toss-up vs chance

chance vs toss-up

toss-up and chance both are nouns.

toss-up is not an adjective while chance is an adjective.

toss-up is not a verb while chance is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
toss-up	Yes	No	No	No
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, chance is a hypernym of toss-up; that is, chance is a word with a broader meaning than toss-up:

toss-up: an unpredictable phenomenon
chance: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

Other hypernyms of toss-up include fortune, hazard, luck.

toss-up (noun)	chance (noun)
an unpredictable phenomenon	a risk involving danger
	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

toss-up (adjective)	chance (adjective)
	occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

toss-up (verb)	chance (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 toss-up and chance

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