chase 
chase (c̸hās)
transitive verb chased, chas′·ing
- to follow quickly or persistently in order to catch or harm
- to run after; follow; pursue
- to seek after
- to make run away; drive
- to hunt (game)
- Slang to court aggressively
Etymology: ME chacen, cacchen: see catch
intransitive verb
- to go in pursuit to chase after him
- Informal to go hurriedly; rush to chase around town
noun
- the act of chasing; pursuit
- the hunting of game for sport: often with the
- anything hunted; quarry
- Brit.
- an unenclosed game preserve
- a license to hunt over a specified area or to keep animals there as game
give chase
to chase; pursue
chase (c̸hās)
noun
- a groove; furrow
- the bore of a gun barrel
- a groove or recess in a wall, made to provide space as for a pipe or conduit
- a rectangular metal frame in which pages or columns of type are locked
Etymology: Fr chas, needle's eye < OFr < VL *capsum < L capsa: see case
transitive verb chased, chas′·ing
to make a groove in
chase (c̸hās)
transitive verb chased, chas′·ing
to ornament (metal) by engraving, embossing, etc.
Etymology: aphetic for enchase
Chase (c̸hās)
Chase, Salmon P(ortland) (sal′mən) 1808-73; U.S. jurist; chief justice of the U.S. (1864-73)
Chase, Samuel 1741-1811; Am. Revolutionary leader & U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1796-1811)
chase
v.
Object
- shadow: South were chasing shadows, and despite playing a good hard game, began to leak goals.
- hare: The enamel carried a scene of hunting dogs chasing a hare.
- ball: Ronaldo and Rooney spend most of the game chasing long balls into the channels while Ruud plows a lone furrow up front.
- rainbow: If you listen very carefully you can hear Alice searching for a way out, forever chasing rainbows.
- dragon: When heated the heroin turns black and wriggles like a snake, hence the term ' chasing the dragon ' .
- pack: The gap was to great for the chasing pack to catch Holmes now.
Adjective modifier
- high-speed: Indeed, he seems to like his movies as loud as his comedy and the film lurches between gun-toting set pieces and high-speed chases.
- climactic: By the time we get to the almost criminally enjoyable climactic chase, we're completely and utterly hooked.
- frantic: After a short and frantic chase, one trail veered off to the right and the other continued straight ahead.
- wild: The phenomenon the wise men had followed, always possibly a wild goose chase, had turned out to be for real.
Modifies a noun
- sequence: To further assist with the effect a low level chase sequence was set up covering the area the cast ran through.
- scene: There is even a chase scene that weaves through the Lanes.
Noun used with modifier
- goose: The phenomenon the wise men had followed, always possibly a wild goose chase, had turned out to be for real.
- steeple: Keith Vallis won the steeple chase with Dave Mills finishing 2nd.
- hunter: Trainer Karen Waldron has the 12-year-old in fine form, winning a hunter chase at Warwick last week.
- rooftop: Charlie gets knocked about as a set-up is suspected and a rooftop chase follows, much complicated by the arrival of the Keystone cops.
- car: Where would American cinema be without the car chase or the road movie?
- motorcycle: More accurately this should be renamed ' The Stunt Of Paycheck ' as it mainly covers the motorcycle chase.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: Alan was chasing down the CDF kernel firewall problem.
Preposition: by
- mob: One incident last week reported to Kirkby times involved four 12 yr olds chased by a mob of 30 odd.
All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
He found that a fork in his inexperienced hand was an instrument of chase rather than capture.
Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.
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