ALL meanings of chase
chase
C c - verb chase If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them. 3
- verb chase Chase is also a noun. 3
- verb chase If you are chasing something you want, such as work or money, you are trying hard to get it. 3
- verb chase If someone chases someone that they are attracted to, or chases after them, they try hard to persuade them to have a sexual relationship with them. 3
- verb chase If someone chases you from a place, they force you to leave by using threats or violence. 3
- verb chase To chase someone from a job or a position or from power means to force them to leave it. 3
- verb chase If you chase somewhere, you run or rush there. 3
- singular noun chase The chase is the activity of hunting animals. 3
- noun chase Chase is often used in the name of horse races in which the horses have to jump over obstacles such as fences or bushes. 3
- verb chase to follow or run after (a person, animal, or goal) persistently or quickly 3
- verb chase to force to run (away); drive (out) 3
- verb chase to court (a member of the opposite sex) in an unsubtle manner 3
- verb chase to pursue persistently and energetically in order to obtain results, information, etc 3
- verb chase to hurry; rush 3
- noun chase the act of chasing; pursuit 3
- noun chase any quarry that is pursued 3
- noun chase an unenclosed area of land where wild animals are preserved to be hunted 3
- noun chase the right to hunt a particular quarry over the land of others 3
- noun chase a ball that bounces twice, requiring the point to be played again 3
- noun chase a rectangular steel or cast-iron frame into which metal type and blocks making up pages are locked for printing or plate-making 3
- noun chase the part of a gun barrel from the front of the trunnions to the muzzle 3
- noun chase a groove or channel, esp one that is cut in a wall to take a pipe, cable, etc 3
- verb chase to cut a groove, furrow, or flute in (a surface, column, etc) 3
- verb chase to ornament (metal) by engraving or embossing 3
- verb chase to form or finish (a screw thread) with a chaser 3
- noun chase ˈSalmon P(ortland) (ˈsælmən ) ; salˈmən) 1808-73; U.S. jurist; chief justice of the U.S. (1864-73) 3
- noun chase Samuel1741-1811; Am. Revolutionary leader & U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1796-1811) 3
- verb transitive chase to follow quickly or persistently in order to catch or harm 3
- verb transitive chase to run after; follow; pursue 3
- verb transitive chase to seek after 3
- verb transitive chase to make run away; drive 3
- verb transitive chase to hunt (game) 3
- verb transitive chase to court aggressively 3
- intransitive verb chase to go in pursuit 3
- intransitive verb chase to go hurriedly; rush 3
- noun chase the hunting of game for sport 3
- noun chase anything hunted; quarry 3
- noun chase an unenclosed game preserve 3
- noun chase a license to hunt over a specified area or to keep animals there as game 3
- noun chase a groove; furrow 3
- noun chase the bore of a gun barrel 3
- noun chase a groove or recess in a wall, made to provide space as for a pipe or conduit 3
- noun chase a rectangular metal frame in which pages or columns of type are locked 3
- verb transitive chase to make a groove in 3
- verb transitive chase to ornament (metal) by engraving, embossing, etc. 3
- verb with object chase to ornament (metal) by engraving or embossing. 1
- verb with object chase to cut (a screw thread), as with a chaser or machine tool. 1
- verb without object chase to follow in pursuit: to chase after someone. 1
- verb without object chase to rush or hasten: We spent the weekend chasing around from one store to another. 1
- noun chase Mary Ellen, 1887–1973, U.S. educator, novelist, and essayist. 1