hunting

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The activity of finding and killing wild animals for sport or for food and clothing.

   Hunting once provided most of the meat that families ate through winter.

   Many people enjoy hunting in the fall when deer are plentiful.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   Looking hard for something you want, such as a job or a place to live.

   Job hunting can be stressful when you really need the money.

   She spent all spring apartment hunting across the city.

   Similarsearching, seeking

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of hunt. Use this form for the action as it is happening.

   The lions were hunting near the river at dusk.

   He is hunting for his keys all over the house again.

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   A back-and-forth movement in a machine or system that will not settle down.

   Like a swing that keeps going back and forth and never stops in the middle.

   The engine speed kept changing because of hunting in the control system.

   Engineers added a damper to stop the hunting in the motor.

   Similaroscillation, fluctuation, instability

   Oppositestability

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   A way of choosing which phone line in a group will take an incoming call.

   Like knocking on doors one by one until you find one that opens.

   Hunting lets the system send your call to the next free line.

   When the first line is busy, hunting passes the call to another one.

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