catch
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CATCHCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)#CATCHFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CATCHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CATCH cacchen, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#CATCH cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#CATCH captiāre, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CATCH captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chaseCategory:English doublets#CATCH. Compare ketchCategory:English doublets#CATCH. Via PIE cognate with have. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan.
The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan), whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte), until becoming regularised in Modern English.
Pronunciation
- (MLE) IPA(key): /kat͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CATCH
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: kăch, IPA(key): /kat͡ʃ/, (obsolete) /kɛt͡ʃ/[1]Category:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CATCH
- (General Australian) enPR: kăch, IPA(key): /kæt͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CATCH
- (US, Canada) enPR: kăch, kĕch, IPA(key): /kæt͡ʃ/, /kɛt͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CATCH
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CATCHAudio (US); /kæt͡ʃ/: (file) - Noah Webster's American Dictionary (1828) regards /kɛt͡ʃ/ as the "popular or common pronunciation."[2] It is labeled "not infreq[uent]" in Kenyon & Knott (1949).[3]
- (Southern US, obsolete) enPR: kŏch, IPA(key): /kɑt͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#CATCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CATCH (see cotch)[4]
- Homophone: ketchCategory:English terms with homophones#CATCH (pronunciations as /kɛt͡ʃ/)
- Rhymes: -ætʃ, -ɛtʃCategory:Rhymes:English/ætʃ#CATCHCategory:Rhymes:English/ætʃ/1 syllable#CATCHCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛtʃ#CATCHCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛtʃ/1 syllable#CATCH
Noun
catch (countable and uncountable, plural catches)Category:English lemmas#CATCHCategory:English nouns#CATCHCategory:English uncountable nouns#CATCHCategory:English countable nouns#CATCHCategory:English countable nouns#CATCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CATCHCategory:Pages with entries#CATCHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) The act of seizing or capturing.
- The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The player made an impressive catch.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Good catch. I never would have remembered that.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 2008, John I. Carney, Soapstone, page 74:
- "In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
"Nice catch," said Lucy.
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#CATCH) The game of catching a ball.
- The kids love to play catch.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) Something which is captured or caught.
- The fishermen took pictures of their catch.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#CATCH, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- Did you see his latest catch?Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- He's a good catch.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1922 August 1, “London Concerts”, in The Musical Times:
- Mr. Alfred O'Shea, a tenorizing youth from Australia, sang several times at Queen's Hall, and may congratulate himself on being one of the ‘catches’ of the season. He sang airs from Italian and French operas, and also a number of Irish ditties—naturally, with a name like that and such an ingratiating McCormackian voice.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 2014 July 10, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 561 - A Catch:
- "Aaaugh! Just once, I wish I could be considered a catch by men younger than fifty..."Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- Synonym: hitch
- It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- Be careful, that's a catch question.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH) A fragment of music or poetry.
- 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 1872, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 90:
- "'Fair Enslaver!'" cried Mr. Enderby. "You must know 'Fair Enslaver:' there is not a sweeter catch than that. Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—"Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard 'Fair Enslaver.'
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CATCH) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I Section 3:
- You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- The common and the canon law […] lie at catch, and wait advantages one against another.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, agricultureCategory:en:Agriculture#CATCH) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- 1905, Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon, page 204:
- There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CATCH) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 158:
- Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, musicCategory:en:Music#CATCH) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- 1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, page 76:
- One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, musicCategory:en:Music#CATCH) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- 2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope!, page 268:
- The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, cricketCategory:en:Cricket#CATCH, baseballCategory:en:Baseball#CATCH) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- 1997 May 10, Henry Blofeld, “Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset”, in The Independent:
- It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, cricketCategory:en:Cricket#CATCH) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- 1894 September 16, “To Meet Lord Hawke's Team”, in The New York Times, page 21:
- […] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, rowingCategory:en:Rowing#CATCH) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- 1935 June 7, Robert F. Kelley, “California Crews Impress at Debut”, in The New York Times, page 29:
- They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch and getting on a terrific amount of power at the catch with each stroke.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#CATCH, phoneticsCategory:en:Phonetics#CATCH) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- 1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC:
- When a Scot pronounces water, better, or bottle—wa’er, be’er, or bo’le—the sound is precisely that of the catch; […] .Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook, →ISBN:
- The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Introduction”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
- the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruptionCategory:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- We retain a catch of those pretty stories.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
Synonyms
- (act of capturing): seizure, capture, collar, snatch
- (the act of catching a ball): grasp, snatch
- (act of noticing): observation
- (a find): prize, find; conquest, beau
- (quantity captured): haul, take
- (stopping mechanism): stop, chock; clasp, hasp, latch
- (hidden difficulty): snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch
- (fragment of music): snatch, fragment; snippet, bit
- (refrain): chorus, refrain, burden
Derived terms
- ass catch
- body catch
- bullet catch
- bycatch
- by-catch
- Catch-22
- catchbasin
- catch bet
- catch-breath
- catchbreath
- catch crop
- catch-dog
- catch fence
- catchful
- catchline
- catchmark
- catch-meadow
- catch of the day
- catch plate
- catchpoints
- catch-rope
- catch step
- catch the ten
- catch title
- catchwork
- catchy
- crowd catch
- fair catch
- glottal catch
- miscatch
- safety catch
- shoestring catch
- time catch
Translations
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Verb
catch (third-person singular simple present catches, present participle catching, simple past and past participle caught)Category:English lemmas#CATCHCategory:English verbs#CATCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CATCHCategory:Pages with entries#CATCHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CATCH
- (heading) To capture, overtake.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]
- I hope I catch a fish.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- He ran but we caught him at the exit.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. [from 14thc.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 12:13:
- And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, figuratively, datedCategory:English dated terms#CATCH) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
- 1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, page 108:
- The public […] said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 1990 February 4, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Bumps And All”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 12:
- "She caught this blanquito guy from El Condado," and you immediately know "My god, all that money."Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 2006, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer, Medea, page 23:
- As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens. […] from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod […].Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. [from 16thc.]
