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Prowling vs Hunting - What's the difference?

prowling | hunting |

As verbs the difference between prowling and hunting

is that prowling is while hunting is .

As nouns the difference between prowling and hunting

is that prowling is the act of one who prowls while hunting is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.

prowling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who prowls.
    • nightly prowlings

    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)