Hunt vs Bunt - What's the difference?
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To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
* Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
* Tennyson
* 2010 , Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:
To try to find something; search.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= * 2004 , Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:
* 2011 , Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):
To drive; to chase; with down'', ''from'', ''away , etc.
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
* Addison
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
(baseball, softball) The act of bunting
(aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida ) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
(nautical) To swell out.
(rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
As a proper noun hunt
is for a hunter (for game, birds etc).As a noun bunt is
the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.As a verb bunt is
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.hunt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
- State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.
- He after honour hunts , I after love.
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- My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
- What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- He hunts a pack of dogs.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
Derived terms
* hunt where the ducks are * that dog won't huntNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* treasure huntbunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- The bunt of the sail was green.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
See also
* ("bunt" on Wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- Jones bunted the ball.
- Jones bunted .
- We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
- The sail bunts .