Definitions for chase
tʃeɪs; ˈsæl mənchase

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pursuit, chase, pursual, followingnoun

   the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

   "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"

2. Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chasenoun

   United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)

3. chaseverb

   a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time

4. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, trackverb

   go after with the intent to catch

   "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

5. chase, chase afterverb

   pursue someone sexually or romantically

6. chaseverb

   cut a groove into

   "chase silver"

7. furrow, chamfer, chaseverb

   cut a furrow into a columns

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chasenoun

   from a nickname for a hunter.

2. Chasenoun

   of modern usage, transferred from the surname.

3. Etymology: Perhaps from châsse, from chasse, from capsa.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chasenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Hunting; pursuit of any thing as game.

   Whilst he was hast’ning, in the chase, it seems,
   Of this fair couple, meets he on the way
   The father of this seeming lady. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   There is no chase more pleasant, methinks, than to drive a thought, by good conduct, from one end of the world to another, and never to lose sight of it till it fall into eternity. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   2. Fitness to be hunted, appropriation to chase or sport.

   Concerning the beasts of chase, whereof the buck is the first, he is called the first year a fawn. William Shakespeare, Love’s L. Lost.

   A maid I am, and of thy virgin train;
   Oh! let me still that spotless name retain,
   Frequent the forests, thy chaste will obey,
   And only make the beasts of chase my prey. Dryden.

   3. Pursuit of an enemy, or of something noxious.

   The admiral, with such ships only as could suddenly be put in readiness, made forth towards them; insomuch as of one hundred ships, there came scarce thirty to work: howbeit, with them, and such as came daily in, we set upon them, and gave them chase. Francis Bacon.

   One day, upon the sudden, he sallied out upon them with certain troops of horsemen, with such violence, that, at the first onset, he overthrew them, and, having them in chase, did speedy execution. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   They seek that joy, which us’d to glow,
   Expanded on the hero’s face;
   When the thick squadrons prest the foe,
   And William led the glorious chase. Matthew Prior.

   4. Pursuit of something as desirable.

   Yet this mad chase of fame, by few pursu’d,
   Has drawn destruction on the multitude. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   5. Hunting match.

   Tell him, h’ath made a match with such a wrangler,
   That all the courts of France will be disturb’d
   With chases. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   6. The game hunted.

   She, seeing the towering of her pursued chase, went circling about, rising so with the less sense of rising. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   Hold, Warwick: seek thee out some other chase,
   For I myself must put this deer to death. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   Honour’s the noblest chase; pursue that game,
   And recompence the loss of love with fame. George Granville.

   7. Open ground stored with such beasts as are hunted.

   A receptacle for deer and game, of a middle nature between a forest and a park; being commonly less than a forest, and not endued with so many liberties; and yet of a larger compass, and stored with greater diversity of game than a park. A chase differs from a forest in this, because it may be in the hands of a subject, which a forest, in its proper nature, cannot; and from a park, in that it is not inclosed, and hath not only a larger compass, and more store of game, but likewise more keepers and overseers. John Cowell.

   He and his lady both are at the lodge,
   Upon the northside of this pleasant chase. William Shakespeare, Tit. And.

   8. The Chase of a gun,is the whole bore or length of a piece, taken withinside. Ephraim Chambers

2. To CHASEverb

   Etymology: chasser, Fr.

   1. To hunt.2. To pursue as an enemy.

   And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. Jud. ix. 40.

   3. To follow as a thing desirable.4. To drive.

   Thus chased by their brother’s endless malice, from prince to prince, and from place to place, they, for their safety, fled at last to the city of Bisennis. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   When the following morn had chas’d away
   The flying stars, and light restor’d the day. Dryden.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chaseverb

   to pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt

2. Chaseverb

   to follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away

3. Chaseverb

   to pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game

4. Chaseverb

   to give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor

5. Chase

   vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt

6. Chase

   that which is pursued or hunted

7. Chase

   an open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace

8. Chase

   a division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point

9. Chasenoun

   a rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed

10. Chasenoun

    the part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon

11. Chasenoun

    a groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile

12. Chasenoun

    a kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats

13. Chaseverb

    to ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like

14. Chaseverb

    to cut, so as to make a screw thread

15. Etymology: [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chase

   chās, v.t. to pursue: to hunt: to drive away, put to flight.—n. pursuit: a hunting: that which is hunted: ground abounding in game.—n. Chase′port, the porthole at the bow or stern of a vessel, through which the chase-gun is fired.—Beasts of chase, properly the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe: wild beasts that are hunted generally.—Wild-goose chase, any foolish or profitless pursuit. [O. Fr. chacier, chasser—L. captāre, freq. of capĕre, to take.]

2. Chase

   chās, v.t. to decorate metal-work, whether hammered or punched up, by engraving the exterior.—ns. Chas′er, one who practises chasing; Chas′ing, the art of representing figures in bas-relief by punching them out from behind, and then carving them on the front: the art of cutting the threads of screws. [Short for Enchase.]

3. Chase

   chās, n. a case or frame for holding types: a groove. [Fr. châsse, a shrine, a setting—L. capsa, a chest. See Case.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. chase

   The vessel pursued by some other, that pursuing being the chaser. This word is also applied to a receptacle for deer and game, between a forest and a park in size, and stored with a larger stock of timber than the latter.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. chase

   In gunnery, is the conical part of the gun in front of the reinforce.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'chase' in Verbs Frequency: #696

Anagrams for chase »

1. aches

2. e-cash

3. ecash

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chase in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chase in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of chase in a Sentence

1. Aneesa McMillan:

   They know we are working hard. It's kind of a chase. They pop up wherever we may be doing our work.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   Let's just cut to the chase, it's guns and we have to have a better balance.

3. Kyle Larson:

   Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset. Kind of held him up, it got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom. I started to get some dive-ins working off of( turn) two, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit, hen he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild.

4. Mickey Mehta:

   There is enough room in the sky to accommodate as many stars, to shine. Stop the rush and chase, approach life with compassion and be unfazed. Reach out there and spread the light of your unique talent, brilliance of your art and let this world be illuminized, get MickeyMized.

5. Vaclav Kozubik:

   The tradition is beautiful, we enjoy it, we run away from those devils, they chase us, it is awesome.

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