different between hunting vs rummaging

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

Verb

rummaging

1. present participle of rummage

Noun

rummaging (plural rummagings)

1. The act of one who rummages.
   • 1905, Henry James, The Golden Bowl (page 400)

     There was always the impossibility, of course, of finding him anything, the least bit "good," that he wouldn't already, long ago, in his rummagings, have seen himself […]