different between hunt vs enterprise

English

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *hunt?n? (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English h?þ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

   • Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

     Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

   • 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound ?ISBN, page 10:

2. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

   The police are hunting for evidence.

3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

   to hunt down a criminal

   He was hunted from the parish.

4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

   • He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

   He hunts the woods, or the country.

6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Derived terms

• hunt where the ducks are
• that dog won't hunt

Translations

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

1. The act of hunting.
2. A hunting expedition.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Thun

Bavarian

Noun

hunt ?

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) dog

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Cimbrian

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Etymology

Most likely from Middle Low German hunt.Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.

Noun

hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)

1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension

Synonyms

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (“dog”). Cognate with German Hund, English hound.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

References

• “hunt” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hont
  • Dutch: hond

Further reading

• “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hunt
  • Alemannic German: Hund

    Alsatian: Hund

    Swabian: Hond

    Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: hunt

    Mòcheno: hunt

    Udinese: hunt

  • Central Franconian: Hond, Honk, Honk

    Hunsrik: Hund

    Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk

  • German: Hund
    • ? Esperanto: hundo
      • Ido: hundo
  • Luxembourgish: Hond
  • Vilamovian: hund
  • Yiddish: ????? (hunt)

English

Alternative forms

• enterprize (chiefly archaic)
• entreprise (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehend?, see prehensile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt??p?a?z/
• Hyphenation: en?ter?prise

Noun

enterprise (countable and uncountable, plural enterprises)

1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

   The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.

   A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.

2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.

   Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.

3. (uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

   He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.

   • 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live

     This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.

4. (uncountable) Active participation in projects. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• initiative

Derived terms

• enterprising
• commercial enterprise
• scientific enterprise

Translations

Verb

enterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)

1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

   • Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia

2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
   • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

     The business must be enterprised this night.

   • c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry

     What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!

3. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

References

• enterprise at OneLook Dictionary Search
• enterprise in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• enterprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• entreprise