Chanced vs Ventured - What's the difference?
chanced | ventured |
(chance)
(venture)
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
* Shakespeare
To undertake a risky or daring journey.
* J. Dryden, Jr.
To risk or offer.
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
To put or send on a venture or chance.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
* Addison
To say something.
As verbs the difference between chanced and ventured
is that chanced is past tense of chance while ventured is past tense of venture.As an adjective chanced
is discovered by chance.chanced
English
Verb
(head)- He chanced upon the definition when leafing through the dictionary.
ventured
English
Verb
(head)venture
English
Noun
(en noun)- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
- (Francis Bacon)
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
(ventur)- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
