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Hunting
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc. countable, uncountable
"His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth."
- 2 the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport wordnet
- 3 The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat. countable, uncountable
- 4 the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts wordnet
- 5 Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize. countable, uncountable
"Bogie hunting is not caused by some sort of periodic disturbance but by dynamic instability; the oscillatory system is not the bogies alone but the complete assembly of bogie-plus-body; and variations in track rigidity do not affect the nature of the motion, only its intensity."
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- 6 the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone wordnet
- 7 The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call. countable, uncountable
- 1 present participle and gerund of hunt form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white."
Etymology
From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.
From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.
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