chase

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
2. (countable, uncountable)A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.

   “By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.”

   “Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.”

3. (uncountable)A children's game where one player chases another.

   “Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.”

   “So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.”

4. (British, countable, uncountable)A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.

   “Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.”

5. (countable, uncountable)Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A wild animal that is hunted.

   “As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,”

   “Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death.”

7. (countable, uncountable)Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
8. (countable, uncountable)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.
9. (countable, uncountable)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.
10. (countable, uncountable)One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
11. (countable, uncountable)A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
12. A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.

    “The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.”

13. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
14. 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.
15. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
16. The cavity of a mold.
17. 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.

verb

1. (transitive)To pursue.
2. (transitive)To pursue.
3. (transitive)To pursue.

   “The team are chasing their first home win this season.”

4. (transitive)To pursue.

   “He spends all his free time chasing girls.”

   “She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak.”

   “But here's my number, so call me, maybe / And all the other boys try to chase me”

5. (transitive)To pursue.
6. (transitive)To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.

   “I need something to chase this shot with.”

   “[He] chases his bedtime Valium with Johnny Walker Red.”

   “John ordered quite a few drinks. I think I stopped at four. He kept ordering straight shots of tequila and chasing them with a beer. Then he’d tear off the filter on his cigarette before smoking it.”

7. (transitive)To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.

   “Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.”

8. (transitive)To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.

   “Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.”

9. (transitive)To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

   “The rally chased the starter.”

10. (transitive)To groove; indent.
11. (transitive)To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.

    “chase the pipe”

12. (transitive)To cut (the thread of a screw).
13. (transitive)To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname transferred from the nickname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
2. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

   ““Chase Strangio is our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none,” said Cecillia Wang, the ACLU’s legal director.”

   ““We’re in a moment in this country where transgender people in this country are under attack in lawless ways,” said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represented transgender teens at the high court.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A placename
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13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)A placename