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hunt·ing  (hntng)

n.

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]

n

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting)

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

b.  (as modifier) hunting boots hunting lodge Related adj venatic

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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.

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• 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."

Thesaurus

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

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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]

Translations

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

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hunting [ˈhʌntɪŋ] n

(for sport) → chasse f
I'm against hunting → Je suis contre la chasse. fox-hunting, job hunting
hunting 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 qch
hunting rifle n → fusil m de chasse
hunting season n → saison f de chasse
hunt saboteur n → militant(e) m/f qui participe à des actions directes contre la chasse

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hunting

n

→ 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 …

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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

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hunting → صيد 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