hunt

(Angielski)

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
2. (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
6. (transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (intransitive) 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, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Noun

1. The act of hunting.
2. A hunting expedition.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/hʌnt/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: hunten

Dziedziczone z staroangielski: huntian

Pokrewny z staro-wysoko-niemiecki: hunda

Pokrewny z gocki: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃

Pokrewny z staroangielski: hūþ

Pokrewny z staroangielski: hentan

In summary

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Koncepcje

polowanie

myślistwo

polować

łowić

prześladować

szukać

łowiectwo

ścigać

wyszukiwać

łów

obława

badać

łażenie

dążyć

gonić

pośpiech

poszukiwanie

nagonka

pogoń

pościg

Synonimy

chase

hunting

pursue

search

follow

go hunting

quest

look for

seek

🔍

pursuit

shooting

catch

run after

fish

🐟

trace

trail

chase after

search for

hunt down

shoot

hound

capture

track

grab onto

track down

utilize

take hold of

take

comb

drive

go after

snare

research

scour

gather

run

race

fetch

receive

investigation

look

grip

hold

request

chivy

grab

grasp

occupy

seize

hunt club

Zdania

Used to hunt rabbits there myself .

This enrages the farmers , who decide to hunt them down and kill them .