(n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
(n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Probability.
(v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
(v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
(v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
(a.) Happening by chance; casual.
(adv.) By chance; perchance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(3) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(4) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(5) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(6) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(7) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(8) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
(9) There was a greater chance for the regeneration of a connective tissue attachment in nongrafted intrabony defects than in grafted defects; new cellular cementum formed equally well on old cementum, dentin, or both old cementum and dentin in the same defect.
(10) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(11) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(12) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
(13) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(14) This may help in selecting drugs with good chances of being effective in patients with HIV-related disease.
(15) After all, as Albarella says: “There aren’t any second chances with water.
(16) Tottenham not interested in topping Arsenal, says Mauricio Pochettino Read more The second half was less frenetic, with the space much tighter and the chances fewer.
(17) The morning papers, like many papers last week, were full of stories about Brown's survival chances.
(18) Case 1: A 63-year-old woman, who had no urological symptoms, was pointed out of a cystic mass in the left kidney by chance.
(19) The patient with a cholesteatoma in an only hearing ear presents a management dilemma: how best to treat the patient to minimize the chances of developing a severe hearing loss in that ear.
(20) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
Likeliness
Definition:
(n.) Likelihood; probability.
(n.) Suitableness; agreeableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(2) The more the Scots push for a referendum on independence, the likelier it is they will continue to lose influence at Westminster.
(3) Mourinho is likelier to face another fine rather than a ban given off-field offences generally prompt off-field sanctions.
(4) Based on these studies the likeliness of a role for quinolinic acid in the etiology of HD is evaluated.
(5) Jermain Defoe would be a valuable addition in attack but QPR seems a likelier destination for the former Tottenham striker, so Leicester are looking at.
(6) This seemed all the likelier minutes later when John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor , wandered in and took a seat on the other side of Eagle.
(7) Nor does the Prism article specifically refer to the finding that drones are 10 times likelier to kill civilians than manned aircraft are.
(8) The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.
(9) With Mata having a poor game and Rooney constantly misplacing or mistiming his passes, United were becoming becalmed in midfield in the late summer sunshine, and Adnan Januzaj seemed a likelier choice to inject more urgency and invention.
(10) In the 'private' sector, 69 percent of the services were delivered by GPs and 23 percent by psychiatrists were more likely to have had 'public' sector activity than were those seen only by GPs; also once in the 'public' sector, they were likelier to have had in patient as well as outpatient treatment.
(11) They fought back from a dreadful start to boss the second half of the first half, equalise early in the second period and look the likelier team to win until Kane completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot and Jeff Schlupp put through his own goal after Kasper Schmeichel had blocked from Christian Eriksen.
(12) Great Barrier Reef bleaching made 175 times likelier by human-caused climate change, say scientists Read more Underlying the finding that reefs will continue to survive is the assumption that agreements made at Paris to keep global warming to “well below 2C” are successful.
(13) For example, a female leader in danger is much likelier to face pressure from her family, or even from male colleagues, to withdraw from activism.
(14) Before the programme, only 6.5% of girls reported being self-employed; afterwards, they were 32% likelier to be working.
(15) My body needs to shut down and heal up.” It seems as if a loan spell at a Premier League club, and a permanent return to England in January, is likelier than another season in Toronto.
(16) Women in Ghana are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Britain, and children are 13 times likelier to die before the age of five.
(17) The younger the age at first birth, the likelier that the first marriage will dissolve.
(18) New data has revealed unsafe levels of radiation outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, increasing the likeliness that entire towns will remain unfit for habitation.
(19) The likeliness of formation of a hydantoin-related compound in the aniline-adulterated oil is evidenced and its role as possible toxic agent in TOS is proposed.
(20) Attention is paid to the likeliness of isolating aberant strains of S. gallinarum with deviations from the morphology of colonies and their antigenic and biochemical characteristic typical of the species.