(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.
Crick
Definition:
(n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
(n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
(n.) A small jackscrew.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that (AGG)12 can form intra- and inter-molecular complexes by non-Watson-Crick, guanine:guanine base-pairing.
(2) It is demonstrated that this peculiar DNA fragment, under suitable conditions of concentration, salt and temperature, exclusively prefers to adopt a monomeric hairpin form with a stem of three Watson-Crick type base pairs and a loop of two residues.
(3) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(4) The new Francis Crick Institute in London, now filling with 1,400 scientists, could be built and run for 10 years on that.
(5) The Watson-Crick H-bonded imino proton resonances were studied.
(6) The Watson-Crick alignment of the alkylG.T and alkylT.G mispairs may facilitate formation of these phosphodiester links, and this alignment rather than the strength of the base pairs and the extent of hydrogen bonding between them may be the crucial factor in the miscoding.
(7) The complex has one drug molecule intercalated between Watson--Crick base pairs of the nucleotide duplex.
(8) Recognition of the UACUAAC box thus relies, at least in part, on Watson-Crick base pairing with the yeast U2 analogue.
(9) A characteristic of Watson-Crick paired A X T and G X C bases is the pseudo 2-fold symmetry axis in the plane of the base pairs.
(10) The imino proton of T3 in the O6meG.T 12-mer and G3 in the O6meG.N 12-mer helix, which are associated with the modification site, resonate at unusually high field (8.5 to 9.0 ppm) compared to imino protons in Watson-Crick base pairs (12.5 to 14.5 ppm).
(11) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
(12) The base pairing between piA and poly(U) in this system is probably of the Hoogsteen type (involving the 6-amino group and N7 of 3-isoadenosine) rather than of the Watson-Crick type.
(13) One of these models is a four-strand structure in which two duplexes of the Watson-Crick kind are specifically related by a twofold rotation axis and which has already been discussed in some detail.
(14) Nurse, too, believes the Crick is built on solid foundations.
(15) Molecular modeling shows that a stereochemically satisfactory structure can be build using C2'-endo sugars and a displacement of the Watson-Crick base-pair center from the helix axis of 2.5 A. Helical constraints of rise per residue (h = 3.26 A) and residues per turn (n = 12) were taken from fiber diffraction experiments of Arnott and Selsing (1974).
(16) The temperature variation of the imino proton NMR signals suggests that the hydrogen bonding in self-recognition is comparable in strength with that in a beta-DNA duplex, and NOE data are in accord with Watson-Crick rather than Hoogsteen base pairing.
(17) We describe NMR studies at superconducting fields which characterize aspects of the structure and stability of the 1 : 2 actinomycin-d-pG-C complex in solution as monitored at the Watson-Crick base pairs and backbone phosphate groups.
(18) From fibre diffraction data, models for triplex structures with poly(U).poly(A).poly(U) and poly(dT).poly(dA).poly(dT) have been proposed, in which the purine and one pyrimidine strand are Watson-Crick paired in an A' helix, and the other pyrimidine strand is Hoogsteen base-paired parallel to the purine strand along the major groove.
(19) The peptide forms a parallel, two-stranded coiled coil of alpha helices packed as in the "knobs-into-holes" model proposed by Crick in 1953.
(20) 7.09pm: On his blog, Newsnight's Michael Crick quotes an unnamed Liberal Democrat MP who told him he was amazed how much the Tories were willing to compromise.