(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.
Chock
Definition:
(v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
(v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.
(n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
(n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
(1) He channelled his new-found creative freedom into making club-focused hip-hop, chock-full of tongue-twisting put-downs that would give Minaj a run for her Benjamins.
(2) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(3) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(4) "I got in line around 11pm, and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people," said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store.
(5) The term chocking is both inaccurate and inappropriate in describing the cause of death in motor neurone disease and its use should be abandoned.
(6) The current shadow cabinet is full of people who are chock full of good ideas but unable to get them across.
(7) "It's not rocket science to know that that part of London would at least be chock-a-block with displaced traffic."
(8) The activation of the ATP,Mg-dependent protein phosphatase [Fc.M] has been shown to involve a transient phosphorylation of the modulator subunit (M) and consequent isomerization of the catalytic subunit (Fc) into its active conformation (Jurgensen, S., Shacter, E., Huang, C. Y., Chock, P. B., Yang, S. -D., Vandenheede, J. R., and Merlevede, W. (1984) J. Biol.
(9) Rapid incorporation of exogenous arachidonic acid into phospholipid has been detected in conjunction with eicosanoid synthesis by purified mast cell granules [Chock, S. P. & Schmauder-Chock, E. A.
(10) (Tokyo) 91, 1809-1812; Sellers, J. R., Chock, P. B., and Adelstein, R. S. (1983) J. Biol.
(11) So now we’re dealing with miles of roads around every supermarket being chock-a-block with sheepish, over-zealous consumers parking up to return the goods that were never needed, like someone making themselves sick on the morning of a hangover.
(12) But it is chock full of good people who are very diverse.
(13) 143-154, Elsevier Science publisher) and limited proteolysis of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with yeast proteinase B (Pohlig, G., Schäfer, W., v. Herrath, M. and Holzer, H. (1984) in "Current topics in cellular regulation" (S. Shaltiel and P. Boon Chock, eds.)
(14) If excellence is an ageing network of broken roads chock-full of luxury cars and overladen lorries constantly harassed by motorbikes and the unruly drivers of Danfo buses, then I suggest we aspire to something else.
(15) But in a division chock full of imperfect champions, the wisest tack may be to expect the unexpected.
(16) Over the next three years, 2.4 acres of this site will be transformed into a million square feet of an 11-storey headquarters for the internet giant Google , no doubt chock-a-block with colourful Big Brother -house-style sofas and surreal chill-out zones that mark out its other 70 offices in 40 countries.
(17) Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons.
(18) Moreover, plasma endothelin concentration is elevated during acute myocardial infarction, in acute renal failure, in patients with hypertension, and during cardiogenic chock.
(19) Thylakoids altered by osmotic chock are sensitized to agglutination.
(20) Inside the partly open-air space, chock full of football scarves and decades of photos, some of the city's friendliest waiters navigate the fun with grace and efficiency.