chance vs opening

opening vs chance

chance and opening both are nouns.

chance and opening both are adjectives.

chance is a verb but opening is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
opening	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

chance: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
opening: opportunity especially for employment or promotion

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

chance (noun)	opening (noun)
a risk involving danger	a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
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	the act of opening something
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another	becoming open or being made open
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances	the first of a series of actions
the possibility of future success	a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
	an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
	an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
	a possible alternative
	the initial part of the introduction
	the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
	a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
	an open or empty space in or between things
	opportunity especially for employment or promotion

chance (adjective)	opening (adjective)
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance	first or beginning

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

Difference between chance and opening

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