Hunt vs Runt - What's the difference?
hunt | runt |
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 smallest animal of a litter, or,
The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
(computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
As nouns the difference between hunt and runt
is that hunt is the act of hunting while runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or.As a verb hunt
is to chase down prey and (usually) kill it.As a proper noun Hunt
is {{surname|A=An English occupational|lang=en|from=occupations}} for a hunter (for game, birds etc).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 huntrunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.