Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CATCH

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Definitions of CATCH

1. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
2. A slight remembrance; a trace.
3. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
4. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
5. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
6. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
7. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
8. (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
9. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
10. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
11. (countable, sometimesnoun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
12. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
13. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
14. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
15. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
16. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
17. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
18. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
19. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
20. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
21. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
22. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
23. (heading) To capture, overtake.
24. (heading) To seize hold of.
25. (heading) To intercept.
26. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
27. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
28. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
29. To notice.

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Examples of Using CATCH in a Sentence

• is dropped, and a runner scores, if in the scorer's judgment the runner could have scored after the catch had the fly ball been caught.
• In gridiron football, not all players on offense are entitled to receive a forward pass: only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses into the neutral zone.
• After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have recently recovered, with unemployment down to 5% in mid-1998, and holding below 3% since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.
• Although phylogenetically closer to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws.
• They ride on the pursuit line at the bottom of the track to find the fastest line, with each rider trying to catch the other who started on the other side.
• As with the individual pursuit, the objective is to cover the distance in the fastest time or to catch and overtake the other team in a final.
• Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs.
• However, rail suburbs did not catch on, and the community stagnated as automobiles replaced commuter trains and streetcars.
• One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All Star, then and still today produced by Sandro Orru, who had written the soundtrack to the animated Signor Rossi TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.
• A SAX parser only needs to report each parsing event as it happens, and normally discards almost all of that information once reported (it does, however, keep some things, for example a list of all elements that have not been closed yet, in order to catch later errors such as end-tags in the wrong order).
• The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks.
• The term "Texas Leaguer" to describe a bloop hit, a soft fly ball that falls for a hit beyond the infielders' reach but too short for the outfielders to catch, has been extant since at least 1903 and was common throughout American baseball in the 20th century and to some degree into the 21st.
• Spiders use silk to make webs or other structures that function as adhesive traps to catch prey, to entangle and restrain prey before biting, to transmit tactile information, or as nests or cocoons to protect their offspring.
• In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime.
• Developers of the famous System R underway in the US at the same time were also consulted on certain matters concerning the engine, but the BS12 team rejected SQL unequivocally, being convinced that this apparently unsound and difficult-to-use language (which at that time was also relationally incomplete) would never catch on.
• He was dumbfounded at discovering that his fortune was diminishing while the locks and seals remained intact; to catch the thief, he laid a snare.
• Tolkien suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of", earlier "to catch, entrap (as a hunter)".
• Sól is unable to stop driving the chariot or else Sköll will catch the Sun and devour it; the Sun is expected to be caught and devoured on the day of Ragnarök.
• It is foretold the wolves will chase the Sun and Moon across the skies until Ragnarök, at which point the wolves catch up and devour the celestial beings.
• Another followed the Barton River south to the falls at the outlet of Crystal Lake where they were able to catch fish.

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