Word Finder - catch

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The act of seizing or capturing.

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The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.

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The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

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Nice catch!

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The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

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Good catch. I never would have remembered that.

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The game of catching a ball.

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The kids love to play catch.

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Something which is captured or caught.

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The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.

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(by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.

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Did you see his latest catch?

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A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

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She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.

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A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

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There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.

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(sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

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Be careful, that's a catch question.

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A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.

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I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.

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A fragment of music or poetry.

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A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.

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A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.

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A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.

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A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.

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The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.

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The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

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A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.

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The first contact of an oar with the water.

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A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.

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Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

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A slight remembrance; a trace.

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(heading) To capture, overtake.

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(heading) To seize hold of.

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(heading) To intercept.

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(heading) To receive (by being in the way).

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(heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.

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(heading) To seize attention, interest.

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(heading) To obtain or experience

He paused for a moment to catch his breath.

Some fancy intern catch your eye?

It may take a few minutes, but he'll catch on.

We chase butterflies, and sometimes catch one.

There had to be a catch with Darkyn's deal.

Do you think the Indians will catch up?

She stopped to catch her breath and placed her hand on his arm.

I had to catch my breath.

Prince Andrew did not catch what he said and would have passed on, but Chernyshev introduced him to Pfuel, remarking that Prince Andrew was just back from Turkey where the war had terminated so fortunately.

Martha was quick to catch on that something important had transpired.

Does it catch on?

Did they catch the person who did it?

It was a catch twenty-two.

I strolled up town, hoping to catch them.

She hurried to catch up.

The silence began to oppress the princess and she tried to catch someone's eye.

I'll catch up after I cook these rabbits and clean up the camp.

There is one catch.

Don't catch up against it!

His fist was aimed at her stomach, but she managed to dodge and catch it on her rib cage.

Take in the beautiful view of the harbor from the dining room, or select the catch of the day from their take-out fish market.

Bordeaux jumped back as her wagon moved to catch up with the others.

She trotted to catch up to them, trailing.

Cynthia was troubled with a headache and tried to catch an extra half-hour of sleep as Dean served breakfast to the early risers, Penny, Mick and two of the other climbers.

He reached out to catch it.

Juvenile gadoids constituted a significant proportion of the catch.

When the revolution came the members of the four orders had to flee for their lives, although the people who killed or imprisoned those they could catch were generally good Catholics.

Nearly one-half both in quantity and value are taken from Lake Michigan, and, although as many as twenty kinds are caught in considerable quantities, more than 90% of the value of the catch consists of trout, herring, white fish and perch.

Can Jeremy catch the ' giant devil catfish '?

As I was stationed but a short distance from the main hatchway, I could catch a glance at all who were carried below.

She waited another few seconds for a catch before letting herself believe him.

And we'll catch up with that Boyd dame.

It was fifty meters away, far enough he could catch her, if she wasn't careful.

We'll catch up later.

Approximately, the value of the annual catch may be reckoned at from £600,000 to £800,000.

On the face of the Western Ghats, and on the Khasi hills, overlooking the Bay of Bengal, where the mountains catch the masses of vapour as it rises off the sea, the rainfall is enormous.

When the clutch is moved towards the hoop, its arms catch those of the hoop, and cause the hoop to rotate and to communicate its rotation to the pulley by friction.

This treatment on the principle of "setting a thief to catch a thief" is frequently very useful.

As a teacher he commanded universal respect, and wherever we catch a glimpse of his activity he appears to advantage.

The fresh-water fish caught in the Great Lakes by residents in Michigan exceed in value those caught by residents of other states, and in 1907 the catch was valued at $1,806,767.

Until 1901 New Jersey's fisheries were more important than those of any other state in the Middle or South Atlantic groups; but after that date, owing to a decrease in the catch of bluefish, shad, clams and oysters, the annual catch of New York and Virginia became more valuable.

From 1901 to 1904 inclusive, the average annual catch amounted to 195,335,646 lb, and its average value was $5,557,083.

I got to catch a plane back up to Boston—tickets for the Symphony and stuff like that.

My mom couldn't drive so she used to catch a bus nearly every day to visit my dad.

An ilka troot will be the match O ilka ither ane I catch?

Every catch by Neenan was greeted with tumultuous applause, every desperate tackle by a Burnley player produced roars of approval.

If I were going to catch an arapaima on camera, it would have to be somewhere else.

We believe that a fund is needed to attract scientists and catch up with the enormous backlog of need.

Even though scientists continued to develop LED lighting technology, the bulbs failed to catch on with the general public.

Gabriel was working them – and himself - overtime to try to catch up.