tailing vs chase

tailing and chase both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tailing	Yes	No	No	No
chase	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, chase is a hypernym of tailing; that is, chase is a word with a broader meaning than tailing:

Other hypernyms of tailing include following, pursual, pursuit.

tailing (noun)	chase (noun)
the act of following someone secretly	the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
	a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time

tailing (verb)	chase (verb)
	cut a groove into
	cut a furrow into a columns
	go after with the intent to catch
	pursue someone sexually or romantically