hunting
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- //ˈhʌntɪŋ//
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.
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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.
a hunting rifle with a high-powered scope
His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
- 2
The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
- 3
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.
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The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
Étymologie
From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.
verbe
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Aussi une forme de huntpresent 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.
Étymologie
From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.
Formes
- pluriel
- huntings
hunting · 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.
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