Chance vs Access - What's the difference?

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Chance is a related term of access.

As a proper noun chance

is , an american pet form of chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.

As a noun access is

(uncountable) a way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

As a verb access is

to gain or obtain access to.

chance

English

Alternative forms

* chaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) An opportunity or possibility.

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(uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.

(countable) The probability of something happening.

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the noun "chance") * Buckley's chance * by chance * chance'd be a fine thing * chance fracture * chance-medley * chancer * chances are * chancy * Chinaman's chance * dog's chance * even chance * fair chance * fat chance * fighting chance * first-chance exception * game of chance * half a chance * happy chance * in with a chance * jump at the chance * last chance * last chance saloon * main chance * mum chance * not a chance * off chance/off-chance * outside chance * perchance * slim chance * smart chance * snowball's chance * snowball's chance in hell * sporting chance * stand a chance

Verb

(chanc)

(archaic) To happen by chance, to occur.

It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 6

if a bird's nest chance to be before thee

* Shakespeare

I chanced on this letter.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional

Once it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell (Bishop of Ely), a Prelate rather troublesome to (w), made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at (Glemsford).

* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII

Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."

(archaic) To befall; to happen to.

* 1826 , William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent

To try or risk.

Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?

* W. D. Howells

Come what will, I will chance it.

To discover something by chance.

He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.

Derived terms

* (l) * * (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(rare) Happening]] by [[#Noun, chance, casual.

* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), (A Tale of Two Cities)'', ch. VI, ''The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centenial Edition)

No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.

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access

English

Etymology 1

* First attested in the early 14th century. * (entrance) First attested about 1380. * From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

* All access was thronged. - Milton

(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), Act 2 Scene 1

I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i

* {{quote-news, year=2011

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(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.

* 1760s , (William Blackstone),

During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.

(countable) An increase by addition; accession; as, an access of territory.

* I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue. - Milton

(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

* The first access looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet

(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an access of fury.

* 1946 , Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)

It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.

Usage note: sometimes confused with excess

(uncountable, legal) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.

(uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

(uncountable, Internet) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

Derived terms

* direct access * random access * remote access

Etymology 2

* First attested in 1962.

Verb

(es)

To gain or obtain access to.

(computing) To have access to (data).

I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.

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