(v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
(v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(n.) A pack of hounds.
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(4) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(5) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(6) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
(7) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(11) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(12) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(13) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(14) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(16) Hunt, however, responded to the move on Sunday morning by describing it as opportunism.
(17) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(18) When Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is coping, he needs to really look at what is happening.
(19) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(20) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
Track
Definition:
(n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
(n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
(n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
(n.) A road; a beaten path.
(n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
(n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
(n.) The permanent way; the rails.
(n.) A tract or area, as of land.
(v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
(v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(5) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
(6) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(7) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(9) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
(10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
(11) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
(12) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
(13) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
(14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(15) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(16) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
(18) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(19) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(20) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.