CASTING LOTS Synonyms

• a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting

• a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

• vote by ballot

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• 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

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

• a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines

• the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams

• players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

• act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source

• the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

• a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• an obstacle on a golf course

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• To allot; to sort; to apportion.

• To count or reckon (on or upon).

• a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

• dispose of in a lottery

• making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn