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hunting | ryan |

As a noun hunting

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

As a verb hunting

is .

As a proper noun ryan is

common in ireland.

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)

    ryan

    English

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • common in Ireland.
  • derived from the surname, popular in all English-speaking countries from the 1970s to the 1990s.
  • in use since the 1970s, from the surname, or a variant of Rhian. Spelling variant: Ryann.

    • Quotations

    * 1989 Garrison Keillor: We Are Still Married: Lonely Boy . ISBN 0-14-013156-6 page 308: *: "By the way, I forgot your name," she said. I bit off half a burger and chewed it slowly, thinking fast. I didn't think she'd be impressed with the name Wiscnek so I gave her a name I made up when I was little, Ryan Tremaine, a name I used when I played detective. She said, "That's such a beautiful name." * 1999 D.W.Buffa: The Defense : ISBN 1864489073 page 109: *: He never shortened my first name because he never used it. It was part of his perpetual rebellion against West Coast informality. The barber who cut his hair still thought his first name was Ryan because that was the only name he had given the first time he called for an appointment.

    See also

    * Rian *

    Anagrams

    * * English unisex given names ----