Hunt vs Look - What's the difference?
hunt | look |
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).
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
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, title= To appear, to seem.
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*170? , (Joseph Addison),
*:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 *2012 ,
*:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
(lb) To give an appearance of being.
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To search for, to try to find.
To face or present a view.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 1
*:the east gatewhich looketh eastward
To expect or anticipate.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall
(lb) To express or manifest by a look.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
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To make sure of, to see to.
*1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),
*:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.
To show oneself in looking.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My toes look through the overleather.
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
To seek; to search for.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Looking my love, I go from place to place.
To expect.
:(Shakespeare)
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.
(senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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The action of looking, an attempt to see.
(label) Physical appearance, visual impression.
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A facial expression.
In transitive terms the difference between hunt and look
is that hunt is to use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting while look is to express or manifest by a look.As verbs the difference between hunt and look
is that hunt is to chase down prey and (usually) kill it while look is to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.As nouns the difference between hunt and look
is that hunt is the act of hunting while look is the action of looking, an attempt to see.As proper nouns the difference between hunt and look
is that hunt is {{surname|A=An English occupational|lang=en|from=occupations}} for a hunter (for game, birds etc) while Look is {{surname|from=given names}.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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- 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 huntlook
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
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