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chance
English
Alternative forms
- chaunce (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?æns/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [t????ns], [t??e?ns]
- (Northern England, General Australian, Ireland) IPA(key): [t??æns], [t??ans]
- IPA(key): /t???ns/
- (Received Pronunciation, Cockney) IPA(key): [t????ns]
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): [t????ns]
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Etymology 1
From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French chance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
Noun
chance (countable and uncountable, plural chances)
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
Synonyms
- (random occurrence): fortune, hap; see also Thesaurus:luck
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
chance (not comparable)
- Happening by chance, casual.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)
- No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. VI, The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centennial Edition)
Translations
Adverb
chance (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
Etymology 2
From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
chance (third-person singular simple present chances, present participle chancing, simple past and past participle chanced)
- (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
- if a bird's nest chance to be before thee
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
- Once […] it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely, a Prelate rather troublesome to our Abbot, made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
- (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
- To try or risk.
- Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
- 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
- He does chance it in stocks, but he's always played on the square, if you call stocks gambling.
- To discover something by chance.
- (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
Synonyms
- (to happen) come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
- (to happen to)
- (to try) test
- (to discover something) come across, come on, come upon, encounter, stumble upon
- (to cheat someone) deceive, fool, trick; See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
- bechance
- chance on
- chance one's arm
- chance upon
Translations
References
- chance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad? (“I fall, I die”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [????s?]
Noun
chance c (singular definite chancen, plural indefinite chancer)
- A chance
Antonyms
- risiko
French
Etymology
From Old French chance, cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”). Doublet of cadence, borrowed from Italian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
chance f (plural chances)
- chance
- luck
Antonyms
- adversité
- guigne (familiar)
- malchance
- malheur
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: kans
- ? Dutch: sjans
- ? German: Chance
- ? Persian: ????? (šâns)
- ? Polish: szansa
- ? Romanian: ?ans?
- ? Turkish: ?ans
Related terms
- choir
Further reading
- “chance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Alternative forms
- scians
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadenza.
Noun
chance f (invariable)
- chance (possibility of a certain outcome)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cad?ns, from cad? (“I fall, I die”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?an.ts?/
Noun
chance f (oblique plural chances, nominative singular chance, nominative plural chances)
- chance; fate
- (rare) a throw of a die
Related terms
- cheoir
Descendants
- ? English: chance
- Japanese: ???? (chansu) (borrowed)
- French: chance
- ? Danish: chance
- ? Italian: chance
- ? Portuguese: chance
- ? Romanian: ?ans?
- ? Spanish: chance
- ? Turkish: ?ans
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chance)
- chance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /????.s?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /????.si/, [????.s??]
Noun
chance f (plural chances)
- probability
- chance, opportunity
- Synonym: oportunidade
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French chance or, in Mexico, from English chance. Doublet of cadencia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?t??an?e/, [?t??ãn?.?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?t??anse/, [?t??ãn.se]
Noun
chance m or f (plural chances)
- chance
Conjunction
chance
- (Mexico) maybe, perchance, perhaps or possibly
- Synonyms: a lo mejor, quizá, quizás, tal vez
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access
English
Etymology 1
- First attested in the early 14th century.
- (entrance): First attested about 1380.
- From Middle English accesse, acces, from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of acc?d? (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + c?d? (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æks?s/
- (General American) enPR: ?k?s?s', IPA(key): /?æk?s?s/
- Hyphenation: ac?cess
Noun
access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses)
- (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- All access was thronged.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet Act 2 Scene 1
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet Act 2 Scene 1
- (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
- 1760s, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- 1760s, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- The first access looked like an apoplexy.
- (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion
- 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
- (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- (uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
- (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
Usage notes
- (outburst, paroxysm): sometimes confused with excess.
Derived terms
- access day
- direct access
- random access
- remote access
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
- First attested in 1962.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æks?s/, /?k?s?s/
- (General American) enPR: ?k?s?s', ?k-s?s?, IPA(key): /?æk?s?s/, /?k?s?s/
- Hyphenation: ac?cess
Verb
access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)
- (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
- (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).
- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
Translations
References
- access in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- access in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- access at OneLook Dictionary Search
- access in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
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