chance

/tʃæns/

意味: 機会、偶然

例文: Momo took a chance and stole Kai’s pillow.
　　  モモがチャンスを見てカイの枕を奪った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: take a chance(チャンスを取る), by chance(偶然に), stand a chance(可能性がある)

定義: 何かが起こる可能性や機会のことです。例えば、何かを試す機会や、何かが起こる可能性を指します。運や偶然に関連することもあります。

chanceは約5,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
Noun: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
Noun: a risk involving danger
Noun: 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
Noun: the possibility of future success
Verb: be the case by chance
Verb: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
Verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Adjective: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Take a chance and try something new today.()
I can’t believe we finally got a chance to meet!()
This is a rare chance to change your life for the better.()
Noun: the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington
Noun: now is your chance
Noun: bad luck caused his downfall
Noun: we ran into each other by pure chance
Noun: you take a chance when you let her drive
Noun: the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5
Noun: his prospects as a writer are excellent
Verb: I chanced to meet my old friend in the street
Verb: When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Verb: We find this idea in Plato
Verb: I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
Verb: She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
Adjective: seek help from casual passers-by
Adjective: a casual meeting
Adjective: a chance occurrence

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): adventure, bump, casual, chance, encounter, find, fortune, gamble, happen, hazard, luck, opportunity, probability, prospect, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): happen, measure, phenomenon, possibility, potential, risk, try

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): achievability, anticipate, arise, backfire, befall, break, chance, come, come around, conceivableness, concur, consequence, cordage, crapshoot, definite quantity, develop, endeavor, fall, fight, fundamental quantity, gamble, give, give it a whirl, go off, grope, happen, have a go, indefinite quantity, intervene, latency, levitation, luck, magnetization, metempsychosis, natural phenomenon, octane number, operate, opportunity, playing period, point, potential, probability, proceed, proof, prospect, pulsation, quantum, radical, recur, relative quantity, result, risk, supervene, synchronize, system of measurement, take a dare, time interval, time unit, transpire, turn out, value, volume

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bad luck, brass ring, conditional probability, cross section, day, exceedance, fair chance, fat chance, fresh start, go for broke, happen, hearing, hunting ground, joint probability, luck it, occasion, opening, risk, room, say, shot, street, throw, tossup

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: adventure, adventurer, casualness, chance, chancy, encounter, find, finder, gamble, gambler, hazard, opportune, probabilistic, probable, prospect, risk

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

TOEIC600

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: surprise