Meaning of Chase | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
2. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
3. A surname transferred from the nickname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
   countable, uncountable
4. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
   countable, uncountable
5. 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.
6. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
   countable, uncountable
7. A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
   countable, uncountable
8. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
9. A placename
   countable, uncountable
10. A village and river in British Columbia, Canada.
    countable, uncountable
11. A children's game where one player chases another.
    uncountable
12. The cavity of a mold.
13. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
14. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Alabama.
    countable, uncountable
15. A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
    British, countable, uncountable
16. 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.
17. A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
    countable, uncountable
18. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
    countable, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
20. A wild animal that is hunted.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
21. A city in Rice County, Kansas.
    countable, uncountable
22. Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
    countable, uncountable
23. An unincorporated community in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
    countable, uncountable
24. 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.
    countable, uncountable
25. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
    countable, uncountable
26. 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.
    countable, uncountable
27. A township in Lake County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
28. One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
    countable, uncountable
29. A census-designated place in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
30. A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
    countable, uncountable
31. A town and unincorporated community in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
32. Ellipsis of Chase County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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Examples

“By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.”

“Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.”

“Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.”

“So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.”

“Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.”

“As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,”

“Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death.”

“The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.”

““Chase Strangio is our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none,” said Cecillia Wang, the ACLU’s legal director.”

““We’re in a moment in this country where transgender people in this country are under attack in lawless ways,” said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represented transgender teens at the high court.”

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