chase

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chase1

▶verb

• 1 pursue in order to catch or catch up with.

• 2 rush or cause to go in a specified direction.

• 3 try to obtain (something owed or required).

  ■ (chase something up) (US chase something down) investigate an unresolved matter further.

▶noun

• 1 an act of chasing.

• 2 (the chase) hunting as a sport.

  ■ Brit. (in place names) an area of unenclosed land formerly reserved for hunting: Cannock Chase.

– phrases
give chase go in pursuit.

– origin ME: from OFr. chacier (v.), chace (n.), based on L. captare ‘continue to take’, from capere ‘take’.

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chase2

▶verb (usu. as adj. chased) decorate (metal) by engraving or inlaying.

– origin ME: appar. from earlier enchase, from OFr. enchasser (see enchase).

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chase3

▶noun (in letterpress printing) a metal frame for holding the composed type and blocks being printed at one time.

– origin C16: from Fr. châsse, from L. capsa (see case2).

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chase4

▶noun

• 1 the part of a gun enclosing the bore.

• 2 a groove or furrow cut in the face of a wall or other surface to receive a pipe.

– origin C17: from Fr. chas ‘enclosed space’.