chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: chases
form: chace
Etymology: From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”)
, see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).
Doublet of catch and related to capture. Displaced native Old English ōht, ēhtnes, and wāþ. Broadly overtook Old English huntaþ.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
examples: text: By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
text: 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.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:
glosses: A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
examples: text: Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.
ref: 1996, Marla Pender McGhee, Quick & Fun Learning Activities for 1 Year Olds, page 25:
text: So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.
ref: 2009, Martin J. Levin, We Were Relentless: A Family's Journey to Overcome Disability, page 41:
glosses: A children's game where one player chases another.
examples: text: Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 14, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
glosses: Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
examples: text: As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,
ref: 1575, George Gascoigne, chapter 40, in The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting, London: Christopher Barker, page 111:
text: Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
synonyms: game
glosses: A wild animal that is hunted.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
qualifier: real tennis
glosses: The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
qualifier: real tennis
glosses: A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
Derived terms: word: Cannock Chase
word: car chase
word: chase gun
word: chase plane
word: chase port
word: Chasetown
word: chase vehicle
word: chasework
word: chasey
word: Cranborne Chase
word: cut to the chase
word: devil chase
word: diagram chase
word: foot chase
word: forechase
word: give chase
word: inchase
word: in full chase
word: kiss chase
word: lay chase
word: merry chase
word: paperchase
word: paper chase
word: run chase
word: steeplechase
english: wild goose chase
translation: wild goose chase
word: wild-goose chase