What's the difference between bloodhound and hound?

Bloodhound


Definition:

  • (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He arrived in San Francisco in late 2010, after a couple of years trying to get Bloodhound going in Silicon Valley.
  • (2) Alan Measles says you are the same as a 1950s ceramic bloodhound-shaped spirits bottle that plays Roll Out the Barrel when you lift it off the shelf.
  • (3) But back at the Drinkabout, I feel energised, and not just by the Bloodhound Gang.
  • (4) The question is why no TV investigator or newspaper bloodhound ran something 30 or 40 years ago, when the abuse was supposedly current and there were young lives to be rescued.
  • (5) The characteristic, bloodhound-like appearance, which degenerates gradually, of patients with primary hereditary systemic amyloidosis, also called Meretoja's syndrome (MS), is attributable to amyloid degeneration of the craniofacial skin and peripheral facial nerves, but apparently also to amyloid deposits in the muscles; a finding not previously described.
  • (6) Bloodhound has revenues but not profits and Krumeich moved his company to the Mission from Soma in search of lower rents and some soul.
  • (7) She found it occupied by a startup called Bloodhound that had moved in mid-2013 and was paying two and a half times the old rent.
  • (8) Well, sports coverage is a specialism that searches out metaphor like an indefatigable bloodhound hunting down a felon.
  • (9) He has the eyes of a bloodhound who's tired of your shit and the impassive manner of one of Leslie's euthanised hounds, even when he's lamenting broken puppy hearts.
  • (10) A lie can barely go viral before being savaged by the bloodhounds of truth.
  • (11) It's Friday evening, it has just gone seven, and I am walking towards a lift with the Bloodhound Gang's Adam Perry.
  • (12) As a child, I pored over Eagle magazine cut-aways that delved into the workings of everything from Bloodhound missiles to offshore oil rigs.

Hound


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.
  • (n.) A despicable person.
  • (n.) A houndfish.
  • (n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
  • (n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
  • (v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
  • (v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
  • (2) "I was hounded by media from all over the world last year.
  • (3) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
  • (4) The mean concentration of urate in the serum of 80 Dalmatian Coach Hounds was approximately double that in the serum of 99 dogs of other breeds.
  • (5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
  • (6) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
  • (7) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
  • (8) He's hounded out of town in the most hysterical way, but the film is reckless with its logic and fails to observe due processes of plot, milieu, verisimilitude – massive failings when dealing with such a sensitive subject.
  • (9) Most of more than 20 groups contacted by the Guardian reported dozens of new recruits, with children as young as four and six riding to hounds for the first time.
  • (10) They face continuous harassment in Kazakhstan and Vietnam , are under surveillance in the UK , and get hounded by tax authorities in Canada and India.
  • (11) "The constant hounding through so many different mediums and the total lack of privacy or being able to shake him off compounded the fear and made me feel that I would never, ever be free."
  • (12) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
  • (13) But in addition to the grief, there was real anger, because many people feel that Swartz had been hounded to his death by aggressive federal prosecutors.
  • (14) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
  • (15) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
  • (16) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
  • (17) Like Ashdown and Kennedy, they get elected then are either ignored or hounded.
  • (18) Hounding Germans out of work half a century after the last war is altogether different.
  • (19) Fearing stories of haunted hounds and curses, I’m not sure I want to hear it.
  • (20) The environment for expressing opinion and writing has become harsher and harsher in recent years.” Self-censorship was on the rise as writers and publishers tried to second-guess what was acceptable under the new political climate, in which government critics have been hounded or even jailed.

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