hunt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: hunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hunted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.
Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.
gloss: To try to find something; search (for).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
The police are hunting for evidence.
He after honour hunts, I after love.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
gloss: To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to hunt down a criminal
He was hunted from the parish.
gloss: To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you hunt that pony last week?
He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.
gloss: To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He hunts the woods, or the country.
gloss: To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shift up and down in order regularly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.
gloss: The act of hunting.
pos: noun
examples: 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 hunting expedition.
pos: noun
gloss: An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
pos: noun
gloss: A pack of hunting dogs.
pos: noun
Derived words: book-hunt
bookhunter
bowhunt
headhunt
head-hunt
house-hunt
Hunt
huntable
hunt-and-peck
hunt and peck
hunt down
hunted
huntee
Hunter
hunter
hunteress
hunting
hunt out
huntress
Huntress
Huntsman
huntsman
hunt the gowk
hunt the slipper
hunt up
hunt where the ducks are
hunt where the ducks were
job-hunt
outhunt
overhunt
proverbs hunt in pairs
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
snark hunt
spider-hunting wasp
still-hunt
that dog won't hunt
that old dog won't hunt
thrill of the hunt
trophy-hunt
you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
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