chase
part of speech
verb (chase, chases, chased, chasing); noun (a chase, chases)
meaning for a pupil
1) To chase is to run after someone or something to catch it. tree →
2) To chase away is to make someone go away by running after them. tree →
3) A chase is the act of running after someone. tree →
4) To chase a dream is to try hard to get it. tree →
sense in the lessons
one moves after another: speeds, distances, the gap getting smaller; in play: chase and tag games at break time; in science: predators chase prey (a cheetah chases a gazelle); in stories: a police chase, a cat-and-mouse chase; phrases: «chase after», «chase away», «cut to the chase» (get to the main point)
examples
- A dog chases a cat. tree →
- The fox chases 3 rabbits. tree →
- The cat runs 5 m a second and the dog chases at 7. tree →
- How long until he catches up? tree →
- We played chase in the playground. tree →
- The farmer chased the crows away from the corn. tree →
- A cheetah can chase its prey at great speed. tree →
- The film ends with a long car chase. tree →
- She is chasing her dream of becoming a dancer. tree →
- There was his sister chasing him. tree →
note
Catching up: the gap shrinks by the difference of speeds each second (7 − 5 = 2 m a second). Time to catch up = gap ÷ difference of speeds. Past: chased. Safety: never chase a ball into the road.
In the corpora
- City animals are wild animals, so watch them, but do not feed, chase or touch them.
- Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in.
- A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.
- Donkeys, llamas and sheepdogs are used to guard flocks, and a guard donkey will chase away foxes and stray dogs.
- Pigeons are smarter than they look: they can tell people's faces apart and remember who chased them and who fed them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chase» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.