(v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
(v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
(v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
(v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
(v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
(v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
(v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
(v.) 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 his ball in order to gain a point.
(n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
(n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
(n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(2) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(5) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(6) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(7) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(8) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(9) Pulse-chase analysis of the labelling of these lipids indicates that PI and lysoPI rapidly equilibrate after the initial slow synthesis of PI.
(10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(11) This result indicates that part of 5'-nucleotidase keeps one or two high-mannose or hybrid chains in the mature form, even after prolonged pulse-chase labeling.
(12) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
(13) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
(14) Surfers chase the reliable swell here when it's flat further west.
(15) The mature molecular mass form of each of these proteins reaches its maximum specific radioactivity in a purified hepatocyte plasma membrane fraction after only 45 min of chase.
(16) In pulse-chase experiments, labelled proteins 26-34 kDa, appeared within 10 min and smaller forms co-migrated with surfactant-associated glycoprotein A from alveolar lavage.
(17) As a consequence of chasing funding, organisations shift their focus away from their areas of expertise into where the money is to sustain themselves.
(18) The secretion kinetics of nine proteins by Hep G2 cells in culture was investigated using pulse-chase techniques and immunoisolation of proteins with monospecific antibodies.
(19) Pulse-chase and long-term labeling experiments revealed different half-lives for the two c-myc-encoded proteins.
(20) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
Chevy
Definition:
(v. t.) See Chivy, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most punk-rock things they ever did was dressing Chevy Chase up for his Ford impression: They didn’t do a damn thing.
(2) Sadly, as Ted's pitch observes, nobody knows what the future contains and in this instance, in all likelihood, it was the Chevy Vega, which according to Car and Driver "is on everyone's list for worst car of all time".
(3) The move comes in advance of the release this year of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, which promise to deliver driving distances of 40 miles or more on a single battery charge and are being marketed to middle-class families.
(4) General Motors introduced its Chevy Bolt battery-electric concept car , a five-door compact that the automaker promised would feature a 200-mile range per charge and a price tag around $30,000 including the federal tax credit available for electric vehicles in the US.
(5) "I love this car," said Luis Fretas, owner of a baby-blue 1981 Chevy Malibu, insisting that it "gets great mileage".
(6) The taxi sign on his battered brown 1983 Chevy Celebrity was held to the roof by a bungee cord.
(7) As the two delegations negotiated the end of the Soviet Union inside the Kremlin, outside KGB agents marvelled at the air conditioning of the secret service agents' Chevy Suburbans, the superior fabric of their suits.
(8) Police chiefs said in the days after the shooting that Brown assaulted Wilson during a struggle at the Chevy Tahoe the officer was driving.
(9) (One of many stumbles, attributable to an old football injury, that provided Chevy Chase with all the material he’d need for his famous impersonation on Saturday Night Live ).
(10) I have never read a woman writing about wanking while fantasising about Chevy Chase (or anyone else; Chevy isn't the radical bit, here, although I do now see him in a whole new light).
(11) Add in the fact that Bert had been hoping to cash in on stock and that Roger has seen his lead at Chevy subverted behind his back and you can understand why SCDP's jungle king has chosen to break the news to a flabbergasted Peggy Olson from the safety of his former rivals' office.
(12) I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Dave Letterman – not an actor, obviously but I’m still impressed by his wit.
(13) The 5.7-litre V8 Chevy engine erupts - and propels us across Covent Garden piazza with such violence I wonder if The Man With No Fear keeps a spare pair of batpants in the glove compartment.
(14) Car enthusiasts ship their classic Mustangs, Fords and Chevys across oceans to cruise this iconic road and experience a true slice of Americana.
(15) The chase began when their car, a 1979 Chevy Malibu, apparently backfired as it passed police headquarters in downtown Cleveland.
(16) It was nine years before Dangerfield reappeared in a film, the low-brow golf comedy Caddyshack (1980), with his Saturday Night Live colleagues Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.
(17) Along with a regular repertory company of collaborators – including actors such as Murray, Aykroyd, John Candy and Chevy Chase and the director Ivan Reitman, who made Meatballs, Stripes and the two Ghostbusters films –Ramis was instrumental in many of the comedy hits of the decade.
(18) As he explains, if this was the US, they’d be in a Chevy, cruising Route 66.
(19) Che’s stand-up is an altogether more relaxed proposition than his role on Saturday Night Live, where he’s the besuited co-anchor of weekly news strand Weekend Update , the slot that made stars of Chevy Chase, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler .
(20) Yes, of course small-town ranchers are rarely seen without their hand-woven straw cowboy hats and way-too-tight Wrangler jeans, but we city folk wear business suits and carry briefcases and drive motorized vehicles – so what if those vehicles are Ford F-150s, Chevy Silverados or Dodge Rams.