Hunt vs. Shag — What's the Difference?

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

A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair.

Search determinedly for someone or something

A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth.

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

Cloth having such a nap.

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

A rug with a thick rough pile.

An act of hunting wild animals or game

Coarse shredded tobacco.

A search

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

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

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

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

To make shaggy; roughen.

To search through (an area) for prey

To perform or execute this dance.

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

To chase and bring back; fetch.

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill

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

To seek out; search for.

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away

To engage in sexual intercourse.

To pursue game.

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

To make a search; seek.

Coarse shredded tobacco.

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.

A type of rough carpet pile.

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.

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

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

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

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

A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.

The act or sport of hunting

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.

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

A swing dance.

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

An act of sexual intercourse.

The hunting season for a particular animal

A casual sexual partner.

A diligent search or pursuit

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

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

(West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.

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

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

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

To hang in shaggy clusters.

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

(intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.

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

To have sexual intercourse with.

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

To have sexual intercourse.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

To masturbate.

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.

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

The act of hunting.

To perform the dance called the shag.

A hunting expedition.

(obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.

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

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.

A pack of hunting dogs.

A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

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.

A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

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.

Any species of cormorant.

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

Hairy; shaggy.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

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

A strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded

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

A matted tangle of hair or fiber;

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

A fabric with long coarse nap;

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

Slang terms for sexual intercourse

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.

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

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Dance the shag

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;