The difference between Chance and Test
When used as nouns, chance means an opportunity or possibility, whereas test means a challenge, trial.
When used as verbs, chance means to happen by chance, to occur, whereas test means to challenge.
Chance is also adverb with the meaning: perchance.
Chance is also adjective with the meaning: happening by chance, casual.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chance and Test
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Chance as a noun (countable):
An opportunity or possibility.
Examples:
"We had the chance to meet the president last week."
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Chance as a noun (uncountable):
Random occurrence; luck.
Examples:
"Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?"
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Chance as a noun (countable):
The probability of something happening.
Examples:
"There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow."
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Chance as a noun (countable, archaic):
What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
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Chance as an adjective:
Happening by chance, casual.
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Chance as an adverb (obsolete):
Perchance; perhaps.
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Chance as a verb (archaic, intransitive):
To happen by chance, to occur.
Examples:
"It chanced that I found a solution the very next day."
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Chance as a verb (archaic, transitive):
To befall; to happen to.
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Chance as a verb:
To try or risk.
Examples:
"Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?"
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Chance as a verb:
To discover something by chance.
Examples:
"He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way."
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Chance as a verb (Belize):
To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
Examples:
"I was chanced out of my money by that fast-talking salesman."
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Test as a noun:
A challenge, trial.
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Test as a noun:
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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Test as a noun (academia):
An examination, given often during the academic term.
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Test as a noun:
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
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Test as a noun (cricket, normally “[[Test]]”):
A Test match.
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Test as a noun (marine biology):
The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
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Test as a noun (botany):
Testa; seed coat.
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Test as a noun (obsolete):
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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Test as a verb:
To challenge.
Examples:
"Climbing the mountain tested our stamina."
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Test as a verb:
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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Test as a verb:
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
Examples:
"to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument"
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Test as a verb (academics):
To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
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Test as a verb:
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
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Test as a verb (copulative):
To be shown to be by test.
Examples:
"He tested positive for cancer."
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Test as a verb (chemistry):
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
Examples:
"to test a solution by litmus paper"
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Test as a noun (obsolete):
A witness.
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Test as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
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Test as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To make a testament, or will.
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Test as a noun (informal, slang, body building):
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