Dictionary Entry
chase
chase is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
- 4intransitive verb
To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
- 5verb
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.
- 6verb
That which is pursued or hunted.
- 7verb
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.
- 8verb
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.
- 9noun
A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
- 10noun
The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
- 11noun
A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
- 12noun
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.
- 13transitive verb
To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
- 14transitive verb
To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
- 15noun
the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
"the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
- 16noun
a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- 17noun
United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
- 18verb
cut a furrow into a columns
- 19verb
cut a groove into
"chase silver"
- 20verb
go after with the intent to catch
"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"
"the dog chased the rabbit"
- 21verb
pursue someone sexually or romantically
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