chase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
cycling
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
nautical
sports
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: chases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chace
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A children's game where one player chases another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.
So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.
gloss: A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wild animal that is hunted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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,
Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
gloss: Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To pursue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pursue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pursue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The team are chasing their first home win this season.
gloss: To pursue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He spends all his free time chasing girls.
She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak.
But here's my number, so call me, maybe / And all the other boys try to chase me
gloss: To pursue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I need something to chase this shot with.
[He] chases his bedtime Valium with Johnny Walker Red.
John ordered quite a few drinks. I think I stopped at four. He kept ordering straight shots of tequila and chasing them with a beer. Then he’d tear off the filter on his cigarette before smoking it.
gloss: To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
gloss: To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
gloss: To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rally chased the starter.
Synonyms: pursue
Related words: follow
Derived words: Cannock Chase
car chase
chase gun
chase plane
chase port
Chasetown
chase vehicle
chasework
chasey
Cranborne Chase
cut to the chase
devil chase
diagram chase
foot chase
forechase
give chase
inchase
in full chase
kiss chase
Ku-ring-gai chase
lay chase
merry chase
paper chase
paperchase
run chase
steeplechase
wild-goose chase
ambulance-chase
chasable
chase after
chase a rainbow
chase rainbows
chase away
chase down
chasee
chase moonbeams
chase off
chase one's tail
chase one's own tail
chase pennies with dollars
chase shadows
chase skirt
chase tail
chase the ace
chase the dragon
chase up
contour chase
go chase yourself
outchase
rechase
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հետապնդում
roman: hetapndum
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡыуыу
roman: qıwıw
lang: Bulgarian
word: лов
roman: lov
lang: Bulgarian
word: гонитба
roman: gonitba
lang: Catalan
word: persecució
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 追
lang: Chinese
word: 逐
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 追逐
roman: zhuīzhú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 追
roman: zhuī
lang: Czech
word: honba
lang: Czech
word: stíhání
lang: Danish
word: jagt
lang: Danish
word: forfølgelse
lang: Dutch
word: achtervolging
lang: Dutch
word: jacht
lang: Esperanto
word: postkuro
lang: Estonian
word: tagaajamine
lang: Finnish
word: jahti
lang: Finnish
word: takaa-ajo
lang: Finnish
word: jahtaus
lang: French
word: poursuite
lang: German
word: Verfolgung
lang: German
word: Jagd
lang: Greek
word: καταδίωξη
roman: katadíoxi
lang: Hebrew
word: מרדף
roman: mirdaf
lang: Hindi
word: पीछा करना
roman: pīchā karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: üldözés
lang: Icelandic
word: eftirför
lang: Indonesian
word: pengejaran
lang: Italian
word: caccia
lang: Italian
word: cacciare
lang: Japanese
word: 追跡
roman: tsuiseki
lang: Japanese
word: 追求
roman: tsuikyū
lang: Korean
word: 추격
roman: chugyeok
lang: Latin
word: īnsectātiō
lang: Latvian
word: vajāšana
lang: Latvian
word: pakaļdzīšanās
lang: Lithuanian
word: vijimasis
lang: Lithuanian
word: persekiojimas
lang: Norwegian
word: jakt
lang: Norwegian
word: forfølgelse
lang: Old English
word: ōht
lang: Polish
word: pogoń
lang: Portuguese
word: perseguição
lang: Romanian
word: urmărire
lang: Russian
word: пого́ня
roman: pogónja
lang: Russian
word: го́нка
roman: gónka
lang: Russian
word: пресле́дование
roman: preslédovanije
lang: Slovak
word: prenasledovanie
lang: Slovene
word: pregon
lang: Southern Altai
word: сӱрӱжер
roman: sürüžer
lang: Southern Altai
word: истежер
roman: istežer
lang: Spanish
word: persecución
lang: Swahili
word: kimbiza
lang: Swedish
word: jakt
lang: Tocharian B
word: werke
lang: Turkish
word: peşinde koşma
lang: Turkish
word: kovalama
lang: Turkish
word: kovalamaca
lang: Turkish
word: takip
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تعقیب
roman: taʼkib
lang: Yiddish
word: יאָג
roman: yog
lang: Finnish
word: ajaa takaa
lang: Finnish
word: jahdata
lang: Spanish
word: perseguir