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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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fly
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?, IPA(key): /fla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge (“a fly”), from Proto-Germanic *fleug? (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.
Noun
fly (plural flies)
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- a trifling fly, none of your great familiars
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- (obsolete) A parasite.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Muscidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From Middle English flien, from Old English fl?ogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan? (compare Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”) (compare Lithuanian pla?kti ‘to swim’), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). More at flee and flow.
Verb
fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past flew, past participle flown)
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- 1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
- 1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
- Sleep flies the wretch.
- 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly, you fools!” he cried, and was gone.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- The brave black flag I fly.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
- It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly!
- 1645, John Milton, On Time
- Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
- 1870, William Cullen Bryant (translator), The Iliad (originally by Homer)
- The dark waves murmured as the ship flew on.
- To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- His career is really flying at the moment.
- One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- To hunt with a hawk.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (travel through air): soar, hover, wing, skim, glide, ascend, rise, float, aviate
- (flee): escape, flee, abscond; see also Thesaurus:flee
- (travel very fast): dart, flit; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
- (do an act suddenly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Antonyms
- (travel through air): walk
- (flee): remain, stay
- (travel very fast): see also Thesaurus:move slowly
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- fly agaric
- flight
Translations
Noun
fly (plural flys or flies)
- (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
- An act of flying.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, page 124:
- As we left the house in my fly, which had been waiting, Van Helsing said:— ‘Tonight I can sleep in peace [...].’
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 54:
- And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, page 124:
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- Ha-ha! Your flies are undone!
- February 2014 Y-Front Fly
- Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front fly turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.
- June 2014 The Hole In Men’s Underwear: Name And Purpose
- Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘fly’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on
- The free edge of a flag.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- Short for flywheel.
- (historical) A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.
- 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
- Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late?
- I dismissed the fly a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from the driver, proceeded by myself to the house.
- 1861, Henry Mayhew and William Tuckniss, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 3, p. 359:
- A glass coach, it may be as well to observe, is a carriage and pair hired by the day, and a fly a one-horse carriage hired in a similar manner.
- 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past and past participle flied)
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
Translations
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.
Adjective
fly (comparative flier, superlative fliest)
- (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
- (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
- (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
Translations
Etymology 4
Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).
Noun
fly (plural flies)
- (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
References
- fly at OneLook Dictionary Search
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fly?]
Etymology 1
An abbreviation of flyvemaskine, after Norwegian fly and Swedish flyg.
Noun
fly n (singular definite flyet, plural indefinite fly)
- airplane
Inflection
Synonyms
- flyvemaskine c
- flyver c
Etymology 2
From Old Norse flýja (“to flee”), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, cognate with English flee, German fliehen, Dutch vlieden.
Verb
fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)
- (archaic) to flee
- (archaic) to shun
Inflection
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German vl?(g)en (“to stack, sort out”), cognate with Dutch vlijen (“to place”), from Proto-Germanic *fl?han, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.
Verb
fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)
- (archaic) to hand, give
Inflection
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fly?/
Etymology 1
Short form of flygemaskin
Noun
fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya or flyene)
- plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse fljúga
Alternative forms
- flyge
Verb
fly (imperative fly, present tense flyr, simple past fløy, past participle flydd or fløyet)
- to fly
Derived terms
- glidefly
References
- “fly” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fly?/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
Clipping of flygemaskin (“flying machine”).
Noun
fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)
- plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
- Skunda deg, elles misser du flyet ditt!
- Hurry up, or you'll miss your plane!
- Skunda deg, elles misser du flyet ditt!
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse fljúga, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan?.
Alternative forms
- fljuga, fljuge, flyga, flyge
Verb
fly (present tense flyr or flyg, past tense flaug, supine floge, past participle flogen, present participle flygande, imperative fly or flyg)
- (intransitive) to fly (to travel through air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface)
- (transitive, ergative) to cause to fly: to transport via air or the like
- (intransitive) to run, move fast
- (intransitive, chiefly about farm animals) to be in heat, rutting
Derived terms
Related terms
- fløygje
Adjective
fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)
- very steep
Noun
fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)
- a very steep cliff
Etymology 3
From Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.
Verb
fly (present tense flyr, past tense flydde, past participle flydd/flytt, passive infinitive flyast, present participle flyande, imperative fly)
- (intransitive) to escape; flee; run away
- Synonym: flykte
- (transitive) to escape from
Etymology 4
Clipping of flygande (“flying”), present participle of fly.
Adverb
fly
- (colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the word forbanna
- Han vart fly forbanna.
Etymology 5
Confer with flye n (“flying insect”) and English fly.
Noun
fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)
- small (flying) insect
- (fishing) bait
Etymology 6
Noun
fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)
- specks
- Synonyms: rusk, grann
Etymology 7
Noun
fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)
- mountain plateau
- Synonyms: vidde, fjellvidde
Etymology 8
Of uncertain origin, though may be related to flyta (“to float”).
Noun
fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)
- sump
Etymology 9
Related to, or possibly a doublet of flø, from Old Norse flór.
Adjective
fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)
- tepid
References
- “fly” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850) , “fly”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
Anagrams
- fyl
Scots
Adjective
fly
- (slang, chiefly Doric) sneaky
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fl?ia, fl?a, from Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.
Pronunciation
Verb
fly (present flyr, preterite flydde, supine flytt, imperative fly)
- to flee, to run away, to escape
- to pass, to go by (of time)
- 1964, Gunnel Vallquist, title of the new Swedish translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
- På spaning efter den tid som flytt
- In Search of Lost Time
- På spaning efter den tid som flytt
- 1965, Sven-Ingvars, Börja om från början
- Varför ska man sörja tider som har flytt?
- Why should one feel sorry for times that have passed?
- Varför ska man sörja tider som har flytt?
- 1964, Gunnel Vallquist, title of the new Swedish translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
Conjugation
Related terms
- flykt
- flykting
Westrobothnian
Verb
fly
- to send, to hand
- fly me s?ksa
- hand me the scissors
- fly me s?ksa
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