See by chance in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75:",
"text": "[...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning."
],
"links": [
[
"Unexpectedly",
"unexpectedly"
],
[
"accidentally",
"accidentally"
],
[
"foreplanning",
"foreplanning"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
12
]
],
"ref": "2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times:",
"text": "If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
8,
17
]
],
"text": "Are you by chance looking for the exit?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Possibly; perhaps."
],
"links": [
[
"Possibly",
"possibly"
],
[
"perhaps",
"perhaps"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "by any chance"
}
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṣudfatan",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "صُدْفَةً"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "biṣudfa",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "بِصُدْفَة"
},
{
"code": "ajp",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"tags": [
"South-Levantine-Arabic"
],
"word": "بالصدفة"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vypadkóva",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "выпадко́ва"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slučájno",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "случа́йно"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "per atzar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "per casualitat"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "salagma"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pèngqiǎo",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "碰巧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "còuqiǎo",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "湊巧 /凑巧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiàqiǎo",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "恰巧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gānghǎo",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "剛好 /刚好"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ǒurán",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "偶然"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "náhodou"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "tilfældigt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "toevallig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "okaze"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "hazarde"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "sattumalta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "sattumoisin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "d’aventure"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "par hasard"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "par rencontre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "zufällig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "von ungefähr"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tychaía",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "τυχαία"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "véletlenül"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "hazarde"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "per caso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "casualmente"
},
{
"alt": "ぐうぜん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gūzen",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "偶然"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "uyeonhi",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "우연히"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "fortuītō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "casu"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "temere"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slučajno",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "случајно"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "tilfeldigvis"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "tilfeldigvis"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ettefâqan",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "اتفاقاً"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "przypadkowo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "przypadkiem"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "por acaso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "casualmente"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "din întâmplare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "din noroc"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slučájno",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "случа́йно"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "le tuiteamas"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "слу̏ча̄јно"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "slȕčājno"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "náhodou"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "slučajno"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "por casualidad"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "de casualidad"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "con casualidad (Americanism)"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "casualmente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "por incidencia"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "kwa nasibu"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "av en slump"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "şans eseri"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vypadkóvo",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "випадко́во"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "aćānak",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "اچانک"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "aćānak sē",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "اچانک سے"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "tình cờ"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)",
"word": "d' astcheyance"
}
],
"word": "by chance"
}
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