Difference between Hunting and Hunt

What is the difference between Hunting and Hunt?

Hunting as a verb is to find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. while Hunt as a verb is to chase down prey and (usually) kill it.

Hunting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.

Example sentence: Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Hunt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.To try to find something; search.To ride at a hunt.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of huntingA hunting expeditionAn organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization)

Example sentence: Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

We hope you now know whether to use Hunting or Hunt in your sentence.

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