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Chase
is the act of chasing or pursuing. It is derived from the French chasse
, with the additional meaning of hunting (game). This also gave rise to the use of chase for a substantial area in England reserved for hunting, the equivalent of a Royal forest, but belonging to a subject, usually a great nobleman.
It may also refer to:
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Places
In Canada
:
- Chase, British Columbia, small village located in the interior of British Columbia, Canada
- Chase Island, Nunavut
In Britain
- Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
- Needwood Chase, Staffordshire
In the United States
- Chase, Alaska
- Chase, Indiana, a virtually extinct town in Benton County, Indiana
- Chase, Kansas
- Chase, Maryland, a community in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland
- Chase, Wisconsin
- Chase City, Virginia
- Chase Township, Michigan
People
Surname
- Bill Chase, trumpet player
- Chevy Chase, American comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Carroll Chase (1878-1960) - renowned philatelist in U.S. and France
- Clifford Chase, American novelist
- David Chase, American television writer, director and producer
- Emory A. Chase (1854-1921), New York judge
- George C. Chase, President of Bates College 1894-1919, English scholar
- Ilka Chase, American actress
- James Hadley Chase, British writer
- J. Mitchell Chase, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Jonathan Chase (colonel), Revolutionary War officer
- Lucia Chase, dancer and co-founder of American Ballet Theatre
- Lucien Bonaparte Chase, U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
- Martha Chase, U.S. biologist, helped prove that genes are made of DNA
- Qiana Chase, American model
- Ray P. Chase, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
- Reuben Chase, officer in the U.S. Continental Navy
- Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Samuel Chase, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Thornton Chase, the first American Baha'i
- William C. Chase, American soldier
- William Merritt Chase, American painter
Chase Honicutt, proven wrong
Given names
Chase
is a given name in the English language, especially in the United States. It is a transferred use of the surname.
Factual
- Chase Utley (born 1978), baseball second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Chase Daniel (born 1986), football quarterback for the Washington Redskins
- Chase Coffman (born 1986), football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals
- Chase Headley (born 1984), baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres
- Chase Blackburn (born 1983), football linebacker for the New York Giants
Fictional
- Chase (Transformers)
- Chase, an IRO-bot in the comic book series The Amory Wars
- Chase, a character from Blade: The Series
- Chase, a character in the anime series Fighting Foodons
- Chase (The Sword of Truth), a character from the book series The Sword of Truth
- Ambrose Chase, a character from the comic book Planetary
- Angela Chase, a character from 'My So Called LIfe' played by Clare Danes
- Annabeth (Percy Jackson), a character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians
book series
- Annabeth Chase (Close to Home), a character from the television series Close to Home
- Brad Chase, a character from the television series "Boston Legal
- Agent Cameron Chase, a character from the comic book series Chase
- Chase Edmunds, a character from the television series 24
- Chase Hammond, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy
- Chase Matthews, from Zoey 101
- Dr. Chase Meridian, a character from the film Batman Forever
- Chase Stein, a senior member of Marvel comics's Runaways
- Chase Young, an antagonist in Xiaolin Showdown
- Cordelia Chase, a character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- James Chase, a character from the game Secret Weapons Over Normandy
- Johnny "Drama" Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
- Dr. Robert Chase, a character from the television series House, M.D.
- Vincent Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
- Chase Hammel, a character from the novel Acid House Blues
Corporations
- JPMorgan Chase, a financial services firm
- * Chase (bank), the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase
Culture
- Chase (band), a 1970s jazz-rock band headed by Bill Chase
- * Chase
(album), their debut album
- Chase (Faroese band), a 1980s and 90s rock band
- * Chase
(album), the Faroese band's Chase' first album
- Chase
(comics), a DC comic book
- Chase
(TV series) known as Cha$e
- Chase
(1973 TV series), a crime/adventure drama that aired on NBC from 1973 to 1974
- "Chase" (song), a 1977 dance hit by Giorgio Moroder from the soundtrack and album Midnight Express
- "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", the title of at least two English folk songs
- Chase (film), a Bollywood film
Transportation
- USS Chase
(DD-323), Clemson
-class destroyer in the United States Navy
- USS Chase
(DE-158), Buckley
-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
- USCGC Chase
(WHEC-718), Hamilton
-class high-endurance cutter of the United States Coast Guard
- Chase Aircraft
- Chase, a brand of bicycle made by Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
Other
- Chase (land), a geographical term (usually British) designating an area of privately-owned land for hunting, for example Cannock Chase
- Chase (algorithm), an algorithm in database construction, to test if a decomposition is lossless
- CHASE (cut holes and sink 'em), American military parlance for scuttling ships
- Chase Field, the home stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks
- Chase (lighting), an effect in which light sources are lit up sequentially
- CHASE hospice care for children, a charity that supports life limited children in the South East
See also
- Car chase
- The Chase
- Cut to the chase
- Chace
- Repoussé and chasing
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