- If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
- The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. [from 17thc.]
- If you leave now you might catch him.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?
- 2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian:
- For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). [from 17thc.]
- He was caught on video robbing the bank.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 5:
- Once he caught me gazing lingeringly and eagerly at him. He turned round with that mocking air he assumed when he wanted to hide his feelings.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To travel by means of. [from 19thc.]
- catch the busCategory:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
- The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 1987, A.J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father, page 111:
- After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#CATCH) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.) [from 19thc.]
- 2002, Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek, pages 102–103:
- Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]
- (heading) To seize hold of.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, datedCategory:English dated terms#CATCH) To grab, seize, take hold of. [from 13thc.]
- I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight […]Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. [from 14thc.]
- I have to stop for a moment and catch my breathCategory:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- I caught some Z's on the train.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To grip or entangle. [from 17thc.]
- My leg was caught in a tree-root.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To be held back or impeded.
- Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- His voice caught when he came to his father's name.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- Push it in until it catches.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- The engine finally caught and roared to life.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To have something be held back or impeded.
- I caught my heel on the threshold.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). [from 17thc.]
- He caught at the railing as he fell.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to. [from 18thc.]
- The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, rowingCategory:en:Rowing#CATCH) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. [from 19thc.]
- 1906, Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep, page 63:
- Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH, agricultureCategory:en:Agriculture#CATCH) To germinate and set down roots. [from 19thc.]
- The seeds caught and grew.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, surfingCategory:en:Surfing#CATCH) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- 2001, John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue, page 203:
- If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, computingCategory:en:Computing#CATCH) To handle an exception. [from 20thc.]
- When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, datedCategory:English dated terms#CATCH) To grab, seize, take hold of. [from 13thc.]
- (heading) To intercept.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16thc.]
- I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, now rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#CATCH) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. [from 16thc.]
- 1811, [Jane Austen], “18”, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, […].Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, cricketCategory:en:Cricket#CATCH) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. [from 18thc.]
- Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH, baseballCategory:en:Baseball#CATCH) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher. [from 19thc.]
- He caught the last three innings.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16thc.]
- (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). [from 13thc.]
- You're going to catch a beating if they find out.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. [from 13thc.]
- The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- Her hair was caught by the light breeze.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, informalCategory:English informal terms#CATCH) To become infected by (an illness). [from 16thc.]
- Synonyms: contractCategory:English links with manual fragments#CATCH, acquireCategory:English links with manual fragments#CATCH
- Near-synonym: come down withCategory:English links with manual fragments#CATCH
- Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To spread by infection or similar means.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 31:
- Does the sedition catch from man to man?Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 1817, Mary Martha Sherwood, Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism:
- He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). [from 18thc.]
- The bucket catches water from the downspout.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 2003, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes, page 63:
- the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- 2008 June 9, Alastair Macaulay, “In Student Steps and Leaps, a Survey of National Styles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 January 2025:
- And the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s account of the Grand Pas Classique from “Paquita” […] exemplified the spectacular czarist ideal of ballet that has long since became widely accepted as “classical ballet.” […] It catches an American athleticism and energetic team spirit that still seem to smash European notions of ballet classicism, as does its dancers’ selfless manner and their practicelike costumes.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence. [from 16thc.]
- She finally caught the mood of the occasion.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To be hit by something.
- He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- 1877, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 135:
- The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CATCH) To get pregnant.
- Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). [from 13thc.]
- (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
- Synonyms: grasp, get
- Did you catch his name?Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- Did you catch the way she looked at him?Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH, informalCategory:English informal terms#CATCH) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). [from 20thc.]
