Hunting

Definitions

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.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
   countable, uncountable
4. Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
   countable, uncountable
5. The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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