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Hunt
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- 1 An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter (for game, birds etc). countable, uncountable
- 2 A male given name transferred from the surname. countable, rare, uncountable
- 3 A placename; An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio, United States. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename; An unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename; Former name of McFarland, California. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A placename; Ellipsis of Hunt County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 The act of hunting.
"Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth."
- 2 the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport wordnet
- 3 A hunting expedition.
- 4 the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts wordnet
- 5 An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
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- 6 the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone wordnet
- 7 A pack of hunting dogs.
- 8 an instance of searching for something wordnet
- 9 an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport wordnet
- 1 To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. ambitransitive
"State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands."
- 2 pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) wordnet
- 3 To try to find something; search (for). ambitransitive
"The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach."
- 4 search (an area) for prey wordnet
- 5 To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. transitive
"to hunt down a criminal"
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- 6 seek, search for wordnet
- 7 To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting. transitive
"Did you hunt that pony last week?"
- 8 oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent wordnet
- 9 To use or traverse in pursuit of game. transitive
"He hunts the woods, or the country."
- 10 pursue or chase relentlessly wordnet
- 11 To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. transitive
- 12 yaw back and forth about a flight path wordnet
- 13 To shift up and down in order regularly. intransitive
- 14 chase away, with as with force wordnet
- 15 To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel. intransitive
"[…] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed."
Etymology
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
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