hunt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hunt	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for hunt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hunt n Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn: Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt] United States architect (1827-1895) Synonym(s): Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) Synonym(s): Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport Synonym(s): hunt, hunt club an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines" the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone Synonym(s): search, hunt, hunting the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts Synonym(s): hunt, hunting the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport Synonym(s): hunt, hunting v 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" Synonym(s): hunt, run, hunt down, track down pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" Synonym(s): hound, hunt, trace chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed" oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hunt \Hunt\, v. i. 1. (Mach.) 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, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel. 2. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin[?]an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36. Cf. {Hent}.] 1. 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. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson. 2. 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. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. --Ps. cxl. 11. 3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. 4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison. 5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hunt \Hunt\, v. i. 1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen. xxvii. 5. 2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak. {To hunt counter}, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hunt \Hunt\, n. 1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak. 2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.] 4. An association of huntsmen. 5. A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. --London Field.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Hunt, NY Zip code(s): 14846 Hunt, TX Zip code(s): 78024 Hunt, WV Zip code(s): 25635