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hunt·ing

(hŭn′tĭng)

1. The activity or sport of pursuing game.

2. The act of conducting a search for something: house hunting.

3. Electronics The periodic variation in speed of a synchronous motor with respect to the current.

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hunting

(ˈhʌntɪŋ)

(Hunting)

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

b. (as modifier): hunting boots; hunting lodge.

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hunt•ing

(ˈhʌn tɪŋ)

n.

1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts.

2. the periodic oscillating of a rotating electromechanical system about a mean space position, as in a synchronous motor.

adj.

3. of, for, or engaged in hunting: a hunting cap.

[before 950]

hunting

park - Originally a legal term for land held by royal grant for the keeping of game animals for royals to hunt.
sealer, sealing - A sealer is a seal hunter and seal hunting is called sealing.
half-cocked - Comes from hunting; a gun at half cock is in the safety position—so it came to mean "incompletely prepared."
tryst - Comes from Scottish as a variant of an old word, trist, "an appointed place or station in hunting," and now means a "secret meeting of lovers."

Hunting

cynegetics

the sport of hunting. — cynegetic, adj.

falconry

1. the sport of hunting with falcons or other trained birds of prey.
2. the training of birds of prey.

venation

Archaic. the sport or occupation of hunting. — venatic, venatical, venational, adj.

venery

1. Archaic. the sport, practice, or art of hunting or the chase.
2. the animals that are hunted.

hunting

– shooting

In American English, hunting is the killing of wild animals or birds as a sport or for food, using guns.

...the shotgun the President used when he went deer hunting.

In British English, hunting usually refers to the chasing and killing of foxes by dogs, followed by people on horseback. The killing of animals and birds with guns is referred to in British English as shooting.

For hunting with hounds was voted illegal in Scotland.

Grouse shooting begins in August.

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Noun	1.	hunting - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport hunt field sport, outdoor sport - a sport that is played outdoors blood sport - sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting) battue - a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter 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 bag - capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants" batfowl - catch birds by temporarily blinding them snare, trammel, trap, ensnare, entrap - catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" gin - trap with a snare; "gin game"
	2.	hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone search, hunt activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" exploration - a careful systematic search foraging, forage - the act of searching for food and provisions frisk, frisking - the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk" looking for, looking - the act of searching visually manhunt - an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime) seeking, quest - the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" ransacking, rummage - a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" scouring - moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing" shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
	3.	hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts 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 toil, labor, labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" stalking, still hunt, stalk - 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

hunting

noun blood sports, coursing, stalking, field sports referendums whether or not to ban hunting in the country

Quotations
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" [Oscar Wilde]

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Translations

صَيْدٌصَيْد، إصْطِياد

lov

jagt

metsästys

lov

veiîi, veiîar

caccia ricerca

狩り

사냥

lov

jakt

การล่าสัตว์

avavcılıkavlanma

sự đi săn

打猎

hunting

[ˈhʌntɪŋ]

A. N (Sport) → caza f, cacería f

B. CPD hunting box N → pabellón m de caza
the hunting fraternity N → los aficionados a la caza
hunting ground N → cazadero m
a happy hunting ground for (fig) → un terreno fértil para
hunting horn N → cuerno m de caza
hunting lodge N → pabellón m de caza
hunting pink N → chaqueta f de caza roja
hunting season N → época f de caza

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hunting

[ˈhʌntɪŋ] n

(for sport) → chasse f
I'm against hunting → Je suis contre la chasse. fox-hunting, job huntinghunting ground n

(for animals) → terrain m de chasse

(fig) → terrain m de chasse
a good hunting ground for sth → un bon terrain de chasse pour qchhunting rifle n → fusil m de chassehunting season n → saison f de chassehunt saboteur n → militant(e) m/f qui participe à des actions directes contre la chasse

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hunting

→ die Jagd, das Jagen; the hunting in these woods is excellent → diese Wälder sind ein gutes Jagdgebiet

(fig: = search) → Suche f → (for nach); after a lot of hunting … → nach langer Suche …

hunting

in cpds → Jagd-;

hunting box

n → Jagdhütte f

hunting ground

n (lit, fig) → Jagdrevier nt, → Jagdgebiet nt; to go to the happy huntings → in die ewigen Jagdgründe eingehen; a happy hunting (fig) → ein beliebtes or einträgliches Jagdrevier (for für)

hunting horn

n → Jagdhorn nt

hunting licence, (US) hunting license

n → Jagdschein m

hunting lodge

n → Jagdhütte f; (larger) → Jagdschloss nt

hunting pink

n (= colour) → Rot nt (des Reitrockes); (= clothes) → roter (Jagd)rock

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hunting

[ˈhʌntɪŋ] n (Sport) → caccia

hunt

(hant) verb

1. to chase (animals etc) for food or for sport. He spent the whole day hunting (deer).

2. to pursue or drive out. The murderer was hunted from town to town.

noun

1. the act of hunting animals etc. a tiger hunt.

2. a search. I'll have a hunt for that lost necklace.

ˈhunter – feminine ˈhuntress – noun

a person who hunts.

ˈhunting noun

the activity of chasing animals etc for food or for sport.

ˈhuntsman (ˈhants-) noun

a hunter.

hunt down

to search for (someone or something) until found. The police hunted down the escaped prisoner.

hunt for

to search for. I've been hunting for that shoe all morning.

hunt high and low

to search everywhere.

hunt out

to search for (something that has been put away) until it is found. I'll hunt out that old photograph for you.

hunting

→ صَيْدٌ lov jagt Jagd κυνήγι cacería metsästys chasse lov caccia 狩り 사냥 jacht jakt polowanie caça охота jakt การล่าสัตว์ av sự đi săn 打猎

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The old count, who had always kept up an enormous hunting establishment but had now handed it all completely over to his son's care, being in very good spirits on this fifteenth of September, prepared to go out with the others.

In an hour's time the whole hunting party was at the porch.

He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.

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Indeed, so exhausted were they, that those employed under the saddle were no longer capable of hunting for the daily subsistence of the camp.

This done, Captain Bonneville made a distribution of his forces: twenty men were to remain with him in garrison to protect the property; the rest were organized into three brigades, and sent off in different directions, to subsist themselves by hunting the buffalo, until the snow should become too deep.

A more forlorn set they had never encountered: they had not a morsel of meat or fish; nor anything to subsist on, excepting roots, wild rosebuds, the barks of certain plants, and other vegetable production; neither had they any weapon for hunting or defence, excepting an old spear: yet the poor fellows made no murmur nor complaint; but seemed accustomed to their hard fare.

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Very often they spent the day in hunting together, but after a while the wife found that she had so many things to do that she was obliged to stay at home; so he went alone, though he found that when his wife was not with him he never had any luck.

At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and found some wood by the door and a fire within.

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"He hunts with evil spirits," some of the people contended, "wherefore his hunting is rewarded.

But it was the mystery of Keesh's marvellous hunting that took chief place in all their minds.

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Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!

It was what they call in the Jungle the pheeal, a hideous kind of shriek that the jackal gives when he is hunting behind a tiger, or when there is a big killing afoot.