English Dictionary

hunt

/hʌnt/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

He likes to hunt for deer in the forest.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

1611, The Holy Bible,… (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 27:5–passageEsau went to the field to hunt for venison.:

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

He after honour hunts, I after love.

意味（3）

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

to hunt down a criminal

意味（4）

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

意味（5）

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

He hunts the woods, or the country.

意味（6）

(bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

意味（7）

(bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.

意味（8）

(engineering, 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.

[…] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.