From en.wiktionary.org:
[Chase]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], [en], from [en], from [en], frequentative of [la].
Compare [fr], [es], [pt] , see [no]. [en] and related to [en]. Displaced
native [ang], [ang], and [ang]. Broadly overtook [ang].
**** Alternative forms
- [en] [obsolete]
**** Noun
[~]
1. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit .
2. A hunt ; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=Elizabeth Gaskell | title=The Grey Woman
|passage=By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her
master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur
de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from
his CHASE the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with
some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the
hill-side.}}
1. * [1=en]
2. [en] A children's game where one player chases another.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] A large country estate where game may be shot or hunt ed.
6. * [14]
7. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
8. [en] A wild animal that is hunt ed.
9. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1575 | author=w:George Gascoigne | title=The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting | location=London | publisher=Christopher Barker | chapter=40 | page=111 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14021.0001.001
|passage=As touching the Harte and such other light CHASES or beasts of
Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the
same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,}}
1. * [V]
2. [en] Any of the gun s that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase .
3. [en] The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court , giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point .
4. [en] A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
5. [en] One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leader s.
6. [en] A series of brief improvise d jazz solo s by a number of musician s taking turns.
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en|in full chase|merry chase|paper chase |Cannock Chase|chase vehicle
|car chase |chase gun |chase plane |chase port |Chasetown |Cranborne Chase
|cut to the chase |devil chase |diagram chase |foot chase |give chase |kiss
chase |lay chase |run chase |[en]
([en])|chasework|chasey|forechase|inchase|paperchase|steeplechase }}
***** Translations
[action of the verb "to chase"]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr] [car etc.]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[hunt]
[country estate]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To pursue .
1. [en] To follow at speed.
2. [en] To hunt .
3. [en] To seek to attain .
4. [en] To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] To pursue a vessel in order to destroy , capture or interrogate her.
2. [en] To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor , typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser .
3. * [en]
4. [en] To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings .
5. [en] To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone , typically an outside pitch.
6. [en] To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
***** Quotations
- [en]
***** Synonyms
- [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |ambulance-chase |chase after |chase away |chase a rainbow,chase
rainbows |chase down |chase moonbeams |chase off |chase one's tail,chase one's
own tail |chase pennies with dollars| chase shadows |chase skirt |chase tail
|chase the dragon |chase up|chase the ace |contour chase |go chase
yourself|chasable|chasee|outchase|rechase }}
***** Translations
[to pursue, to follow at speed]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [abstract] [be] , [be] ; [concrete] [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [abstract] [cs] , [concrete] [cs] ; [cs]
- Danish: [da] (?)
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Dyirbal: [Guwal] [dbl] , [Jalnguy] [dbl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no] , < !--* why star?--> [no] , [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [abstract] [pl] , [concrete] [pl] ; [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [abstract] [ru] , [ru] , [concrete] [ru] , [ru] ; [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] ; [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [abstract] [sk] , [abstract] [sk] ; [sk] , [sk] ; [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [abstract] [uk] , [uk] ; [concrete] [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
[to hunt]
[nautical: to pursue a vessel]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: to attempt to score required number of runs]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[baseball: to swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone] [trans-bottom]
[baseball: to produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
Perhaps from [en], from [en], from [en]. [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate -making.
2. * [en]
***** Translations
[A rectangular steel or iron frame] [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
Possibly from obsolete French [fr], from [en], from Latin [la]. Or perhaps a
shortening or derivative of _enchase_. [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow .
2. [en] A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing ( _archaically spelled_ enchasing ) drainpipe s or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions .
4. The cavity of a mold .
5. [en] A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet , as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[A groove cut in an object]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[A trench or channel for drainpipes or wiring]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Spanish: [es]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[The part of a gun in front of the trunnions]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[The cavity of a mold] [trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To groove ; indent .
2. [en] To place piping or wiring in a groove encase d within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
3. [en] To cut (the thread of a screw).
4. [en] To decorate (metal) by engraving or emboss ing.
***** Translations
[to groove; indent]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to cut (the thread of a screw)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
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*** Anagrams
- [en]