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English noun: Hunt | |||
| 1. | Hunt (person) Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) | ||
| Synonyms | Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt | ||
| Instance hypernym | Pre-Raphaelite | ||
| 2. | Hunt (person) United States architect (1827-1895) | ||
| Synonyms | Richard Morris Hunt | ||
| Instance hypernym | architect, designer | ||
| 3. | Hunt (person) British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) | ||
| Synonyms | James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt | ||
| Instance hypernym | author, writer | ||
| 4. | hunt (group) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport | ||
| Synonyms | hunt club | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society | ||
| 5. | hunt (cognition) an instance of searching for something | ||
| Samples | The hunt for submarines. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | search | ||
| 6. | hunt (act) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | ||
| Synonyms | hunting, search | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, ransacking, rummage, scouring, seeking, shakedown | ||
| 7. | hunt (act) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | ||
| Synonyms | hunting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | labor, labour, toil | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | birdnesting, canned hunt, predation, stalk, stalking, still hunt | ||
| 8. | hunt (act) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | ||
| Synonyms | hunting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blood sport, field sport, outdoor sport | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | battue, beagling, coursing, deer hunt, deer hunting, duck hunting, ducking, fox hunting, foxhunt, pigsticking | ||
| Domain category members | bag, batfowl, ensnare, entrap, gin, snare, trammel, trap | ||
English verb: hunt | |||
| 1. | hunt (competition) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | ||
| Samples | Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland. The dogs are running deer. The Duke hunted in these woods. | ||
| Examples | The men hunt the area for animals , The men hunt for animals in the area | ||
| Synonyms | hunt down, run, track down | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | capture, catch | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ambush, course, drive, drive, falcon, ferret, forage, fowl, fowl, foxhunt, hawk, jack, jacklight, poach, rabbit, scrounge, seal, snipe, still-hunt, turtle, whale | ||
| Verb group | hunt, run | ||
| 2. | hunt (motion) pursue or chase relentlessly | ||
| Samples | The hunters traced the deer into the woods. The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him. | ||
| Synonyms | hound, trace | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ferret | ||
| 3. | hunt (motion) chase away, with as with force | ||
| Samples | They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | drive out, force out, rouse, rout out | ||
| 4. | hunt (motion) yaw back and forth about a flight path | ||
| Samples | The plane's nose yawed. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | yaw | ||
| Domain category | aeroplane, airplane, plane | ||
| 5. | hunt (motion) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent | ||
| Samples | The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | oscillate, vibrate | ||
| 6. | hunt (contact) seek, search for | ||
| Samples | She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | look for, search, seek | ||
| 7. | hunt (competition) search (an area) for prey | ||
| Samples | The King used to hunt these forests. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | look, search | ||
| Verb group | hunt, hunt down, run, track down | ||
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