| chase | |
| 1. n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit. | |
| 2. n. A hunt. | |
| 3. n. A children's game where one player chases another. | |
| 4. n. (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted. | |
| 5. n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase. | |
| 7. n. (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 | |
| 8. n. (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 | |
| 9. n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders. | |
| 10. v. To pursue. | |
| 11. v. To follow at speed. | |
| 12. v. To hunt. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To seek to attain. | |
| the team are chasing their first home win this season. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way. | |
| He spends all his free time chasing girls. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her. | |
| 16. v. To dilute alcohol. | |
| Chase vodka with orange juice to make a screwdriver. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, cricket) 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. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch | |
| Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two. | |
| 19. v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed | |
| The rally chased the starter. | |
| 20. n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making. | |
| 21. n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow. | |
| 22. n. (architecture) 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 | |
| 23. n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions. | |
| 24. n. The cavity of a mold. | |
| 25. n. (shipbuilding) 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. | |
| 26. v. To groove; indent. | |
| 27. v. 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) | |
| 28. v. To cut (the thread of a screw). | |
| 29. v. To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing. | |
