hunting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.

   His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.

2. 2
   noun

   Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.

   Bogie hunting is not caused by some sort of periodic disturbance but by dynamic instability; the oscillatory system is not the bogies alone but the complete assembly of bogie-plus-body; and variations in track rigidity do not affect the nature of the motion, only its intensity.

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of hunt

   Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

4. 4
   noun

   the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

5. 5
   noun

   the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

6. 6
   noun

   the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

7. 7
   noun

   The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.

8. 8
   noun

   The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

Etymology

From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.