hunting

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌntɪŋ/

Definition of hunting

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
    “His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
    “His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  3. (countable, uncountable)Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
    “Bogie hunting is not caused by some sort of periodic disturbance but by dynamic instability; the oscillatory system is not the bogies alone but the complete assembly of bogie-plus-body; and variations in track rigidity do not affect the nature of the motion, only its intensity.”
  4. (countable, uncountable)The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hunt
    “Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

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