance, take a risk, tempt, venture), риск (adventure, cast, gamble, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, venture), шанс (break, expectation, fluke, hazard, look in, odds, show), късмет (cast, fortune, godsend, hap, hit, jam, kismet, luck, pudding-bag, score, stroke of luck), възможност (eventuality, likelihood, look in, margin, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, scope, show), поемам риск. (various references) | |
Chinese | 机会 (Opportunities, Opportunity), 機會 (occasion, opportunity). (various references) | |
Czech | vynikající (accomplished, amazing, beautiful, champion, delicious, egregious, eminent, excellent, exquisite, fine, magnificent, notable, outstanding, preeminent, prize, prominent, star, sterling, superlative, wonderful), vyhlídka (look out, outlook, perspective, prospect, viewpoint, vista), riziko (gamble, hazard, peril, risk, venture), prvotřídní (big time, champion, choice, crack, first class, first rate, high-class, preeminent, star, sterling, tiptop, topflight, topnotch), příležitost (occasion, opportunity, time), nadìje (expectation, expectations, hope, odds, promise, prospect), náhoda (accident, coincidence, contingent, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, random), šance (break). (various references) | |
Danish | tilfældig (accidental, adventitious, random), tilfælde (accidence, accident, affair, case, hazard, matter), lejlighed (abode, accommodation, apartment, dwelling, event, flat, occurence, opportunity, residence). (various references) | |
Dutch | toevallig (accidental, adventitious, by accident, by chance, occasional, random), incidenteel (accidental, adventitious, incidental, random). (various references) | |
Esperanto | okazo (event, occurence, opportunity), hazardo (accidence, hazard), hazarda (accidental, random), ŝanco (luck). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vánir (luck), møguleiki (luck, possibility), hending (episode, event, occurence, opportunity), høvi (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرصت (Breather, Leisure, Opportunity, Season, Shot, Space, Start, Time, Vantage), مجال (Leisure, Opportunity, Room, Time), تصادف (Accidence, Coincidence, Concurrence, Encounter, Fortuity, Incidence, Occasion, Occurrence), اتفاقی (Accident, Casual, Chanceful, Chancy, Chromatic, Haphazard), اتفاق افتادن (Befall, Comeabout, Fortune, Give, Occur, Tide), شانس (Fortuity, Fortune, Luck, Odds), بخت (Die, Grace, Luck). (various references) | |
Finnish | sattuma (accidence, accident, hazard, incident), mahdollisuus (luck, possibility). (various references) | |
French | hasard, chance, occasion, accidentel. (various references) | |
Frisian | foarfal (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
German | zufall (accidence, accident, coincidence, contingency, fluke, fortuity, fortune, freak, hap, happenstance, hazard), gelegenheit (event, facility, instance, occasion, occurence, opportunity, window), chance (luck, opening, opportunity), zufällig (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidental, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic), möglichkeit (contingency, eventuality, facility, feasibility, likelihood, means, occasion, opening, opportunity, option, possibility, potentiality). (various references) | |
Greek | πιθανότητα (likelihood, odds, possibility, potential, presumption, probability, verisimilitude, vraisemblance), ευκαιρία (bargain, chance of, occasion, opportunity, opportunity for, scope), τύχη (betide, destiny, fortuity, fortune, fortunes, hap, luck, random, stroke of luck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקריות (accidentalness, casualness, fortuitousness, fortuity), מקרי (accidental, casual, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, stray), מקרה (accident, case, contingency, event, fate, hap, happening, incident, lot, occasion, occurrence), מזל (destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, luckiness, planet), להזדמן (come incidentally, happen, occur), לההין (dare, hazard, venture), להסתכן (adventure, risk, stick out one's neck, take the plunge), אקראי (haphazard, incident, occasion), אפשרות (likelihood, opportunity, possibility), הזדמנות (break, occasion, occurrence, opportunity), צ'אנס, סכוי (expectation, hope, prognosis, prospect). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kockázat (adventure, bubble, hazard, jeopardy, risk, venture). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tilviljunarkenndur (accidental, adventitious, random), tilefni (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peluang (opportunity), kesempatan (facility, ocassion, opportunity). (various references) | |
Irish | seans. (various references) | |
