HUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hunt mean? 

• HUNT (noun)
  The noun HUNT has 8 senses:

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

2. United States architect (1827-1895)

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

4. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

5. an instance of searching for something

6. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

7. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

8. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

  Familiarity information: HUNT used as a noun is common.

• HUNT (verb)
  The verb HUNT has 7 senses:

1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

2. pursue or chase relentlessly

3. chase away, with as with force

4. yaw back and forth about a flight path

5. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

6. seek, search for

7. search (an area) for prey

  Familiarity information: HUNT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Holman Hunt; Hunt; William Holman Hunt

Instance hypernyms:

Pre-Raphaelite (a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States architect (1827-1895)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hunt; Richard Morris Hunt

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hunt; James Henry Leigh Hunt; Leigh Hunt

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 4

Meaning:

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hunt; hunt club

Hypernyms ("hunt" is a kind of...):

club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An instance of searching for something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the hunt for submarines

Hypernyms ("hunt" is a kind of...):

search (the examination of alternative hypotheses)

Derivation:

hunt (seek, search for)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hunt; hunting; search

Hypernyms ("hunt" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hunt"):

shakedown (a very thorough search of a person or a place)

scouring (moving over territory to search for something)

ransacking; rummage (a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion))

quest; seeking (the act of searching for something)

looking; looking for (the act of searching visually)

frisk; frisking (the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs)

forage; foraging (the act of searching for food and provisions)

exploration (a careful systematic search)

manhunt (an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime))

Derivation:

hunt (seek, search for)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hunt; hunting

Hypernyms ("hunt" is a kind of...):

labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hunt"):

canned hunt (a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections)

stalk; stalking; still hunt (a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush)

birdnesting (hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs)

predation (the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey)

Derivation:

hunt (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

hunt (search (an area) for prey)

hunt (pursue or chase relentlessly)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hunt; hunting

Hypernyms ("hunt" is a kind of...):

blood sport (sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting))

field sport; outdoor sport (a sport that is played outdoors)

Domain member category:

drive ((hunting) chase from cover into more open ground)

drive ((hunting) search for game)

bag (capture or kill, as in hunting)

batfowl (catch birds by temporarily blinding them)

ensnare; entrap; snare; trammel; trap (catch in or as if in a trap)

gin (trap with a snare)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hunt"):

beagling (hunting rabbits with beagles)

coursing (hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent)

deer hunt; deer hunting (hunting deer)

duck hunting; ducking (hunting ducks)

fox hunting; foxhunt (mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox)

pigsticking (the sport of hunting wild boar with spears)

battue (a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter)

Derivation:

hunt (search (an area) for prey)

hunt (pursue or chase relentlessly)

hunt (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

• HUNT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

hunt; hunt down; run; track down

Context example:

The Duke hunted in these woods

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Verb group:

run (cause an animal to move fast)

hunt (search (an area) for prey)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hunt"):

fowl (hunt fowl in the forest)

forage; scrounge (collect or look around for (food))

fowl (hunt fowl)

falcon (hunt with falcons)

hawk (hunt with hawks)

jack; jacklight (hunt with a jacklight)

foxhunt (hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs)

course (hunt with hounds)

ferret (hunt with ferrets)

seal (hunt seals)

poach (hunt illegally)

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

drive ((hunting) search for game)

drive ((hunting) chase from cover into more open ground)

turtle (hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation)

ambush; still-hunt (hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing)

whale (hunt for whales)

snipe (hunt or shoot snipe)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The men hunt the area for animals
The men hunt for animals in the area

Derivation:

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

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

hunter (someone who hunts game)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pursue or chase relentlessly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hound; hunt; trace

Context example:

the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

chase; chase after; dog; give chase; go after; tag; tail; track; trail (go after with the intent to catch)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hunt"):

ferret (hound or harry relentlessly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

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

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

hunter (someone who hunts game)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Chase away, with as with force

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out (force or drive out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Yaw back and forth about a flight path

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the plane's nose yawed

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

yaw (deviate erratically from a set course)

Domain category:

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

oscillate; vibrate (move or swing from side to side regularly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Seek, search for

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hunt (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

hunt (an instance of searching for something)

hunter (a person who searches for something)

hunting (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Search (an area) for prey

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

The King used to hunt these forests

Hypernyms (to "hunt" is one way to...):

look; search (search or seek)

Verb group:

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

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

hunter (someone who hunts game)

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

 Context examples 

“The schooner Ghost, bound seal-hunting to Japan.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Norway and Iceland allow hunting in their territorial waters.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

About every tenth bird species — ca. 800 species — in the world hunts under water, and it may turn out that they too can also hear under water.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the Wild he had hunted live meat that was infinitely timid, and he knew the advantage of surprise.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If I could hunt her to her grave, I would.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A muscular hunting hound with a short, hard coat, usually lemon and white, red and white, or white and tan.

(Harrier, NCI Thesaurus)

They were part of a British expedition lead by Colonel John Hunt sent specifically to reach what was regarded at the time as the 'third pole.'

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Only last night we had news that the couple had been hunted down in Liverpool, and they prove to have no connection whatever with the matter in hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)