CATCHES
Noun
catches
plural of catch
Verb
catches
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catch
Anagrams
• cachets
Source: Wiktionary
CATCH
Catch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caught or Catched (; p. pr. & vb. n.
Catching. Catched is rarely used.] Etym: [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier,
dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL.
captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See
Capacious, and cf. Chase, Case a box.]
1. To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp
(anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a
ball.
2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. "They
pursued . . . and caught him." Judg. i. 6.
3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch
a bird or fish.
4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark
xii. 13.
5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a
melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." Tennyson.
6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the
adjoining building.
7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden.
8. To get possession of; to attain.
Torment myself to catch the English throne. Shak.
9. To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion,
infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to
catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch
one in the act of stealing.
11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. To catch
fire, to become inflamed or ignited.
– to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment.
[Colloq.] -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while
speaking. [Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." Dickens.
– To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.
Catch, v. i.
1. To attain possession. [Obs.]
Have is have, however men do catch. Shak.
2. To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as,
a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
3. To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
4. To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
Does the sedition catch from man to man Addison.
To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be egger to get or use. "[To]
catch at all opportunities of subverting the state." Addison.
– To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.
Catch, n.
1. Act of seizing; a grasp. Sir P. Sidney.
2. That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the
catch of a gate.
3. The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or
of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
[Archaic] Addison.
The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch, and wait advantages
one againt another. T. Fuller.
4. That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole
quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your
brains. Shak.
5. Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in
matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.
6. pl.
Definition: Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
It has been writ by catches with many intervals. Locke.
7. A slight remembrance; a trace.
We retain a catch of those pretty stories. Glanvill.
8. (Mus.)
Definition: A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch
up each other's words.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition