Hunting

Quick meaning: Hunting is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
2. (engineering) Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
3. (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
4. present participle and gerund of hunt

Example Sentences

His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• huntings

Synonyms for hunting

Depending on context, synonyms include searching, hunt, search.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include search, searching, hunter, manhunt, poaching, toilet.

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