Hunter vs Spy - What's the difference?
hunter | spy |
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
A dog used in hunting.
A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
One who hunts or seeks after anything.
* Tennyson
A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To act as a spy.
To spot; to catch sight of.
* Jonathan Swift
* Latimer
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
* Shakespeare
To explore; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
* Bible, Numbers xxi. 32
barf (US), vomit, spew
to barf (US), throw up, vomit, spew (also figurative )
As nouns the difference between hunter and spy
is that hunter is one who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman while spy is a person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).As a proper noun Hunter
is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a hunter.As a verb spy is
to act as a spy.hunter
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.
- The hunter becomes the hunted.
- a fortune hunter
- No keener hunter after glory breathes.
Derived terms
* fortune hunter * white hunterSee also
* ("hunter" on Wikipedia) ----spy
English
Noun
(spies)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* spy ringVerb
- During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
- I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
- One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.
- Look about with your eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England.
- It is my nature's plague / To spy into abuses.
- Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof.