(n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(2) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(3) Jacoby Ellsbury goes to steal second, and the catcher Molina's throw isn't even close allowing Ellsbury to make it to third base with nobody out.
(4) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(5) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
(6) The late author of The Catcher in the Rye, notoriously protective of his privacy, published nothing after the release of his story Hapworth 16, 1924 in the New Yorker, in 1965.
(7) "I'm aware that a number of my friends will be saddened, or shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters of The Catcher in the Rye.
(8) If the catcher blocks the runner before he has the ball, the umpire may call the runner safe.
(9) They were the slave catchers Lynn Hampton “The police has had a profound effect on the African American community like no other.
(10) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(11) It didn't even matter that former starting catcher Mike Matheny had replaced the Genius of Tony La Russa as manager, the Cardinals organization is apparently designed for continued success no matter who is in charge.
(12) The publication of The Catcher in the Rye moved Salinger's career into a new phase, though the writer was not there to witness the sensation that accompanied it, preferring to spend the summer of 1951 in Britain so as to avoid the inconvenience of interviews, public appearances and reviews.
(13) These results indicate that chicken catchers are at risk for respiratory dysfunction and emphasize the need to develop measures to minimize their exposure to respiratory toxicants in poultry confinement units.
(14) Greinke strikes him out, that's K number two, and now here comes the "marvelously talented catcher" (Scully) Yadier Molina, or as he is sometimes known - God.
(15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
(16) O'Connell's In the Rye, in which "Holden Caulfield steps out of the pages of The Catcher in the Rye and into the life of a high school senior searching Manhattan for her missing American lit teacher who has always regarded Salinger's classic novel as a book of revelations and a roadmap of sorts", was acquired by Penguin's US imprint Amy Einhorn Books, reported book rights news website Publishers Marketplace and the New York Times .
(17) The Salinger books would revisit Catcher protagonist Holden Caulfield and draw on Salinger's World War II years and his immersion in eastern religion.
(18) After The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's rate of production slowed considerably.
(19) It’s quite clear that umpires have no idea to judge the new rule that banned runners from barreling into catchers at the plate, one that came into effect this offseason.
(20) There were many young, disillusioned heroes being studied in the early 60s, Meursault in Camus's The Outsider , McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye .
Watcher
Definition:
(n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) McCormack Evans says porn-watchers can quickly descend into self-hatred.
(2) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
(3) - @lyallgrant #Syria September 27, 2013 But veteran UN watcher Colum Lynch explains what the draft really means on Foreign Policy's The Cable blog .
(4) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
(5) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
(6) Bibi-watchers are focused now on how the Israeli leader will play the next six months, in which the Geneva agreement will either blossom into a lasting accord or break apart.
(7) Eric Heginbotham, a senior fellow at the US Council on Foreign Relations, is one of many Kim-watchers who say it's consistent with what is known about the regime.
(8) What gets a person to their first Weight Watchers meeting?
(9) It’s disingenuous of Rupert Murdoch to say otherwise.” Murdoch watchers see the dual-track emoting of his Twitter feed and the editorial pages of his newspapers as symbiotic.
(10) The available data of members of Weight Watchers groups were statistically evaluated and their efficiency is discussed with respect to the underlying therapeutic concept.
(11) Little more than 50 years on, however, it is the setting for a chaotic and demeaning political battle that has even long-term parliament watchers shaking their heads in disbelief.
(12) One practical suggestion that might ease the problem would be to extend the responsibilities of “listeners” in our jails so that they also become “watchers”.
(13) In a central London basement, Shelina Permalloo, a former winner of Masterchef, cooks salmon for the 10 best Weight Watchers in the country.
(14) He told the German newspaper Bild that Greece was unlikely to need all of the €86bn fund because the Greek budget was developing better than expected – a view that contrasts with some market watchers who think the country is heading for its fourth bailout.
(15) The Federal Reserve has become the watcher and weigher of market-moving events.
(16) Weight losses of 5kg may be less than many people might hope for, but we know from many other research studies that this brings surprisingly large health benefits; more than halving the risk of developing diabetes in people with raised blood sugar,” said Jebb, who has conducted research funded by Weight Watchers in the past.
(17) Watchers of television news clips in the run-up to Britain’s referendum on EU membership are likely to become familiar with her sweater made up of the flags of the nine Common Market countries, accompanying her call then for “a big Yes vote for Europe”.
(18) They wanted ISPs to deny their users access to such sites in a move that some internet watchers warned could lead to the blocking of video-sharing sites such as YouTube .
(19) Meerkat is likely to be the talk of South by Southwest, as Twitter was in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009, as investors and technology watchers seek out Rubin and watch the company’s curated Meerkat live-stream events.
(20) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.