throw
bite of the cherry
chance
perchance
hazardous
accident
happen
hit
stumble
lofe
casual
mayhap
possibly
perhaps
peradventure
maybe
half-chance
aleatoric
happenstance
chancelessness
kick at the can
chancefully
in a one-er
by chance
shot
occasion
hazard
incidental
lead
tip
wind
chancy
monocausal
hint
confidential information
lot
steer
something
impulsive
whimsical
capricious
befalling
in one
despondent
earthly
stand a chance
heartsick
nonsignificant
time
draw straws
unlikely
happen along
chancewise
if
lucky
catch-as-catch-can
unitasking
prayer
lottery
haphazard
fortuitous
one
adventitious
step-by-step
piecemeal
stepwise
univocal
bit-by-bit
op.
dream
yance
possible
uniconceptual
room
in small stages
swack
some something or other
one-track
one-handed
provide
no fear
allow
leave
allow for
principle of least surprise
bechance
accidental
roll the dice
inadvertent
advantage
ad hoc
hazardous
chance
casual
aleatoric
incidental
chancy
monocausal
impulsive
whimsical
capricious
despondent
heartsick
nonsignificant
lucky
catch-as-catch-can
fortuitous
one
adventitious
step-by-step
piecemeal
stepwise
univocal
bit-by-bit
uniconceptual
in small stages
one-track
one-handed
accidental
inadvertent
perchance
mayhap
possibly
perhaps
peradventure
maybe
chancefully
by chance
chancewise
yance
ad hoc
throw
bite of the cherry
chance
accident
lofe
half-chance
happenstance
chancelessness
kick at the can
shot
occasion
hazard
lead
tip
wind
hint
confidential information
lot
steer
befalling
earthly
time
unlikely
if
unitasking
prayer
lottery
haphazard
op.
dream
possible
room
swack
some something or other
peradventure
advantage
happen
hit
stumble
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stand a chance
draw straws
happen along
provide
allow
leave
allow for
bechance
roll the dice
noun
- a single chance or instance
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
verb
- propel through the air
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- to remove
- place or put with great energy
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- put or send forth
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- cause to be confused emotionally
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- organize or be responsible for
- make on a potter's wheel
- cause to fall off
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- Any chance event.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
adj
verb
- encounter by chance
- cause to move by striking
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- cause to experience suddenly
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- drive something violently into a location
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- hit the intended target or goal
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
noun
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- a connection made via the internet to another website
adj
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- marked by blithe unconcern
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- natural and unstudied
- not showing effort or strain
adv
adv
adv
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- An opportunity or attempt.
- Small metal balls used as ammunition.
- A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
- The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
- A cast of one or more nets.
- Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
- A single draft or catch of fish made.
- A vaccination or injection.
- The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
- A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.
- Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim.
- Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
- The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
- A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
- A punch or other physical blow.
- A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)
- A single serving of espresso.
- A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam).
- A place or spot for setting nets.
verb
adj
- Worn out or broken.
- Scarred silly or crazy of something or someone usually due to a traumatic experience with said fear.
- Tired, weary.
- Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
- Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
intj
noun
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- The time when something happens.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
verb
noun
- Chance.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
verb
noun
- an indication of potential opportunity
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead')
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- the introductory section of a story
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- an actor who plays a principal role
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- a news story of major importance
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
noun
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
verb
- take somebody somewhere
- produce as a result or residue
- tend to or result in
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- be in charge of
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be conducive to
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- lead, extend, or afford access
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- preside over
noun
- an indication of potential opportunity
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- breath
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
verb
verb
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- extend in curves and turns
- arrange or coil around
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
noun
noun
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- All members of a set; everything.
pron
- An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
- Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
- A quality to a moderate degree.
- A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
noun
- An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
- An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
verb
adv
adj
verb
noun
- An instance or occurrence.
- The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- The hour of childbirth.
- A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- A quantity of availability of duration.
- The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- The serving of a prison sentence.
- An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- Ratio of comparison.
- The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
- Closing time.
- Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- An experience.
- Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
verb
- To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
- To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
intj
verb
- To decide by any means of chance.
- To decide at random by drawing (selecting randomly between) straws, sticks, etc., one of which differs from the others (typically by being shorter), held in a person's hand so as to conceal which is the different one. Typically, whoever draws the short straw must complete some undesirable task. Alternatively, whoever draws the longest straw gets a desired position.
noun
conj
- Although; used to introduce a concession.
- Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.
- Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed.
- Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice.
- Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs.
- Even if; even in the circumstances that.
- In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
- Introducing a relevance conditional.
adj
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Whole, entire.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- The same.
- In agreement.
- Being a preeminent example.
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
particle
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
num
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
noun
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- A one-dollar bill.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
verb
pron
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
noun
- A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.
- A large number or amount of something.
- A wet sound such as a loud kiss.
- A sharp blow.
- An attack, a swipe.
- The sound of a sharp blow.
- A gulp or hearty swallow.
- A bum or petty thief.
- A striking stimulus.
- clout; influence.
verb
- To consume with hearty enjoyment.
- To slap or hit.
- To make a swack (sound).
- To labour; to exert an effort.
adv
adj
verb
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- give something useful or necessary to
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
- mount or put up
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- take measures in preparation for
verb
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- consent to, give permission; permit
- let have
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- afford possibility
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
verb
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- go away from a place
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- move out of or depart from
- produce as a result or residue
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- put into the care or protection of someone
- leave or give by will after one's death
- have left or have as a remainder
- be survived by after one's death
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- leave behind unintentionally
noun
noun
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
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