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Meaning of "pothunting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POTHUNTING

pothunting  [ˈpɒtˌhʌntɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POTHUNTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pothunting is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POTHUNTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pothunting in the English dictionary

The first definition of pothunting in the dictionary is the act of hunting for food without regard to the rules or spirit of sport. Other definition of pothunting is the act of searching for archaeological items to sell for profit. Pothunting is also the act of entering competitions purely in order to collect trophies.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POTHUNTING


accounting
əˈkaʊntɪŋ
antihunting
ˌæntɪˈhʌntɪŋ
bargain-hunting
ˈbɑːɡɪnˌhʌntɪŋ
boar-hunting
ˈbɔːˌhʌntɪŋ
bunting
ˈbʌntɪŋ
counting
ˈkaʊntɪŋ
disappointing
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ
flat-hunting
ˈflætˌhʌntɪŋ
fortune-hunting
ˈfɔːtʃuːnˌhʌntɪŋ
house-hunting
ˈhaʊshʌntɪŋ
hunting
ˈhʌntɪŋ
mounting
ˈmaʊntɪŋ
nonhunting
ˌnɒnˈhʌntɪŋ
painting
ˈpeɪntɪŋ
parenting
ˈpɛərəntɪŋ
pointing
ˈpɔɪntɪŋ
printing
ˈprɪntɪŋ
shunting
ˈʃʌntɪŋ
wanting
ˈwɒntɪŋ
witch-hunting
ˈwɪtʃˌhʌntɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POTHUNTING

pothead
pothecaries
pothecary
potheen
pother
potherb
pothery
potholder
pothole
potholer
potholing
pothook
pothouse
pothunter
potiche
potichomania
potin
potion
Potiphar
potjie

WORDS THAT END LIKE POTHUNTING

acting
banting
business accounting
business-accounting
chanting
consenting
daunting
dissenting
enchanting
face painting
financial accounting
haunting
merchanting
not counting
offset printing
oil painting
panting
ranting
screen printing
unrelenting
venting

Synonyms and antonyms of pothunting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pothunting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POTHUNTING

Find out the translation of pothunting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pothunting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pothunting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pothunting
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pothunting
570 millions of speakers

English

pothunting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pothunting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pothunting
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pothunting
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pothunting
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pothunting
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pothunting
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggosok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pothunting
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pothunting
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pothunting
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pothunting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pothunting
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pothunting
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पथुनटिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pothunting
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pothunting
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pothunting
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pothunting
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pothunting
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pothunting
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pothunting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pothunting
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pothunting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pothunting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POTHUNTING»

The term «pothunting» is barely ever used and occupies the 202.592 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POTHUNTING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pothunting» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pothunting» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pothunting

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTHUNTING»

Discover the use of pothunting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pothunting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse ...
Yet by 2004, high-tech pothunting was still going on all over the Southwest. The most ambitious grave-robbers are known to use helicopters and armed bodyguards to abet their crimes. To unearth the pots that fetch the highest prices on the ...
David Roberts, 2006
2
General Management Plan El Malpais National Conservation ...
Monitoring for Illegal Excavations: Pothunting (a form of subsurface disturbance) is an illegal activity that can have drastic effects on cultural resources. It is particularly difficult to monitor, because years may pass in a given area with no ...
‎1991
3
The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on ...
Here again, the value of dialogue in the interpretation of culture is underlined. pothunting, metal detecting and the value of portable antiquities Pothunting is one of the most rampant and culturally acceptable forms of context destruction.
Chris Scarre, Geoffrey Scarre, 2006
4
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? ...
10 "DE-MARKETING" POTHUNTING Harvey Shields, a research analyst with the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration, discussed the possibility of adapting marketing strategies to help identify and reach individuals who engage in illegal  ...
Phyllis Mauch Messenger, 1999
5
Draft environmental statement on grazing management in the ...
Also, because access would be limited, there would be a reduction in the amount of pothunting. There would be no impact on cultural resource sites or districts potentially eligible or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Facilities ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Roswell District Office, 1979
6
Voices of a Thousand People: The Makah Cultural and Research ...
Maybe it was just for souvenirs. (Denney 1995) In late summer or early fall 1969, an Olympic Park ranger notified the Makah Tribe of rumors that tourists were pothunting at Ozette at a location where stream erosion was removing artifacts from ...
Patricia Pierce Erikson, 2005
7
The Crisis of Pothunting: What South Carolinians Can Do to Help
Essay re the ways that South Carolinians can stop vandalism and looting of cultural sites.
Michael Trinkley, William F. Vartorella, Chicora Foundation, 1992
8
Boys' Life
Unfortunately, some Scouts at times have engaged in pothunting; this never should happen. 2. Learn about archaeology and the American Indians. Some books are listed at the end of this article. You also can learn by doing archaeology in a ...
9
Sam Dellinger
The initial peak of pothunting in Carden Bottom and other localities along the Arkansas River, as well as along the Petit Jean River, occurred while Dellinger was completing his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.
Robert C. Mainfort, 2008
10
Protecting the past
Much attention has been focused on the pothunting problem on federal lands, and rightly so; such pothunting not only violates the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) and the Antiquities Act, but can be defined as theft of ...
George S. Smith, John E. Ehrenhard, 1991

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POTHUNTING»

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Pennsylvania hunters keeping an eye on Maine bear proposal
"The chance of you just happening to cross paths with a bear while you're out pothunting in those mountains is pretty slim." Maine voters next ... «Lancaster Newspapers, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pothunting [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pothunting>. May 2024 ».
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