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

  1. Chance as a noun (countable):

    An opportunity or possibility.

    Examples:

    "We had the chance to meet the president last week."

  2. Chance as a noun (uncountable):

    Random occurrence; luck.

    Examples:

    "Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?"

  3. Chance as a noun (countable):

    The probability of something happening.

    Examples:

    "There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow."

  4. Chance as a noun (countable, archaic):

    What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

  1. Chance as an adjective:

    Happening by chance, casual.

  1. Chance as an adverb (obsolete):

    Perchance; perhaps.

  1. Chance as a verb (archaic, intransitive):

    To happen by chance, to occur.

    Examples:

    "It chanced that I found a solution the very next day."

  2. Chance as a verb (archaic, transitive):

    To befall; to happen to.

  3. Chance as a verb:

    To try or risk.

    Examples:

    "Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?"

  4. Chance as a verb:

    To discover something by chance.

    Examples:

    "He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way."

  5. Chance as a verb (Belize):

    To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

    Examples:

    "I was chanced out of my money by that fast-talking salesman."

  1. Test as a noun:

    A challenge, trial.

  2. Test as a noun:

    A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

  3. Test as a noun (academia):

    An examination, given often during the academic term.

  4. 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.

  5. Test as a noun (cricket, normally “[[Test]]”):

    A Test match.

  6. Test as a noun (marine biology):

    The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

  7. Test as a noun (botany):

    Testa; seed coat.

  8. Test as a noun (obsolete):

    Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

  1. Test as a verb:

    To challenge.

    Examples:

    "Climbing the mountain tested our stamina."

  2. Test as a verb:

    To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

  3. 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"

  4. Test as a verb (academics):

    To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

  5. 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.

  6. Test as a verb (copulative):

    To be shown to be by test.

    Examples:

    "He tested positive for cancer."

  7. Test as a verb (chemistry):

    To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

    Examples:

    "to test a solution by litmus paper"

  1. Test as a noun (obsolete):

    A witness.

  1. Test as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

  2. Test as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To make a testament, or will.

  1. Test as a noun (informal, slang, body building):

    testosterone