hunting

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhʌntɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ

Etymology 1

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From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt +‎ -ing.

Noun

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hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)

  1. 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.
    • 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica:
      His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
  2. The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  3. (engineering) Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
    • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:
      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.
  4. (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
Usage notes
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Although hunting is technically a hypernym for fishing, fishing is generally not thought of as a type of hunting since it involves aquatic animals.

Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Korean: 헌팅 (heonting, flirting with strangers, pickup)
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Etymology 2

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

Verb

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hunting

  1. present participle and gerund of hunt

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