chase

Meanings

Noun

  • The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
  • A hunt.
  • A children's game where one player chases another.
  • A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  • Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
  • A wild animal that is hunted.
  • Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
  • The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
  • 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 the ball in order to gain a point.
  • One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
  • A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
  • A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
  • A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
  • A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
  • The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
  • The cavity of a mold.
  • 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.

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Origin

  • From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, present active infinitive of captiō, from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō. Compare French chasser ("to hunt”, “to chase"), Spanish cazar ("to hunt"), Portuguese caçar ("to hunt")
  • , see Norwegian skysse ("to hunt")
  • catch.
  • Perhaps from French châsse, from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.
  • Possibly from obsolete French chas, from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase.

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