hunt vs scouring
scouring vs hunthunt and scouring both are nouns.
hunt is a verb but scouring is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hunt | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| scouring | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
scouring is a hyponym of
hunt; that is, scouring is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
hunt:
- hunt: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- scouring: moving over territory to search for something
Other hyponyms of hunt include
exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, seeking, ransacking, rummage, shakedown.
| hunt (noun) | scouring (noun) |
|---|---|
| the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
| the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | moving over territory to search for something |
| the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | |
| an instance of searching for something | |
| an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport |
| hunt (verb) | scouring (verb) |
|---|---|
| pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | |
| search (an area) for prey | |
| seek, search for | |
| pursue or chase relentlessly | |
| chase away, with as with force | |
| yaw back and forth about a flight path | |
| oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent |
Words related to "hunt"
- activity
- aeroplane
- airplane
- ambush
- bag
- batfowl
- battue
- beagling
- birdnesting
- blood sport
- canned hunt
- capture
- catch
- chase
- chase after
- club
- course
- coursing
- deer hunt
- deer hunting
- dog
- drive
- drive out
- duck hunting
- ducking
- ensnare
- entrap
- exploration
- falcon
- ferret
- field sport
- forage
- foraging
- force out
- fowl
- fox hunting
- foxhunt
- frisk
- frisking
- gild
- gin
- give chase
- go after
- guild
- hawk
- hound
- hunt
- hunt club
- hunt down
- hunter
- hunting
- jack
- jacklight
- labor
- labour
- lodge
- look
- look for
- looking
- looking for
- manhunt
- order
- oscillate
- outdoor sport
- pigsticking
- plane
- poach
- predation
- quest
- rabbit
- ransacking
- rouse
- rout out
- rummage
- run
- scouring
- scrounge
- seal
- search
- seek
- seeking
- shakedown
- snare
- snipe
- social club
- society
- stalk
- stalking
- still hunt
- still-hunt
- tag
- tail
- toil
- trace
- track
- track down
- trail
- trammel
- trap
- turtle
- vibrate
- whale
- yaw
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