Hunt

[hʌnt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.

(noun.) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.

(noun.) an instance of searching for something; 'the hunt for submarines'.

(noun.) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport.

(noun.) British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859).

(noun.) United States architect (1827-1895).

(noun.) Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910).

(verb.) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); 'Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland'; 'The dogs are running deer'; 'The Duke hunted in these woods'.

(verb.) search (an area) for prey; 'The King used to hunt these forests'.

(verb.) seek, search for; 'She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them'.

(verb.) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; 'The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency'.

(verb.) yaw back and forth about a flight path; 'the plane's nose yawed'.

(verb.) chase away, with as with force; 'They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood'.

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解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

(n.) The game secured in the hunt.

(n.) A pack of hounds.

(n.) An association of huntsmen.

(n.) A district of country hunted over.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Chase, pursue.

v. n. [1]. Follow the chase.[2]. Search, seek, look.

n. Chase, pursuit, hunting, field-sport.

整理:梅纳德

解釋/意思:

v.t. to chase wild animals for prey or sport: to chase such over a country: to search for: to pursue.—v.i. to go out in pursuit of game: to search.—n. a chase of wild animals: search: a pack of hunting hounds: an association of huntsmen.—ns. Hunt′-count′er a dog that runs back or counter on the scent a worthless dog—hence (Shak.) a blunderer and v.t. to retrace one's steps; Hunt′er (fem. Hunt′ress) one who hunts: a horse used in the chase: a watch whose face is protected like the reverse with a metal case; Half′-hunt′er such a watch where that metal case has a small circle of glass let in so that one can see the time without opening it; Hunt′ing the pursuit of wild game the chase; Hunt′ing-box Hunt′ing-lodge Hunt′ing-seat a temporary residence for hunting; Hunt′ing-cap a form of cap much worn in the hunting-field; Hunt′ing-cog an extra cog in one of two geared wheels by means of which the order of contact of cogs is changed at every revolution; Hunt′ing-crop -whip a short whip with a crooked handle and a loop of leather at the end used in the hunting-field; Hunt′ing-ground a place or region for hunting; Hunting-horn a horn used in hunting a bugle; Hunt′ing-knife -sword a knife or short sword used to despatch the game when caught or to skin and cut it up; Hunt′ing-song a song about hunting; Hunt′ing-tide the season of hunting; Hunts′man one who hunts: a servant who manages the hounds during the chase; Hunts′manship the qualifications of a huntsman; Hunt's-up (Shak.) a tune or song intended to arouse huntsmen in the morning—hence anything calculated to arouse.—Hunt down to destroy by persecution or violence; Hunt out up after to search for seek; Hunt-the-gowk to make an April fool (see April); Hunt-the-slipper an old-fashioned game in which one in the middle of a ring tries to catch a shoe which those forming the ring upon the ground shove about under their hams from one to another.—Happy hunting-grounds the paradise of the Red Indian; Mrs Leo Hunter of 'The Den Eatanswill ' a social lion-hunter in the Pickwick Papers whose husband hunts up all the newest celebrities to grace her breakfast parties.

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