(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.
Latch
Definition:
(v. t.) To smear; to anoint.
(n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
(n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.
(n.) A latching.
(n.) A crossbow.
(n.) To catch so as to hold.
(n.) To catch or fasten by means of a latch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(2) For studies of motor performance in the baboon, regarding precise finger movements, a new latch-box was developed.
(3) Arrieta recalls: “With my first child I sterilised everything my baby came into contact with and then I realised the American Pediatric Association doesn’t recommend that, while other studies show it increases the risk of allergies and asthma.” Arrieta points out: “A child who breastfeeds constantly will be latched on to skin which, microbiologically speaking, is very dirty.
(4) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(5) The time course of light production, myosin light chain phosphorylation, shortening velocity at zero load, and active stress were measured in three stimulus protocols: depolarization with 109 mM potassium chloride at 22 degrees C, 37 degrees C, and 37 degrees C, followed by a reduction in potassium chloride to 20 mM to induce stress maintenance with basal phosphorylation (latch).
(6) Likud then voted in a new list in 2012 full of extremists who latched on to the xenophobia theme.
(7) LATCH has affected the medical library in several ways.
(8) In the bronchus, cross-sectional area of true muscle may constitute only 20-30% of the total tissue cross section, and load-independent cycling rate varies fourfold during the course of a contraction because of the occurrence of normally cycling and latch bridges.
(9) We have proposed a model that incorporates a dephosphorylated "latch bridge" to explain the mechanics and energetics of smooth muscle.
(10) Thus cross-bridge phosphorylation may suffice to determine force generation in vascular smooth muscle if both phosphorylated and dephosphorylated attached cross bridges (or latch bridges) contribute to active stress.
(11) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(12) Since latch-up induction occurs at wave-lengths longer than 580 nm, it may depend on the 540 pigment or on an undetected red absorbing pigment.
(13) Koke latches onto a loose ball down the left and fires a low cross through the area.
(14) The moment had come for Defoe – initially very big on economy of effort – to use all that cleverly conserved energy to remind everyone of his enduring ability and, latching on to Johnson’s pass, the 33-year-old duly obliged.
(15) Inside the brain, THC latches on to what are called cannabinoid receptors.
(16) Liverpool 2-0 Cardiff City (Sterling 41) Luis Suarez turns provider, latching on to long defence-splitting pass from the back to catch the Cardiff City back four flat-footed.
(17) 7: 255-318, 1957) to the latch-bridge model to predict the relationship between isotonic shortening velocity and phosphorylation.
(18) On the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday, Obama latched on to some of the remarks made by Romney, in particular a bizarre one about being offered "whole binders full of women" when searching for female recruits to his cabinet when he was governor of Massachusetts.
(19) Most problems, such as sore nipples, engorgement and pain with latch-on, subside after several weeks; symptomatic relief and emotional support from the family physician during this period are crucial.
(20) Because stretch should detach cross bridges, I modified the aequorin-based latch-bridge model to account for stretch-induced cross-bridge detachment.