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Hunting vs Nonhunting - What's the difference?

hunting | nonhunting |

As a noun hunting

is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.

As a verb hunting

is .

As an adjective nonhunting is

not involved in, or not pertaining to, the sport of hunting.

hunting

English

Noun

  • Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
  • * 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
    • His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
  • Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  • (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.

    • See also

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

    Derived terms

    * hunting ground * job-hunting * house-hunting

    See also

    * ("hunting" on Wikipedia)

    nonhunting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not involved in, or not pertaining to, the sport of hunting.