<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.</li><li>luck or fortune: a game of chance.</li><li>a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success.</li><li>an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance.</li><li>an opportunity to field the ball and make a putout or an assist.</li><li>a risk or hazard: Take a chance.</li><li>a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each.</li><li>probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet.</li><li>a quantity or number (usually followed by of): a fine chance of tomatoes, harvested fresh from the garden today.</li><li>an unfortunate event; mishap.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided.</li><li>(used with object) to take the chances or risks of; risk (often followed by impersonal it): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly: She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>