- I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- 2022 January 31, 0:00 from the start, in Tom Holland & Mark Wahlberg Wishes Gong Xi Fa Cai!, GSCinemas, archived from the original on 12 February 2022:
- Tom Holland: Gong Xi Fa Cai! It's Tom Holland here. // Mark Wahlberg: And I'm Mark Wahlberg. Catch us in Uncharted this Chinese New Year at GSC. // Tom Holland: Gong Xi Fa Cai!Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully. [from 17thc.]
- You've really caught his determination in this sketch.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
- (heading) To seize attention, interest.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To charm or entrance. [from 14thc.]
- 2004, Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow, page 40:
- No, a far more natural beauty caught him.Category:English terms with quotations#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense). [from 17thc.]
- He managed to catch her attention.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- The enormous scarf did catch my eye.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CATCH) To charm or entrance. [from 14thc.]
- To notice.
- -You made a typo. -Ah, thanks for catching that.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATCH
Usage notes
- The older past and passive participle catched is now nonstandard.
Conjugation
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| 1st-person singular | catch | caught, catched1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd-person singular | catch, catchest† | caught, catched1, caughtest†, catchedst† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-person singular | catches, catcheth† | caught, catched1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| subjunctive | catch | caught, catched1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| imperative | catch | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| participles | catching | caught, catched1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- becatch
- catchability
- catchable
- catch a body
- catch a break
- catch a buzz
- catch a case
- catch a cold
- catch a crab
- catch a date
- catch a dick
- catch a fade
- catch a falling knife
- catch air
- catch-all
- catch-allism
- catch-all party
- catch and kill
- catch and kiss
- catch and release
- catch a packet
- catch a ride
- catch-as-catch-can
- catch as catch can
- catch a square
- catch a stray
- catch a tan
- catch a Tartar
- catch a wave
- catchball
- catch big air
- catch breath
- catch cold
- catch colt
- catchcry
- catchdrain
- catch dust
- catchee
- catch-'em-alive-O
- catcher
- catchfart
- catch feelings
- catch fire
- catch flies
- catchfly
- catch hands
- catch heat
- catch hell
- catch hold
- catch in 4k
- catch in 4K
- catch in possession
- catch in the act
- catch it
- catch it in the neck
- catch lacking
- catchlight
- catch me
- catchment
- catch napping
- catch no ball
- catch no balls
- catch on
- catch one's breath
- catch one's death
- catch one's drift
- catch oneself on
- catch one's eyes
- catch on fire
- catch out
- catch over
- catchpenny
- catchphrase
- catchpit, catch pit
- catch points
- catchpole
- catch print
- catch redhanded
- catch red-handed
- catch sight of
- catch someone at their own game
- catch someone napping
- catch someone's drift
- catch someone's eye
- catch someone's fancy
- catch someone with their pants down
- catch some rays
- catch some z's
- catch step
- catchstitch
- catch the bus
- catch the eye
- catch the light
- catch the queer
- catch the sun
- catch the wave
- catch up
- catch-up effect
- catchwater
- catchweed
- catch wind of
- catchword
- catch wreck
- catch you later
- catch you on the flip side
- catch Z's
- caught behind
- caught between two stools
- caught in the cookie jar
- caught looking
- caught on the hop
- caught raiding the cookie jar
- caught short
- caught stealing
- caught with one's fingers in the cookie jar
- caught with one's pants down
- caught with the cookie jar
- cony-catch
- couldn't catch a cold
- dog that caught the car
- dog who caught the tire
- don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
- first catch your hare
- flycatch
- forecatch
- hard to catch
- howcatchem
- make someone hard to catch
- miscatch
- not be caught dead
- outcatch
- overcatch
- recatch
- set a thief to catch a thief
- the proverbial dog that caught the car
- throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
- uncatch
- wouldn't be caught dead
- you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
- you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
- you can't catch old birds with chaff
- you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
- you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Descendants
Translations
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
References
- ↑ Ross, Alan S. C. (1954), “Linguistic Class Indicators in Present-Day English”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 55, number 1, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37.
- ↑ Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. byu.edu.
- ↑ Kenyon & Knott, A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. archive.org
- ↑ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 5, page 25.
French
Etymology
Derived from EnglishCategory:French terms derived from English#CATCH catch-as-catch-can (a style of wrestling now known as catch wrestling). Doublet of chasser (“to hunt”)Category:French doublets#CATCH.
Pronunciation
Noun
catch m (uncountable)Category:French lemmas#CATCHCategory:French nouns#CATCHCategory:French uncountable nouns#CATCHCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CATCHCategory:French masculine nouns#CATCHCategory:Pages with entries#CATCHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CATCH
Derived terms
Further reading
- “catch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
