[tʃeɪs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- pursue in order to catch or catch up with
(e.g: police chased the stolen car through the city)

- drive or cause to go in a specified direction
(e.g: she chased him out of the house)

- try to obtain (something owed or required)
(e.g: the company employs people to chase up debts)


Phrases:
- beast of the chase
- chase shadows
- chase the game
- give chase
- go and chase oneself

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French chacier (verb), chace (noun), based on Latin captare ‘continue to take’, from capere ‘take’

[tʃeɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of pursuing someone or something
(e.g: they captured the youths after a brief chase)


Phrases:
- beast of the chase
- chase shadows
- chase the game
- give chase
- go and chase oneself

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French chacier (verb), chace (noun), based on Latin captare ‘continue to take’, from capere ‘take’

[tʃeɪs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- engrave (metal, or a design on metal)
(e.g: they didn't have foundries to cast or chase metal)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: apparently from earlier enchase, from Old French enchasser

[tʃeɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in letterpress printing) a metal frame for holding the composed type and blocks being printed at one time


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century: from French châsse, from Latin capsa ‘box’ (see case)

[tʃeɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the part of a gun enclosing the bore

- a groove or furrow cut in the face of a wall or other surface to receive a pipe or wire


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: from French chas ‘enclosed space’, from Provençal cas, caus, from medieval Latin capsum ‘thorax or nave of a church’