Italian | caso (accidence, accident, affair, alternative, case, connection, connexion, event, haphazard, hazard, incident, instance, matter, occasion, occurrence, possibility, random), possibilità (hazard, means, possibility, reach, room, scope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 折 (suitable time), 拍子 (beat, musical time, rhythm, tempo), 偶然 (accident, fortuity, suddenly, unexpectedly), 契機 (opportunity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひょうし (beat, binding, front cover, rhythm, tempo, time), はくし (a small token of appreciation, beat, blank paper, doctorate, PhD, rhythm, tempo, time, weak-willed, white paper), はずみ (bound, impetus, impulse, inertia, instant, momentum, rebound, spring, spur of the moment, stimulus), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself), けいき (business, condition, gauge, light machine gun, meter, occurring in succession, opportunity, prison term, state), めぐりあわせ (fate), こうき (aroused energy, ascendency, bad breath, brightness, broad gauge, conceited, discipline, easygoing, final, fragrance, good opportunity, high class, high-spirited action, ideal time, Imperial era, inquisitiveness, intimation, latter period, law and order, optimistic, postscript, public institution, Red Flag, rise, scale, school discipline, school flag, school regulations, splendour), かちめ (odds), えん (bonds, charming, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, fate, garden, hatred, karma, relation, salt, voluptuous, weir, Yen), まぐれ (fluke), おり (cage, jail cell, pen, suitable time, weave, weaving, woven item), びん (becoming poor, bottle, flight, letter, living in poverty, mail, opportunity, post, poverty, service), きえん (abandonment, big talking, donation, high spirits, opportunity, strange coincidence), きかい (instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, outrageous, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, weird, wonderful), きっかけ (cue, excuse, impetus, motive, occasion, start), ぐうぜん (accident, fortuity, suddenly, unexpectedly), しおあい (a great opportunity, opportunity, the tidal hour), チャンス (opportunity), かげん (addition and subtraction, adjustment, allowance for, condition, degree, extent, flavor, flowery words, good words, influence, last quarter, lower limit, measure, moderation, reticence, seasoning, source of misfortune, state of health, taciturnity, wise saying). (various references) | |
Korean | 기회 (Opportunities, Opportunity). (various references) | |
Malay | kesempatan (luck). (various references) | |
Manx | taghyrt (accident, contingency, contingent, event, eventuate, experience, fluke, happen, happening, incident, occur, occurrence), daill (credit, trust), caa (occasion; croaking, opportunity). (various references) | |
Norwegian | anledning (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Papiamen | chèns (luck), koinsidensia (accidence, accident, hazard), kasualidat (accidence, accident, hazard), aksidental (accidental, adventitious, random), akontesimientu (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ancechay.(various references) | |
Polish | zdarzenie (event, occurence, opportunity), szansa (luck), przypadek (accidence, accident, event, hazard, occurence, opportunity), okazja (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Portuguese | probabilidade (expectance, expectancy, expectation, likelihood, probability, prospect), possibilidade (energy, if, likelihood, odds, perhaps, possibility, potential, power, probability, wherewith), fortuito (casual, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random), chance (luck), acidental (accidental, adventitious, bye, casual, contingent, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned), acaso (accidence, accident, case, fortuity, hap, haphazard, hazard, lottery, luck, maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly, random, venture). (various references) | |
Romanian | soartã (destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, future, hap, kismet, line, lot, luck, portion, Rede, weird), se întâmpla (be up, become, befall, betide, come, come about, come of, fortune, hap, happen, hit, occur, pass, transpire), risca (adventure, dare, gamble, go off the deep end, hazard, pawn, risk, stake, take one's chance, venture, wager), ocazie favorabilã (opportunity), ocazie (circumstance, job, matter, occasion, room, time), noroc (a bit luck, a piece of luck, blessing, cheerio, fluke, fortune, god speed, good luck, hap, happiness, hazard, hello, hi, lot, luck, luckiness, more power to you, piece of luck, prosperity, score, star, strike, success, your health), hazard (adventure, hazard, risk), eventualitate (contingency, event, eventuality, peradventure), destin (destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, line, lot, luck), şansã (cast, fortune, liberty, luck, luckiness, opening, question), accidental (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, arbitrary, broken, casual, casually, contingent, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, incidental, occasional, precarious, random, stray), întâmplare (accident, adventure, case, contingency, event, fact, fate, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, incidence, incident, luck, occasionality, occurrence, passage), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references) | |
