hunting
part of speech
noun (hunting — uncountable); verb form (-ing of hunt: hunting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Hunting is chasing and killing wild animals for food, sport or to control their numbers. tree →
2) Hunting for something means looking hard for it. tree →
3) Hunting is how predators catch their prey. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, predators like lions, owls, sharks and spiders survive by hunting prey; food chains show who hunts whom; some animals hunt alone and some in packs. In history, early humans were hunter-gatherers. Many places have rules for hunting to protect animals; hunting some animals, like tigers or rhinos, is banned. In everyday life, «house hunting» or «hunting for my shoe». Phrases: «go hunting», «hunting for», «treasure hunting», «egg hunt», «hunting ground».
examples
- Owls go hunting at night. tree →
- Lions hunt in groups called prides. tree →
- I was hunting for my lost sock all morning. tree →
- Early people survived by hunting and gathering. tree →
- Hunting tigers is against the law. tree →
- We went egg hunting at Easter. tree →
- The cat is hunting a mouse in the garden. tree →
- My parents are house hunting. tree →
- A BOY was hunting for locusts. tree →
note
From the verb «hunt»: hunt, hunts, hunted, hunting. Hunting (noun) is uncountable. «Hunting for» = searching for. A person who hunts is a hunter. Do not confuse with «haunting» (ghosts).
In the corpora
- Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.
- Being glad for someone's success without hunting for a catch is part of being a good neighbour.
- American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.
- New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals before people came, so birds like the kiwi and kakapo did not need to fly.
- Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hunting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.