Chase

[tʃeɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time.

(noun.) United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873).

(verb.) cut a groove into; 'chase silver'.

(verb.) go after with the intent to catch; 'The policeman chased the mugger down the alley'; 'the dog chased the rabbit'.

(verb.) pursue someone sexually or romantically.

乔茜錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

(v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.

(v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

(v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.

(v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.

(v.) That which is pursued or hunted.

(v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.

(v.) 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 his ball in order to gain a point.

(n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

(n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

(n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

(n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

(v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

編輯:弗吉尼亚

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Pursue, hunt, track, run after, give chase to.[2]. Emboss, enchase.

n. [1]. Hunting, hunt, field-sport.[2]. Pursuit, race.

校對:诺艾尔

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute

ANT:Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade

杰勒德整理

解釋/意思:

n. a case or frame for holding types: a groove.

v.t. to decorate metal-work whether hammered or punched up by engraving the exterior.—ns. Chas′er one who practises chasing; Chas′ing the art of representing figures in bas-relief by punching them out from behind and then carving them on the front: the art of cutting the threads of screws.

v.t. to pursue: to hunt: to drive away put to flight.—n. pursuit: a hunting: that which is hunted: ground abounding in game.—n. Chase′port the porthole at the bow or stern of a vessel through which the chase-gun is fired.—Beasts of chase properly the buck doe fox marten and roe: wild beasts that are hunted generally.—Wild-goose chase any foolish or profitless pursuit.

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