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chase

1 [cheys]

verb, chased, chas⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.

2.	to pursue with intent to capture or kill, as game; hunt: to chase deer.

3.	to follow or devote one's attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc.: He chased her for three years before she consented to marry him.

4.	to drive or expel by force, threat, or harassment: She chased the cat out of the room.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to follow in pursuit: to chase after someone.

6.	to rush or hasten: We spent the weekend chasing around from one store to another.

–noun

7.	the act of chasing; pursuit: The chase lasted a day.

8.	an object of pursuit; something chased.

9.	Chiefly British. a private game preserve; a tract of privately owned land reserved for, and sometimes stocked with, animals and birds to be hunted.

10.	British. the right of keeping game or of hunting on the land of others.

11.	a steeplechase.

12.	the chase, the sport or occupation of hunting.

—Verb phrase

13.	give chase, to pursue: The hunt began and the dogs gave chase.

—Idiom

14.	cut to the chase, Informal. to get to the main point.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME chacen < MF chasser to hunt, OF chacier < VL *captiāre; see catch

Related forms:

chase⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
4. oust, rout, scatter. 7. hunt, quest.

chase

2 [cheys]

–noun

1.	a rectangular iron frame in which composed type is secured or locked for printing or platemaking.

2.	Building Trades. a space or groove in a masonry wall or through a floor for pipes or ducts.

3.	a groove, furrow, or trench; a lengthened hollow.

Ordnance.

a.	the part of a gun in front of the trunnions.

b.	the part containing the bore.

Origin:
1570–80; < MF chas, chasse < LL capsus (masc.), capsum (neut.) fully or partly enclosed space, var. of capsa case ²

chase

3 [cheys]

–verb (used with object), chased, chas⋅ing.

1.	to ornament (metal) by engraving or embossing.

2.	to cut (a screw thread), as with a chaser or machine tool.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME chased (ptp.); aph. var. of enchase

Chase

[cheys]

–noun

1.	Mary Ellen, 1887–1973, U.S. educator, novelist, and essayist.

2.	Sal⋅mon Portland [sal-muhn] Show IPA , 1808–73, U.S. jurist and statesman: secretary of the Treasury 1861–64; Chief Justice of the U.S. 1864–73.

3.	Samuel, 1741–1811, U.S. jurist and leader in the American Revolution: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1796–1811.

4.	Stuart, 1888–1985, U.S. economist and writer.

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chase¹ (chās)

v. chased, chas·ing, chas·es

v. tr.

To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue: chased the thief.
To follow (game) in order to capture or kill; hunt: chase foxes.
To seek the favor or company of persistently: chased me until I agreed to a date.
To put to flight; drive: chased the dog away.
Baseball To cause (an opposing pitcher) to be removed from a game by batting well.

v. intr.

To go or follow in pursuit.
Informal To go hurriedly; rush: chased all over looking for us.

The act of chasing; pursuit.
1. The hunting of game: the thrill of the chase.
2. Something that is hunted or pursued; quarry.
3. A privately owned, unenclosed game preserve.
4. The right to hunt or keep game on the land of others.
Chiefly British
1. A privately owned, unenclosed game preserve.
2. The right to hunt or keep game on the land of others.

[Middle English chasen, to hunt, from Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captāre, to catch; see catch.]

chase² (chās)

n. Printing
A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate making.

[Perhaps from French châsse, case, reliquary, from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.]

chase³ (chās)

1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
2. A trench or channel for drainpipes or wiring.
The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
The cavity of a mold.

tr.v. chased, chas·ing, chas·es

To groove; indent.
To cut (the thread of a screw).
To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

[Possibly from obsolete French chas, groove, enclosure, from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. V., variant of enchase.]

Chase (chās)

American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1864-1873). He presided over the trial of President Andrew Johnson (1868).

Chase, Samuel 1741-1811.
American jurist and Revolutionary War leader who was a delegate to the Continental Congresses, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1796-1811).

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Chase

Chase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chased; p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.] [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.]

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

We are those which chased you from the field. --Shak.

Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. --Cowper.

2. 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.

Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. --Knolles.

3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

Chasing each other merrily. --Tennyson.

Chase

Chase\, v. i. To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]

Chase

Chase\, n. [Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See Chase, v.]

1. 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. "This mad chase of fame." --Dryden.

You see this chase is hotly followed. --Shak.

2. That which is pursued or hunted.

Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. --Shak.

3. 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. [Eng.]

4. (Court Tennis) 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.

Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued.

Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired.

Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.

Chase

Chase\, n. [F. ch['a]se, fr. L. capsa box, case. See Case a box.] (Print.) 1. A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

2. (Mil.) The part of a cannon from the re["e]nforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

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

4. (Shipbuilding) 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.

Chase

Chase\, v. t. [A contraction of enchase.]

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

2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

Language Translation for : chase

Spanish: perseguir,

German: jagen,

Japanese: 追跡する

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chase

1297, from O.Fr. chacier "to catch, seize," from V.L. *captiare (see catch). Meaning of "run after" developed c.1350. Chaser "water or mild beverage taken after a strong drink" is Amer.Eng. slang, first recorded 1897. Fr. chasse (from chasser "to chase") was a drink of liquor taken (or said to be taken) to kill the aftertaste of coffee or tobacco.

chase

see ambulance chaser; cut to the chase; give chase; go fly a kite (chase yourself); lead a merry chase; run (chase) after; wild goose chase.

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