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CHASE
pursuit, chase, pursual, following
(noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; “the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit”
chase
(noun) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase
(noun) United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
furrow, chamfer, chase
(verb) cut a furrow into a columns
chase
(verb) cut a groove into; “chase silver”
chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track
(verb) go after with the intent to catch; “The policeman chased the mugger down the alley”; “the dog chased the rabbit”
chase, chase after
(verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Chase
A surname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
A male given name from surnames, of modern usage.
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Alabama.
A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough borough, Alaska.
A village and river in British Columbia, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
A city in Rice County, Kansas.
An unincorporated community in Franklin Parish parish, Louisiana.
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
A census-designated place in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
A town and unincorporated community in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
Anagrams
• Chaes, Cheas, aches, e-cash, ecash
Etymology 1
Noun
chase (countable and uncountable, plural chases)
The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
A hunt.
(uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
(British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
(obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
Synonym: game
(nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
(real tennis) 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 the ball in order to gain a point.
(cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
Verb
chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)
(transitive) To pursue.
(transitive) To follow at speed.
(transitive) To hunt.
(transitive) To seek to attain.
(transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
(transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
(transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser
(transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
(transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch
(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed
Synonyms
• pursue
Etymology 2
Noun
chase (plural chases)
(printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
Etymology 3
Noun
chase (plural chases)
A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
(architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
The cavity of a mold.
(shipbuilding) 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.
Verb
chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)
(transitive) To groove; indent.
(transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
(transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
(transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
Anagrams
• Chaes, Cheas, aches, e-cash, ecash
Source: Wiktionary
Chase, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chased; p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.] Etym: [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.]
1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.
2. 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. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles.
3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game. Chasing each other merrily. Tennyson.
Chase, v. i.
Definition: To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]
Chase, n. Etym: [Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See Chase, v.]
1. 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. "This mad chase of fame." Dryden. You see this chase is hotly followed. Shak.
2. That which is pursued or hunted. Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. Shak.
3. 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. [Eng.]
4. (Court Tennis)
Definition: 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. Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued.
– Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired.
– Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.
Chase, n. Etym: [F. cháse, fr. L. capsa box, case. See Case a box.] (Print.)
1. A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
3. A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
4. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: 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.
Chase, v. t. Etym: [A contraction of enchase.]
1. To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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