chance vs clean slate

clean slate vs chance

chance and clean slate both are nouns.

chance is an adjective but clean slate is not an adjective.

chance is a verb but clean slate is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
clean slate	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clean slate is a hyponym of chance; that is, clean slate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chance:

chance: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
clean slate: an opportunity to start over without prejudice

Other hyponyms of chance include brass ring, day, fresh start, tabula rasa, audience, hearing, hunting ground, occasion, opening, room, say, crack, shot, street, throw.

chance (noun)	clean slate (noun)
a risk involving danger	an opportunity to start over without prejudice
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
the possibility of future success

chance (adjective)	clean slate (adjective)
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

chance (verb)	clean slate (verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
be the case by chance

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