Yes I am extremely bored today waiting until 1.30pm so I can go play some soft tennis, so I have reading up about my name, and well... would anyone like to explain what the hell it means
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The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck: Chance will determine the outcome. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability. Often used in the plural: Chances are good that you will win. Is there any chance of rain? An accidental or unpredictable event. A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity: a chance to escape. A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me. Games. A raffle or lottery ticket. Baseball. An opportunity to make a putout or an assist that counts as an error if unsuccessful.
adj. Caused by or ascribable to chance; unexpected, random, or casual: a chance encounter; a chance result.
v. chanced, chanc·ing, chanc·es v. intr. To come about by chance; occur: It chanced that the train was late that day.
v. tr. To take the risk or hazard of: not willing to chance it.
Phrasal Verb: chance on or upon To find or meet accidentally; happen upon: While in Paris we chanced on two old friends.
Idioms: by chance Without plan; accidentally: They met by chance on a plane. Possibly; perchance: Is he, by chance, her brother? on the off chance In the slight hope or possibility.
The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck: Chance will determine the outcome.
The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability. Often used in the plural: Chances are good that you will win. Is there any chance of rain?
An accidental or unpredictable event.
A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity: a chance to escape.
A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me.
Games. A raffle or lottery ticket.
Baseball. An opportunity to make a putout or an assist that counts as an error if unsuccessful.
adj.
Caused by or ascribable to chance; unexpected, random, or casual: a chance encounter; a chance result.
v. chanced, chanc·ing, chanc·es
v. intr.
To come about by chance; occur: It chanced that the train was late that day.
v. tr.
To take the risk or hazard of: not willing to chance it.
Phrasal Verb:
chance on or upon
To find or meet accidentally; happen upon: While in Paris we chanced on two old friends.
Idioms:
by chance
Without plan; accidentally: They met by chance on a plane.
Possibly; perchance: Is he, by chance, her brother?
on the off chance
In the slight hope or possibility.
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