| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possibility, probability |
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break, contingency, fair shake, fighting chance, indications, liability, likelihood, long shot, look-in, occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, wager |
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assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme |
| Main Entry: | opening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
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availability, big break, connection, cut*, fling*, go*, go-at, in the running, iron in the fire, look-in, occasion, opportunity, place, possibility, run, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, vacancy, whack |
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misfortune |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opportunity |
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break, chance, heyday, look-in, occasion, opening, peak, shot, show, squeak |
| Main Entry: | look-in |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | visit |
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appointment, call, evening, holiday, interview, sojourn, stay, stop, stopover, talk, tarriance, vacation, visitation, weekend |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Time. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap., intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite., era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade (period); moment, (instant) [more]., glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.
-verbs
continue, last, endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse; hold out., take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time., pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time (be inactive).
-adjectives
continuing; on foot; permanent (durable)
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while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, from hour to hour; hourly, always; for a time, for a season;, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point., the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout (completely); for good (diuturnity)., hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once.
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time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, "time and tide wait for no
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| Concept: | Opening. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot., opening; aperture, apertness; hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation; chasm (interval)., embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern., outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket., portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door; arcade; cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich gate., way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery., alley, aisle, glade, vista., bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite, thundertube., porousness, porosity; sieve, cullender, colander; cribble, riddle, screen; honeycomb., apertion, perforation; pierching; terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration., opener, key, master key, passe-partout.
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open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open., perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, punch, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in., cut a passage through; make way for, make room for., uncover, unclose, unrip; lay open, cut open, rip open, throw open.
-adjectives
open; perforated; perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent., tubular, cannular, fistulous; pervious, permeable; foraminous; vesicular, vasicular; porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled; tubulous, tubulated; piped, tubate., opening; aperient.
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closure |
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| Concept: | [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional Volition |
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chance; lot, fate (necessity); luck; good luck (good); mascot., speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit., drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or talls, cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf., gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box; dicer; gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer.
-verbs
chance (hap); stand a chance (be possible)., toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die., speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards., risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
-adjectives
fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, never thought of., indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected, random; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose., possible.
-adverbs
casually; unintentionally; unwittingly., en passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
-phrases
acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances" [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoic; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of
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