Chance vs Whirl - What's the difference?

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Chance is a related term of whirl.

As a proper noun chance

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

As a verb whirl is

(label) to rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

As a noun whirl is

an act of whirling.

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

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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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whirl

English

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

He whirls his sword around without delay.

* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.

(label) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.

(label) To make something or someone whirl.

(label) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.

* (1809-1892)

The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly.

Noun

(en noun)

An act of whirling.

She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.

Something that whirls.

A confused tumult.

A rapid series of events

My life is one social whirl .

Dizziness or giddiness.

A brief experiment or trial.

OK, let's give it a whirl .

Derived terms

* whirligig * whirlpool English terms with homophones