(n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
(n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
(n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
(n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
(n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
(n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(2) In rat brain membranes, binding of BHSCYII and of the relatively unselective radioligand [125I]-Bolton-Hunter eledoisin (BHELE) was saturable, reversible and to an NK3 site.
(3) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(4) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(5) Thus, in pregnancies with Hunter-affected fetuses, enzyme levels did not change in the serum of heterozygous mothers until abortion was performed, while in nonaffected fetuses, ISS increased usually very early in pregnancy--as early as the 6th-12th week.
(6) They are standout talents of their generation and will provide a remarkable conclusion to what we all hope will be an incredible evening, with all profits benefiting Scotland’s children’s charities.” Hunter also plans to set aside some seats at the event for local young people.
(7) Subsequent prenatal analyses suggested heterozygosity for the X-linked Hunter syndrome, and this was confirmed by clonal analysis of fibroblasts of the child after birth.
(8) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(9) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(10) In homogenates of guinea pig lung, binding of 125I-Bolton-Hunter-labeled substance P (BHSP), Bolton-Hunter-labeled eledoisin (BHELE), and [125I]iodohistidyl neurokinin A (INKA) was investigated.
(11) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
(12) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(13) Blackburn Hunter said that the cumulative impact of those policies meant that Scottish students doing a typical four year Scottish university course would end up owing more than £20,000, while the poorest faced the heaviest debts.
(14) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(15) Hunter's perforator is a vein which joins the great saphenous vein with the femoral vein by passing through the aponeurosis of the adductor (Hunter's) canal, more or less at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the thigh.
(16) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(17) This 'bacterial beta 2M', radiolabeled with Bolton-Hunter reagent, was able to exchange into papain-solubilized HLA-B7, as determined by Sephadex G-75 chromatography and immune precipitation, indicating that bacterial beta 2M could complex with the heavy chain of HLA-B7.
(18) A modified method is described for the preparation of stable, high specific activity radioiodinated cholecystokinin (CCK) by its conjugation to 125I-Bolton Hunter reagent (125I-BH).
(19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
(20) Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has confirmed it will sell the Newcastle Jets and its A-League licence.
Hunting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunt
(n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
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.