Route vs Chance - What's the difference?
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A course or way which is traveled or passed.
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, title= A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
(rfc-sense) (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
* 2010 , Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-68975-2,
To direct or divert along a particular course.
(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet
To send (information) through a router
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(countable) An opportunity or possibility.
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, passage=Here was my chance . I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.}}
(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)
Route is a related term of chance.
As a verb route
is .As a proper noun chance is
, an american pet form of chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.route
English
(wikipedia route)Etymology 1
From (etyl) route, rote (French: route) “road, way, path” (source:route on Etymonline)
Noun
(en noun)The Smallest Cell, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
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- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route'.
Derived terms
* escape route * paper route * scenic routeVerb
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
Derived terms
* reroute * routerSee also
* (Internet) bridge * (Internet) LAN * (Internet) WANEtymology 2
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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.