Hunt vs. Prey — What's the Difference?

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food

An animal hunted or caught by another for food

Search determinedly for someone or something

The collection of animals typically hunted and eaten by a predator

(of a device or system) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state

An object or victim of attack

(in change-ringing) move the place of a bell in a simple progression.

One that is subjected to or afflicted with something

An act of hunting wild animals or game

One that is deceived or taken advantage of by another

A search

The act or practice of preying.

An oscillating motion about a desired speed, position, or state.

Plunder; booty.

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

To hunt, catch, or eat as prey

To search through (an area) for prey

To victimize or make a profit at someone else's expense

To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.

To plunder or pillage

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill

To exert a baneful or injurious effect

To seek out; search for.

(archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away

That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured

To pursue game.

A person or thing given up as a victim.

To make a search; seek.

A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.

(archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.

The victim of a disease.

To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.

(intransitive) To act as a predator.

To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.

Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

The act or sport of hunting

That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

The hunting season for a particular animal

A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence;

A diligent search or pursuit

Animal hunted or caught for food

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

Profit from in an exploitatory manner;

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

Prey on or hunt for;

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

The act of hunting.

A hunting expedition.

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

A pack of hunting dogs.

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.

To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; - often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The game secured in the hunt.

A pack of hounds.

An association of huntsmen.

A district of country hunted over.

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

United States architect (1827-1895)

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

An instance of searching for something;

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);

Pursue or chase relentlessly;

Chase away, with as with force;

Yaw back and forth about a flight path;

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent;

Seek, search for;

Search (an area) for prey;