Definition of Chase

Chase

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.

To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.

Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.

That which is pursued or hunted.

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.

A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.

A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Colin Powell

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley

I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.
Roger Staubach

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
Chevy Chase

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
Dominic Chianese

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal