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Hunt vs. Shag — What's the Difference?

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Hunt

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food
They hunted and fished
In the autumn they hunted deer

Shag

A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair.

Hunt

Search determinedly for someone or something
He desperately hunted for a new job

Shag

A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth.

Hunt

(of a device or system) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state
On weak stereo signals this circuit can hunt over mono and stereo in a very disconcerting manner
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Shag

Cloth having such a nap.

Hunt

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

Shag

A rug with a thick rough pile.

Hunt

An act of hunting wild animals or game
A bear-hunt

Shag

Coarse shredded tobacco.

Hunt

A search
Police launched a hunt for the killer

Shag

A dance step of the 1930s consisting of a hop on each foot in turn.

Hunt

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

Shag

Any of several cormorants, especially Phalacrocorax aristotelis of Europe and North Africa.

Hunt

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

Shag

To make shaggy; roughen.

Hunt

To search through (an area) for prey
Hunted the ridges.

Shag

To perform or execute this dance.

Hunt

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

Shag

To chase and bring back; fetch.

Hunt

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill
Hunted down the escaped convict.

Shag

(Baseball) To chase and catch (fly balls) in practice.

Hunt

To seek out; search for.

Shag

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

Hunt

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away
Hunted the newcomers out of town.

Shag

To engage in sexual intercourse.

Hunt

To pursue game.

Shag

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

Hunt

To make a search; seek.

Shag

Coarse shredded tobacco.

Hunt

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.

Shag

A type of rough carpet pile.

Hunt

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.

Shag

Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.

Hunt

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

Shag

A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.

Hunt

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

Shag

A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.

Hunt

The act or sport of hunting
An enthusiast for the hunt.

Shag

Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.

Hunt

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

Shag

A swing dance.

Hunt

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

Shag

An act of sexual intercourse.

Hunt

The hunting season for a particular animal
Last year's deer hunt.

Shag

A casual sexual partner.

Hunt

A diligent search or pursuit
On a hunt for cheap gas.

Shag

(northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.

Hunt

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.

Shag

(West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.

Hunt

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
The police are hunting for evidence.

Shag

(transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.

Hunt

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
To hunt down a criminal
He was hunted from the parish.

Shag

To hang in shaggy clusters.

Hunt

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
Did you hunt that pony last week?

Shag

(intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.

Hunt

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
He hunts the woods, or the country.

Shag

To have sexual intercourse with.

Hunt

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

Shag

To have sexual intercourse.

Hunt

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Shag

To masturbate.

Hunt

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.

Shag

To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.

Hunt

The act of hunting.

Shag

To perform the dance called the shag.

Hunt

A hunting expedition.

Shag

(obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.

Hunt

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

Shag

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn.

Hunt

A pack of hunting dogs.

Shag

A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

Hunt

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.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Shag

A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

Hunt

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.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Shag

Any species of cormorant.

Hunt

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

Shag

Hairy; shaggy.

Hunt

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
He hunts a pack of dogs.

Shag

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies.

Hunt

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

Shag

A strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded

Hunt

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

Shag

A matted tangle of hair or fiber;
The dog's woolly shag

Hunt

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

Shag

A fabric with long coarse nap;
He bought a shag rug

Hunt

To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.
He after honor hunts, I after love.

Shag

Slang terms for sexual intercourse

Hunt

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.

Shag

A lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn

Hunt

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Shag

Dance the shag

Hunt

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.

Hunt

The game secured in the hunt.

Hunt

A pack of hounds.

Hunt

An association of huntsmen.

Hunt

A district of country hunted over.
Every landowner within the hunt.

Hunt

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Hunt

United States architect (1827-1895)

Hunt

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

Hunt

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Hunt

An instance of searching for something;
The hunt for submarines

Hunt

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

Hunt

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

Hunt

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

Hunt

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);
Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
The dogs are running deer
The Duke hunted in these woods

Hunt

Pursue or chase relentlessly;
The hunters traced the deer into the woods
The detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him

Hunt

Chase away, with as with force;
They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood

Hunt

Yaw back and forth about a flight path;
The plane's nose yawed

Hunt

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent;
The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency

Hunt

Seek, search for;
She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them

Hunt

Search (an area) for prey;
The King used to hunt these forests

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