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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
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chase

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chase has 3 senses

Verb chase has 4 senses

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CIDE DICTIONARY
chase, v. t. [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.].
  •  To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.  [1913 Webster]
    "We are those which chased you from the field."  [1913 Webster]
    "Philologists, who chase
    A panting syllable through time and place.    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.  [1913 Webster]
    "Chasing each other merrily."  [1913 Webster]
chase, v. i. 
     To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.  [1913 Webster]
chase, n. [Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See Chase, v.].
  •  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.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
    "You see this chase is hotly followed."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is pursued or hunted.  [1913 Webster]
    "Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
    For I myself must hunt this deer to death.    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
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. -- cut to the chase (Film), a term used in action movies meaning, to shift the scene to the most exciting part, where someone is being chased. It is used metaphorically to mean “get to the main point”.
chase, n. [F. cháse, fr. L. capsa box, case. See Case a box.].
  •  A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
chase, v. t. [A contraction of enchase.].
  •  To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To cut, so as to make a screw thread.  [1913 Webster]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
chase, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. pursue in order to catch.
2 tr. (foll. by from, out of, to, etc.) drive.
3 intr. a (foll. by after) hurry in pursuit of (a person). b (foll. by round etc.) colloq. act or move about hurriedly.
4 tr. (usu. foll. by up) colloq. pursue (overdue work, payment, etc. or the person responsible for it).
5 tr. colloq. a try to attain. b court persistently and openly.
--n.
1 pursuit.
2 unenclosed hunting-land.
3 (prec. by the) hunting, esp. as a sport.
4 an animal etc. that is pursued.
5 = STEEPLECHASE.

Idiom
go and chase oneself (usu. in imper.) colloq. depart.
chase, v.tr. emboss or engrave (metal).

chase, n. Printing a metal frame holding composed type.

chase, n.
1 the part of a gun enclosing the bore.
2 a trench or groove cut to receive a pipe etc.

Etymology
F chas enclosed space f. Prov. ca(u)s f. med.L capsum thorax
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THESAURUS

chase

Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, address, afforestation, arboretum, assemble, beat, beat back, beau, bedog, bezel, boil, bolt, boondocks, boot out, boss, brush off, bundle, bush, bushveld, bustle, career, carve, cast, chamfer, charge, chase away, chase off, chase out, chevy, chink, chisel, chivy, chuck, climax forest, cloud forest, come after, come behind, corrugation, course, coursing, court, crack, cranny, crowd, cut, cynegetics, dado, dash, dash off, dash on, dendrology, dismiss, dog, dogging, double-time, drive, drive away, drive back, drive off, drive out, drum out, eject, emboss, engrave, engraving, esquire, evict, extrude, falcon, falconry, fend off, festinate, flat race, fling, flush, flute, fluting, follow, follow the hounds, follow up, follow-up, following, force out, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, found, fowl, fox hunting, freeze out, fringing forest, furrow, gallery forest, gash, get going, get moving, give chase, go after, go behind, go hunting, gouge, grave, greenwood, groove, gun, gunning, handicap, handicap race, hanger, harness race, harry out, hasten, hawk, hawking, heel, hold off, hollo after, horse race, hound, hue and cry, hunt, hunt down, hunt out, hunting, hurdle race, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, incision, index forest, insculpture, jack, jacklight, jungle, jungles, keep off, kick out, lash, lay siege to, leap, lose no time, make after, make haste, make suit to, microgroove, model, mold, move behind, move quickly, national forest, out, pack off, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pay attention to, pay court to, pine barrens, plate race, plunge, post, press on, prey, primeval forest, prosecute, prosecution, protection forest, prowl after, purse race, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, push back, push on, push out, put back, put to flight, quarry, quarter-horse race, quest, quest after, rabbet, race, rain forest, raise, raise the hunt, rebuff, reforestation, refuse, repel, repulse, ride to hounds, ridge, rifling, rout, rout out, ruck, run, run after, run out, rush, rush through, rut, scamper, score, scramble, scratch, scrub, scrubland, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, scurry, scuttle, search, searching, seek, seek out, seeking, selection forest, send away, send off, send packing, serenade, shadow, shadowing, shikar, shoot, shooting, shrubland, silviculture, slit, smoke out, snub, solder, spark, speed, sport, sporting, sprout forest, spurn, spurt, squire, stake, stake race, stalk, stalking, stand of timber, start, state forest, steeplechase, still hunt, still-hunt, streak, stria, striation, string along, sue, sulcation, sulcus, swain, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, sweetheart, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, tailgate, take out after, tear, throw out, thrust back, timber, timberland, track, tracking, tracking down, trail, trail after, trailing, tread close upon, tree veld, trotting race, turn back, venery, virgin forest, ward off, weld, well-worn groove, wildwood, woo, wood, woodland, woods, wrinkle
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Pursuit

N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.

VB pursue, prosecute, follow, run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after, shadow, carry on, engage in, set about, endeavor, court, seek, aim at, follow the trail, fish for, press on, run a race, chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound, tread on the heels, follow on the heels of, rush upon, rush headlong, ride full tilt at, run full tilt at, make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down, start game, tread a path, take a course, hold a course, shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course, play a game, fight one's way, elbow one's way, follow up, take to, take up, go in for, ride one's hobby.

Ornament

VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.

Convexity

VB be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise, emboss, chase, belly out.

Repulsion

VB repel, push from, drive apart, drive from, chase, dispel, retrude, abduce, abduct, send away, repulse, keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder, send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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