English Dictionary

chase

/t͡ʃeɪs/

noun

The act of one who chases another; a pursuit. / A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game. / (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.

The chase lasted for hours before the suspect was finally caught.

意味（1）

The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(Britain) 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.

意味（5）

Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.

意味（6）

(obsolete) 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,

意味（7）

(nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.

意味（8）

(real tennis) 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.

意味（9）

(real tennis) 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.

意味（10）

(cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.

意味（11）

(music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.