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# hound

«hound» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A dog used for hunting, such as a foxhound or bloodhound…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hound, hounds); verb (hound, hounds, hounded, hounding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dog used for hunting, such as a foxhound or bloodhound, with a strong sense of smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#m1)

2) (informal) Any dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#m2)

3) (verb) To chase or bother someone again and again: «hounded by reporters». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#m3)

4) (informal, in compounds) A person who is very keen on something: «a news hound». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories hounds track people and animals by smell; «The Hound of the Baskervilles» is a famous detective story. As a verb it describes pestering: «she hounded her mum for a phone». Phrases: hunting hound, pack of hounds, hound someone, be hounded by.

### examples

- By the "hounded line" and "unbounded line" trom which according to the Pythagoreans everything originated (Diels H. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x1)
- The hounds followed the scent through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x2)
- A bloodhound can follow a trail many hours old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x3)
- Our old hound sleeps by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x4)
- The famous singer was hounded by photographers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x5)
- He hounded his dad for weeks until he got a new bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x6)
- The detective story is about a giant hound on the moor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x7)
- The Hound immediately turned tail and fled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/#x8)

### note

Plural: hounds. A group is a «pack of hounds». As a verb it is negative: hounding someone means not leaving them in peace.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hound» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hound/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.