different between hunting vs unhunted

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

un- +? hunted

Adjective

unhunted (not comparable)

1. In which hunting does not take place.
   • 2007, Dustin J. Penn, Iver Mysterud, Evolutionary perspectives on environmental problems

     While there is no difference between encounter rates in the two unhunted sites, the macaques are significantly less common in the hunted areas […]

2. Not hunted.
   • 1985, Stanley H. Anderson, Managing our wildlife resources

     Hunted big game avoided roadways more than unhunted species.

Synonyms

• nonhunted