(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.
Fielder
Definition:
(n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prince Fielder is up next and he grounds out to first.
(2) Roger Kirkby: All stores in LA were giving 50% off Puig Shirts today, to match his fielding percentage last night Does this mean all Prince Fielder shirts are free to match his lack of RBI?
(3) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
(4) 2.38am GMT 7th Inning Stretch Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.38am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 7th Gregor Blanco bounces to first but the throw is off line and Fielder has to dive to his right to get it while Blanco slides head first, OUT!
(5) On 2-2, Fielders swings and misses on a high fastball to strike out.
(6) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.41pm BST 60th over: England 133-6 (Ali 39, Prior 1) Prior gets underway via inside edge off to the leg side, bringing Ali back, a square of fielders around him.
(7) Last night, Henri Brandman, who is representing Fielder-Civil, said in a statement: "I can confirm that I have been instructed to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy's adultery."
(8) Great going by Pedey & Salty #RedSox there ;-P @HunterFelt @BBC5LSX October 20, 2013 3.35am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 6th Prince Fielder is still the MVP for the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS.
(9) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(10) On Tuesday, the indigenous activist Jackie Fielder helped lead a protest at the San Francisco board of supervisors, which she is hoping to persuade to divest from DAPL-connected banks.
(11) Then Smith ruins my conceit by grounding to Prince Fielder.
(12) Michael Young pinch hits for the pitcher and grounds out to third, before Carl Crawford launches a ball to center field - Jay dives to his right and can't come up with it, and so it's a one-out base hit for the Dodgers left fielder.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tents set ablaze at North Dakota pipeline protest campsite “The thing about the No DAPL movement is that it’s everywhere,” Fielder said.
(14) Fielder just looks far from his best October 20, 2013 It would be interesting to see how these League Championship Series would have gone had Hanley Ramirez been fully healthy for the Dodgers and Miguel Cabrera wasn't playing through a gazillion trillion injuries.
(15) Now Cabrera is on for Prince Fielder as Tim Lincecum heads out to the bullpen to warm up.
(16) From these findings, we diagnosed this case as acute isolated (Fielder's) myocarditis.
(17) However, the speedy Crisp gets to it for the out, Fielder has to return to first.
(18) We comment on the need for appropriate facial protection for batsmen and close fielders.
(19) 2.59am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Prince Fielder is up next.
(20) 2.48am BST Richie (@richiemetsoh) @LengelDavid 'those are two big men on the screen, Fielder and Ortiz.