hunt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of hunting.
    — Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
  2. A hunting expedition.
  3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
  4. A pack of hunting dogs.
动词 v.
  1. To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. ambitransitive
    — State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
  2. To try to find something; search (for). ambitransitive
    — The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
  3. To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. transitive
    — to hunt down a criminal
  4. To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting. transitive
    — Did you hunt that pony last week?
  5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game. transitive
    — He hunts the woods, or the country.
  6. To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. transitive
  7. To shift up and down in order regularly. intransitive
  8. 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. intransitive
    — […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.

词形变化

hunts present,singular,third-person hunting participle,present hunted participle,past hunted past hunts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
book-hunt bookhunter bowhunt headhunt head-hunt house-hunt Hunt huntable hunt-and-peck hunt and peck hunt down hunted huntee Hunter hunteress hunting hunt out huntress Huntsman hunt the gowk hunt the slipper hunt up hunt where the ducks are hunt where the ducks were job-hunt outhunt overhunt proverbs hunt in pairs run with the hare and hunt with the hounds snark hunt spider-hunting wasp still-hunt that dog won't hunt that old dog won't hunt thrill of the hunt trophy-hunt you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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