different between chase vs succeed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin capti?re, present active infinitive of capti?, from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi?. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”), see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).Doublet of catch.

Alternative forms

• chace (obsolete)

Noun

chase (countable and uncountable, plural chases)

1. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
2. A hunt.
3. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
4. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 14:

     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.

5. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
6. (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.

   Synonym: game

   • 1575, George Gascoigne, The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting, London: Christopher Barker, Chapter 40, p. 111,^[1]

     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,

   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 2,^[2]

     Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,

     For I myself must hunt this deer to death.

7. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
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.
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.
10. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
11. (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.

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Translations

Verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

1. (transitive) To pursue.
   1. (transitive) To follow at speed.
   2. (transitive) To hunt.
   3. (transitive) To seek to attain.

      the team are chasing their first home win this season.

   4. (transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.

      He spends all his free time chasing girls.

   5. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
2. (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser

   I need something to chase this shot with.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed

   The rally chased the starter.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:chase.

Synonyms

• pursue

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• follow

Etymology 2

Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

Noun

chase (plural chases)

1. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.

Translations

Etymology 3

Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase.

Noun

chase (plural chases)

1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
2. (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, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
4. The cavity of a mold.
5. (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.

Translations

Verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

1. (transitive) To groove; indent.
2. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.

3. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
4. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

Translations

Anagrams

• Chaes, Cheas, HACEs, aches, e-cash, ecash

Further reading

• chase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• succede (dated)

Etymology

From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Hyphenation: suc?ceed

Verb

succeed (third-person singular simple present succeeds, present participle succeeding, simple past and past participle succeeded)

1. (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

2. (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

   Synonym: take the place of

3. (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.

4. (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 49

     Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.

5. To support; to prosper; to promote.

   • Succeed my wish and second my design.

6. (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
   1. To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

7. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
8. To go under cover.
9. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

10. (obsolete, rare) To ensue with an intended consequence or effect.

Synonyms

• (follow in order): come after; see also Thesaurus:succeed
• (support; prosper; promote): do well, flourish; see also Thesaurus:prosper

Antonyms

• (follow in order): precede; see also Thesaurus:precede
• (obtain the object desired; accomplish what is attempted or intended): fail, fall on one's face
• (support; prosper; promote): fail

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Anagrams

• succede