Russian | судьба (destiny, fate, fortune, kismet, lot, luck, weird), счастье (blessedness, felicity, good innings, happiness, luck, rejoice), удача (die, dream ticket, godsend, good innings, good luck, happiness, luck, lucky break, piece of luck, score, stroke of luck, success), случаться шанс случайный, случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray), случайность (contingency, eventuality, fortuitousness, fortuity, haphazard, happenstance), случай (accident, case, emergency, event, experience, fortuity, hap, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence), рискнуть (have a go at, try one's luck), риск (die, flutter, hazard, jeopardy, occupational hazards, peril, risk, throw), шанс, возможность (capabilities, enablement, eventuality, feasibility, occasion, opening, opportunities, opportunity, position, possibility, pot luck, potential, potentiality, resource, room, turn). (various references) | |
Scottish | tuiteamas (a chance, contingence, fall, occurrence), tuiteam (a chance, fall, falling), fadail (goods found by chance or lost). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgoda (event, occasion, opportunity), verovatnoća (expectance, expectancy, likelihood, probability), sreća (blessedness, blessing, felicity, fortune, good luck, hap, happiness, joy, luck), slučajan (accidental, adventitious, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random, unexpected, unintentional), slučaj (case, contingency, event, incidence, incident, instance, occasion, occurrence), rizikovati (gamble, jeopardize, risk), prilika (circumstance, condition, occasion, opportunity, room, shape), šansa. (various references) | |
Spanish | azar (hazard, luck, random), suerte (destination, destiny, die, factories, fatalism, fate, fortune, happiness, kind, luck, luckiness, piece of luck, sort, try), acontecimiento (affair, event, happening, occasion, occurence, occurrence, opportunity), acaso (accidence, accident, hazard, perhaps), oportunidad (advisability, appropriateness, break, competence, competency, expedience, expediency, innings, occasion, opening, opportuneness, opportunity, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, shot, show, suitability, timeliness, turn). (various references) | |
Sranan | okasi (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
Swedish | slump (accidence, accident, coincidence, fortuitousness, fortuity, hazard, luck, remainder, remnant, rest), lycka (fortune, happiness, luck, mercy, success), chans (break, opening, opportunity). (various references) | |
Tagalog | pagkakátaon (luck). (various references) | |
Thai | เสี่ยง (hazard, take a chance), โอกาสน้อยมาก (fat chance), โอกาสครั้งเดียวในชีวิต (once-in-a-lifetime chance), ความเป็นไปไม่ได้ (fat chance), มีโอกาสน้อยมาก (ghost of a chance). (various references) | |
Turkish | kısmet (destiny, fatality, fate, foreordination, fortune, inning, innings, kismet, lot, Moira, portion, predestination, shot), şans eseri olan (adventitious), şans eseri olmak, baht (fortune, hap, happiness, luck, Moira), denemek (assay, attempt, condition, essay, experience, experiment, give it a shot, give it a try, have a go, have a go at, have a shy at, have a stab at, have a try, prove, put, put to the touch, sample, take a chance, take a whack at, test, try, try on, try out), fırsat (break, facility, occasion, opening, opportunity, show, turn), göze almak (envisage, face, face up to, risk, take the chance, venture), şans (auspiciousness, fluke, flukey, fluky, fortune, good luck, hap, hazard, hit, inning, innings, luck, odds, opportunity, shot, show, star, turnup), imkân (facility, feasibility, handle, possibility, potentiality, the possible), tesadüfi (accidental, adventitious, circumstantial, coincidental, fortuitous, incidental, passing, random, unarranged), olasılık (contingency, eventuality, expectation, likelihood, odds, plausibility, possibility, potentiality, presumption, probability, prospect, verisimilitude), risk (adventure, fear, hazard, jeopardy, risk, venture), riske girmek (dare, hazard, run a risk, take a risk, take the chance, take the risk, venture on, venture upon), riziko (jeopardy, risk), tâlih (auspiciousness, fate, fortune, karma, luck), tesadüf (accident, coincidence, conjunction, contingency, encounter, flukey, fluky, fortuity, hap, happenstance, incidence), tesadüfen olmak, ihtimal (contingency, eventuality, likelihood, odds, possibility, potentiality, presumption, probability, prospect, sight, verisimilitude). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mьmkinзilik (possibility). