different between hunting vs battue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?nt??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Etymology 1

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt +? -ing.

Noun

hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)

1. The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
   • 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica

     His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.

2. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
3. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
4. (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

Usage notes

Although hunting is technically a hypernym for fishing, fishing is generally not thought of or consider to be a type of hunting since it involves aquatic animals.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cynegetic

Descendants

• Korean: ?? (heonting, “flirting with strangers, pickup”)

Translations

Further reading

• hunting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt +? -ing.

Verb

hunting

1. present participle of hunt

Anagrams

• nuthing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French battue, feminine singular past participle of battre (“to beat; to defeat”), from Late Latin battere, Latin battuere, present active infinitive of batt?, a variant of battu? (“to beat; to fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to hit, strike”). Doublet of battuta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??t(j)u?/, /bæ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bæ?tu/
• Rhymes: -u? (RP)
• Hyphenation: bat?tue

Noun

battue (countable and uncountable, plural battues)

1. (uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. [from early 19th c.]
2. (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.

Related terms

• battu
• batture

Translations

References

French

Etymology

From Portuguese batuda or Italian battuta ("a beating"). See Latin battuo ("to beat").

Pronunciation

Noun

battue f (plural battues)

1. battue; the beating of bushes to force out the game
2. hunt, search

Descendants

• ? English: battue

Verb

battue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of battre

Further reading

• “battue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ébattu

Latin

Verb

battue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of battu?