English Dictionary

catch

/kæt͡ʃ/

noun

(countable) The act of seizing or capturing. / (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball. / (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

He made a great catch in the baseball game.

意味（1）

(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

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

意味（2）

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

The player made an impressive catch.

意味（3）

(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

Good catch. I never would have remembered that.

意味（4）

(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.

The kids love to play catch.

意味（5）

(countable) Something which is captured or caught.

The fishermen took pictures of their catch.

意味（6）

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

Did you see his latest catch?

意味（7）

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

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

意味（8）

(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

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

意味（9）

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

It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?

意味（10）

(countable) 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.

意味（11）

(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.

In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.

意味（12）

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

You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.

意味（13）

(countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.

There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.

意味（14）

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

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.

意味（15）

(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.

Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?

意味（16）

(countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.

The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.

意味（17）

(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.

意味（18）

(countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.

[…] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.

意味（19）

(countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.

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.

意味（20）

(countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.

The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.

意味（21）

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

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, Introduction the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption

意味（22）

A slight remembrance; a trace.

We retain a catch of those pretty stories.