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випадковість (accident, accidental, contingency, eventuality, fortuity, haphazard, lottery), зважуватися (appoint, resolve, scale), зрадливість долі, можливість (contingency, eventuality, feasibility, occasion, possibility, power, resource, scope), нагода (circumstance, handle, occasion, opening), ймовірність (appearance), випадок (accident, adventure, case, contingency, contingent, event, fortuity, happening, incident, incidental, occasion, occurrence, occurrent, tidings), доля (allotment, cup, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, karma, lot, nemesis, portion, predestination), випадково статися, удача (bonzer, die, godsend, happiness), шанс (break, hazard, potluck), траплятися (be, bechance, befall, betide, come about, hap, occur, occur with, offer, take place, tide, turn up, worth), щасливий випадок, щастя (felicity, fortune, happiness, luck), ризик (adventure, danger, die, hazard, peril, risk), ризкувати, слушний випадок (opening), випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cơ hội để phất, tình cờ (accidental, accidentally, casual, contingent, en passant, fortuitous, incidental, incidentally, passing), sự tình cờ sự có thể, sự may rủi (haphazard, peradventure), sự có khả năng, ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, adventitious, casual, contingent, fortuitous, haply, incidental, incidentally, perchance, promiscuous). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyfle (opportunity, place), siawns, damwain (accident, fate). (various references) | |
Zulu | ithuba (event, occurence, opportunity), ilithuba (event, occurence, opportunity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | casus. (various references) |
| Vulgar Latin | 200-Modern | cadentia. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | cheance. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 11, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai idwn sukhn makroqen ecousan fulla hlqen ei ara eurhsei ti en auth kai elqwn ep authn ouden euren ei mh fulla ou gar hn kairoV sukwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque vidisset a longe ficum habentem folia venit si quid forte inveniret in ea et cum venisset ad eam nihil invenit praeter folia non enim erat tempus ficorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða he ferren ge-seah an fic-treow þeleaf hæfde. he com & sohte hwæðer he þæron aht funde. þa he him to com; ne fundehe þær buton leaf ane. Sodlice hit wæs þasfic-treowes time. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde seyn a fige tree afer hauynge leeues, he cam, if happili he schulde fynde ony thing theron; and whanne he cam to it, he foonde no thing, out takun leeues; for it was not tyme of figis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And spyed a fygge tree a farre of havinge leves and wet to se whether he myght finde eny thinge ther on. But when he came therto he foude no thinge but leves: for the tyme of fygges was not yet. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And seeing a fig-tree afar off, having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing on it: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves: for the time of figs had not yet come. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 11, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa pagkakita niya sa layolayo sa usa ka kahoyng igira nga dahonan, giduol niya kini basin pa makakaplag siyag bunga. Apan sa paghiduol niya niini, siya walay nakita gawas sa mga dahon lamang, kay kadto dili pa man panahon sa tingbunga. |
| Croatian | Ugleda izdaleka lisnatu smokvu i priðe ne bi li na njoj što našao. Ali došavši bliže, ne naðe ništa osim lišæa jer ne bijaše vrijeme smokvama. |
| Danish | Og da han så et Figentræ langt borte, som havde Blade, gik han derhen, om han måske kunde finde noget derpå, og da han kom til det, fandt han intet uden Blade; thi det var ikke Figentid. |
| Dutch | En ziende van verre een vijgeboom, die bladeren had, ging Hij om te zien, of Hij ook iets op denzelven zou vinden; en daarbij gekomen zijnde, vond Hij niet dan bladeren; want het was de tijd der vijgen niet. |
| Finnish | Ja kun hän kaukaa näki viikunapuun, jossa oli lehtiä, meni hän katsomaan, löytäisikö ehkä jotakin siitä; mutta tultuaan sen luo hän ei löytänyt muuta kuin lehtiä. Sillä silloin ei ollut viikunain aika. |
| French | Apercevant de loin un figuier qui avait des feuilles, il alla voir s`il y trouverait quelque chose; et, s`en étant approché, il ne trouva que des feuilles, car ce n`était pas la saison des figues. |
| Gaelic | `S nuair a chunnaic e fad as craobh-fhige air an robh duilleach, thainig e fiach am faigheadh e ma dh` fhaoidte dad oirre; `s nuair a rainig e i, cha d` fhuair e ach duilleagan: oir cha robh am nam figis ann. |
| German | Und er sah einen Feigenbaum von ferne, der Blätter hatte; da trat er hinzu, ob er etwas darauf fände, und da er hinzukam, fand er nichts denn nur Blätter, denn es war noch nicht Zeit, daß Feigen sein sollten. |
| Haitian Creole | Depi byen lwen, li wè yon pye fig frans ki te plen fèy. li al wè si li ta jwenn kèk fig frans sou li. Men, lè li rive kote l', se fèy ase li jwenn, paske se pa t' sezon fig frans. |
