chance lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome "it was my good luck to be there" "they say luck is a lady" "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
• a risk involving danger "you take a chance when you let her drive"
• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"
• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another "bad luck caused his downfall" "we ran into each other by pure chance"
• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington" "now is your chance"
• the probability of a specified outcome
• the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
• the possibility of future success "his prospects as a writer are excellent"
• expose to a chance of loss or damage "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture" "Why risk your life?" "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong"
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with "We find this idea in Plato" "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"