hunting

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌntɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ

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

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.

Although hunting is technically a hypernym for fishing, fishing is generally not thought of as a type of hunting since it involves aquatic animals.

• → Korean: 헌팅 (heonting, “flirting with strangers, pickup”)

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• hunting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

hunting

1. present participle and gerund of hunt
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

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