| Hungarian | És meglátván messzirõl egy fügefát, a mely leveles vala, odaméne, ha talán találna valamit rajta: de odaérvén ahhoz, levélnél egyebet semmit sem talála; mert nem vala fügeérésnek ideje. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dari jauh Ia melihat sebatang pohon ara yang daunnya lebat. Jadi Ia pergi ke pohon itu untuk melihat apakah ada buahnya. Tetapi ketika Ia sampai di pohon itu, Ia tidak menemukan apa-apa, kecuali daun-daun saja, sebab pada waktu itu belum musim buah ara. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Demi terpandang dari jauh sepohon ara yang berdaun, pergilah Ia melihat kalau-kalau boleh dapat apa-apa padanya; tatkala Ia sampai ke situ, suatu pun tiada dijumpai-Nya, melainkan daun sahaja; karena belum sampai musim buah ara. |
| Maori | A, i tona kitenga i tetahi piki i tawhiti, he rau ona, ka haere ia, me kore e kitea tetahi mea i runga: a, no tona taenga, kihai i kitea e ia tetahi mea, he rau anake: ehara hoki i te wa o te piki. |
| Norwegian | Og da han så et fikentre langt borte, som hadde blad, gikk han dit, om han kanskje kunde finne noget på det, og da han kom bort til det, fant han ikke noget uten blad; for det var ikke fikentid. |
| Portuguese | e avistando de longe uma figueira que tinha folhas, foi ver se, porventura, acharia nela alguma coisa; e chegando a ela, nada achou senão folhas, porque não era tempo de figos. |
| Rumanian | A zqrit de departe un smochin, care avea frunze, wi a venit sq vadq poate va gqsi ceva kn el. S`a apropiat de smochin, dar n`a gqsit deckt frunze, cqci nu era kncq vremea smochinelor. |
| Shuar | Tura arant wajan iikiu numirin Núkenniun Wáiniak, nereatsuash tusa iyumiayi. Tura nereshtairin asamtai neren penké Wáinkiachmiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, akaona kwa mbali mtini wenye majani mengi. Akauendea ili aone kama ulikuwa na tunda lolote. Alipoufikia, aliukuta bila tunda lolote ila majani matupu, kwa vile hayakuwa majira ya mtini kuzaa matunda. |
| Swedish | Och då han på avstånd fick se ett fikonträd som hade löv, gick han dit för att se om han till äventyrs skulle finna något därpå; men när han kom fram till det, fann han intet annat än löv, det var icke då fikonens tid. |
| Uma | Molaa-pidi, nahilo-hawo hangkaju kaju ara to mobumu-damo rau-na-- hiaa' ko'ia tempo powuaa' -na. Hilou-imi hi kaju toe, pai' nanaa meka' ba ria wua' -na. Aga uma ria nau' hantakua. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chance": chanced, chanceful, chancel, chancelleries, chancellery, chancellor, chancellories, chancellors, chancellorship, chancellorships, chancellory, chancels, chanceries, chancery, chances. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "chance": bechance, happenchance, mischance, perchance. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chance": bechanced, bechances, happenchances, mischances. (additional references) | |
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"Chance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cahnce, cance, chace, chache, chalce, chanc, chancay, chancey, chane, changce, chanic, chanie, Chanka, chanse, chante, chauce, Chauncey, Chenca, chince, chinke, chnace, Chojnice, Chonku, Chonwe, ciance, Schnake, shance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chance" (pronounced kha"ns) |
| 3 | -a" n s | advance, askance, dance, enhance, expanse, finance, glance, Hance, lance, Nance, prance, Rance, refinance, romance, stance, trance. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n" | |
-1 letter: cache, hance. | |
-2 letters: ache, acne, cane, ceca, each, haen. | |
-3 letters: ace, ane, can, hae, hen, nae, nah. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, an, eh, en, ha, he, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n" | |
+1 letter: chanced, chancel, chances, chancre, chicane, conchae. | |
+2 letters: anechoic, atechnic, bechance, catechin, chaconne, chancels, chancery, chancier, chancres, chicaned, chicaner, chicanes, coachmen, cranched, cranches, encroach, mechanic. | |
+3 letters: bacchante, backbench, bechanced, bechances, cacheting, catchment, catechins, chaconnes, chalcogen, chanceful, chanciest, chicaners, chicanery, chloracne, cochineal, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, echinacea, mechanics, mischance, perchance, raincheck, technical. | |
+4 letters: archdeacon, bacchantes, bechancing, cachinnate, catchments, catchpenny, catechumen, cathecting, chalcedony, chalcogens, chancellor, chanceries, chanciness, chatoyance, chloracnes, choanocyte, coanchored, cochairmen, cochineals, coelacanth, cranreuchs, crunchable, echinaceas, encroached, encroacher, encroaches, mechanical, mischances, rainchecks, saccharine, technicals, technician, technocrat, trenchancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Cities 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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