Chance vs Dream - What's the difference?
chance | dream |
(countable) An opportunity or possibility.
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(uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
(countable) The probability of something happening.
(archaic) To happen by chance, to occur.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 6
* Shakespeare
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
(archaic) To befall; to happen to.
* 1826 , William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent
To try or risk.
* W. D. Howells
To discover something by chance.
(rare) Happening]] by [[#Noun, chance, casual.
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), (A Tale of Two Cities)'', ch. VI, ''The Shoe Maker (Heron Book Centenial Edition)
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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A hope or wish.
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* (Martin Luther King)
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
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(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
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*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
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*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
As a proper noun chance
is , an american pet form of chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.As a noun dream is
imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.As a verb dream is
(lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.chance
English
Alternative forms
* chaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)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 chanceVerb
(chanc)- It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
- if a bird's nest chance to be before thee
- I chanced on this letter.
- 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).
- 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."
- Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
- Come what will, I will chance it.
- He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
Derived terms
* (l) * * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
References
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* 1000 English basic words ----dream
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(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
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- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.