What's the difference between chase and scamper?

Chase


Definition:

  • (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.

Scamper


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.
  • (n.) A scampering; a hasty flight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Again Beasley scampers forwards down the left, but Torres does well to tackle at full stretch.
  • (2) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
  • (3) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (4) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
  • (5) 8.50pm BST 18 min: After solid possession play by Real, Bale scampers past three defenders and into the box.
  • (6) 83 min: Messi scampers in from the right and drills a low shot towards the near post, but Cech plunges down and gets the lightest of fingertips on the ball to push it on the post!
  • (7) 3.14pm BST 12 min: Now it's West Ham's turn to threaten, as Downing scampers behind the City defence on the right.
  • (8) As it scampered towards its subsequent escape, fans substituted 'cat' for 'attack' as they chanted: "A cat, a cat; a cat, a cat, a cat!"
  • (9) But we go to deuce and Dimitrov will be pleased to see how much he's making Murray scamper around the baseline.
  • (10) Bayern’s only real mistake in the first half came in the form of Benatia’s poor positioning and mistimed challenge after Frank Lampard had clipped the ball over the top for Agüero to scamper clear.
  • (11) He looks half decent when he gets on the ball, the little scampering lad.
  • (12) 38 min: Welbeck sashays and scampers down the inside-right channel, making himself space just to the right of the D and dragging a shot across the face of goal and out on the left.
  • (13) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
  • (14) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
  • (15) This humble artefact turns characters into cat form, scampering up walls, scratching away enemies and becoming around 60% more adorable – clearly created with internet fandom in mind.
  • (16) Kicking it seemed the easier option, but he decided to get down on one knee and head straight at Bravo, who had time to recover, scamper across his line and save well.
  • (17) 5.05pm BST 3 min: St Zuber goes on a freewheeling run up the left wing and loses the ball, prompting a hoofed thump from City in an attempt to find Aguero as he scampers into the box.
  • (18) A scrawny black dog wanders into the road, sizes up his human visitors and scampers back into the woods.
  • (19) Gareth Bale defiant over fans’ criticism of Real Madrid’s European exit Read more It was now back to square one, and Real again attacked primarily through Marcelo: he scampered forward and played a good low cross for a Bale chance, then his one-two with Ronaldo produced another Bale opportunity, this time a far-post header.
  • (20) Kids steamed past on scooters, ran around in fields, scampered through a forest, all red-cheeked and brazenly healthy.