Hunt vs Scavenge - What's the difference?
hunt | scavenge |
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 collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material
to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities
to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle
to feed on carrion or refuse
As a proper noun hunt
is for a hunter (for game, birds etc).As a verb scavenge is
to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.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.
