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Hunt
(h/@/nt )

noun (n)

  • Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    holman hunt, william holman hunt
    source: wordnet30
  • United States architect (1827-1895)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    richard morris hunt
    source: wordnet30
  • British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    james henry leigh hunt, leigh hunt
    source: wordnet30
  • an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport(noun.group)
    Synonym:
    hunt club
    source: wordnet30
  • an instance of searching for something(noun.cognition)
    Example:
    The hunt for submarines.
    source: wordnet30
  • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    hunting, search
    source: wordnet30
  • the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    hunting
    source: wordnet30
  • the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport(noun.act)
    source: wordnet30
  • The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)(verb.competition)
    Example:
    Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland.
    The Duke hunted in these woods.
    Synonym:
    hunt down, run, track down
    source: wordnet30
  • pursue or chase relentlessly(verb.motion)
    Example:
    The hunters traced the deer into the woods.
    Synonym:
    hound, trace
    source: wordnet30
  • chase away, with as with force(verb.motion)
    Example:
    They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood.
    source: wordnet30
  • yaw back and forth about a flight path(verb.motion)
    source: wordnet30
  • oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent(verb.motion)
    Example:
    The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency.
    source: wordnet30
  • seek, search for(verb.contact)
    Example:
    She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them.
    source: wordnet30
  • search (an area) for prey(verb.competition)
    Example:
    The King used to hunt these forests.
    source: wordnet30
  • To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.(verb)
    source: webster1913
  • To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.(verb)
    source: webster1913
  • 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, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.(verb)
    source: webster1913
  • To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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