battue vs hunting

battue and hunting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
battue	Yes	No	No	No
hunting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hunting is a hypernym of battue; that is, hunting is a word with a broader meaning than battue:

battue: a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
hunting: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Other hypernyms of battue include hunt.

battue (noun)	hunting (noun)
a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter	the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
indiscriminate slaughter	the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
	the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone