Chase
[tʃeɪs]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Pursue, hunt, track, run after, give chase to.[2]. Emboss, enchase.
n. [1]. Hunting, hunt, field-sport.[2]. Pursuit, race.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute
ANT:Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade
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Definition
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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Examples
- The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They gave chase. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The active life to which he had been born and bred had given him something else to do than to join the futile chase of the pleasure-hunter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is like 'Chevy Chase,' said Maurice quickly, and stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Don't you know that they must have their chase after us, at any rate? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's been chasing me all my life, but it shall never take me nor mine alive! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Did you see what they were chasing him with? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In later years the rolling of screws, instead of cutting the threads by a chasing tool, has attained considerable importance, and provides a simpler and cheaper method of manufacture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- How did you want him to have dignity when he was being chased by the mob? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His vessel was chased for days by three of the Zodangan war ships but finally escaped during the darkness of a moonless night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The civil wars of Flanders, and the Spanish government which succeeded them, chased away the great commerce of Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She chased Jessie and Rose from the upper realm of the house; she forbade the housemaids to set their foot in it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It glides over the park after the moving shadows of the clouds, and chases them, and never catches them, all day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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