What's the difference between apprehension and catch?

Apprehension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
  • (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
  • (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
  • (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
  • (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (2) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (3) Family unit apprehensions are indeed at a historical high and UAC apprehensions are surging back to levels seen in 2014 .
  • (4) He was slightly apprehensive, and more than a little starstruck when he subsequently met the real Tippi Hedren.
  • (5) The surgical technique uses a local anesthetic containing a vasoconstrictor or an ultralight intravenous general anesthetic in addition to the local anesthetic for the apprehensive or acutely infected patient.
  • (6) Change in anesthesiologists may have been a factor in increasing apprehension and anesthetic dosage in later treatments.
  • (7) Apprehension mounted but Liverpool's title pursuit could not be derailed.
  • (8) The most frequent reason for closing the unit was the apprehension the patient would leave the hospital.
  • (9) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (10) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
  • (11) To improve early diagnosis of gastric carcinoma (GC), it is recommended that every endoscopic investigation be performed with oncological apprehension, paying attention even to the minimum focal changes in the gastric mucosa and making spot biopsy of those changes.
  • (12) We felt by the end of the process we were prepared, if a bit apprehensive.
  • (13) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
  • (14) They have drastically reduced the number of interior deportations – those involving apprehensions that occur away from the border and usually involve individuals who have lived in the US for years – by activating a “ Priority Enforcement Program ”.
  • (15) At a media day held to mark the completion of the training and arranged before the tragedy, soldier after soldier came forward to insist that, though they were apprehensive, they were determined to do a good job, partly to make sure that their six colleagues had not died in vain.
  • (16) Because of an apprehension of an unnecessary death occurring during their treatment, healers frequently refer cases, from traditional to modern medicine and from general practitioner to hospital.
  • (17) The speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case.
  • (18) He decided to resign, but was strangely apprehensive, fearing that he would never get another job.
  • (19) If McCroskey's distinction between trait and situation-based state is appropriate, personality variables ordinarily associated with trait apprehension about communication should not correlate as highly with forms defined as more situation specific, such as anxiety about public speaking.
  • (20) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.

Catch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
  • (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
  • (v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
  • (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
  • (v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
  • (v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
  • (v. t.) To get possession of; to attain.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
  • (v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
  • (v. i.) To attain possession.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
  • (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
  • (n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.
  • (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
  • (n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
  • (n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  • (n.) A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (2) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (3) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
  • (4) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (5) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
  • (6) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
  • (7) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
  • (8) "The idea was to catch the wave and say, 'You've got a failing school, but look - we're going to give you £23m and a lovely new school,'" said Tracy.
  • (9) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
  • (10) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (11) Instead this is contaminating the police and policing.” “In addition, it’s costing an absolute fortune where we have £50m being spent one case alone, ie Stakeknife,” he said, referring to the investigation into Freddie Scappaticci, who infiltrated the IRA and became head of its spy-catching unit.
  • (12) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
  • (13) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
  • (14) He decided to catch the 5pm Eurostar back to Brussels.
  • (15) As well as telling the BBC to put password controls on the iPlayer, he will ask it to investigate a new offering in which people would pay for shows outside its traditional catch-up window, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph .
  • (16) Race to test a Cold War killer Porton Down was established as a research centre on the edge of Salisbury Plain in 1916, to help Britain catch up with German chemical weapons technology.
  • (17) "After five years, we are in a worse place than when we started," wrote Jamil Baz, chief investment strategist at hedge fund GLG, in an eye-catching analysis last month.
  • (18) The data support the hypothesis that catch-up growth is regulated by a central control with a mechanism (set point) for setting target size of the body.
  • (19) At each age level the boys consistently performed better than the girls in four of the six motor tests (catching, standing long jump, tennis ball throw and speed run).
  • (20) We’ve just got to be there, ready to catch, if anything falls apart.” • Some names have been changed.