What's the difference between catchphrase and catchword?

Catchphrase


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.
  • (2) It's a combination of very fast comeback, catchphrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance".
  • (3) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
  • (4) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
  • (5) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
  • (6) Rennie's "sunshine strategy" is now a conference catchphrase, apparently to counter the repeated typecasting of the pro-UK campaign as "Project Fear" by independence campaigners after a leaked internal memo from Better Together used the phrase last year.
  • (7) It is a line from "The Ladies Who Lunch", from Company , which "became a sort of catchphrase among show queens".
  • (8) 8.21pm GMT Sue: I can’t help but feel that this should have been Christopher Eccleston is this scene… 8.20pm GMT “Reversing the polarity” is the Doctor’s most famous and least-used catchphrase.
  • (9) The OED lists this as the first recorded instance of the American dream, although it's not yet the catchphrase as we know it.
  • (10) It was also a catchphrase that came to define Positive Black Soul, the hip-hop group that Awadi started with Amadou "Doug E Tee" Barry in the late 1980s.
  • (11) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
  • (12) It's the first battle cry in the pair's hair-raising physical and mental skirmish and has become something approaching a catchphrase.
  • (13) Moments later I'm given a seat in the audience for Fallon's show, where his guests, including Witherspoon, Usher (inexplicably wearing a Davy Crockett-style hat) and the 18-year-old Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin are taking part in a game of Catchphrase.
  • (14) So too were ideological debates that had supposedly long been settled; that catchphrase of our age, “there is no alternative”, was confronted by myriad tiny, irrepressible political grenades that detonated deep inside countless imaginations.
  • (15) As it turned out, Stavros – a Greek kebab shop-owner, with the catchphrase "Hello everybody peeps!"
  • (16) It is the location for what local community station Zack FM 105.3, with its deliriously cavalier catchphrase "WE PLAY EVERYTHING", has billed as a Malibu beach party.
  • (17) Engineered serendipity Google is a great company for a catchphrase.
  • (18) Bezos, a Star Trek fan, also considers calling the company MakeItSo.com, after Captain Picard's catchphrase in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and holds a party for the show's final episode in May 1994.
  • (19) The hopefuls clutch expensive portraits they got for Christmas or birthdays, internalising talent show catchphrases about this being a "once in a lifetime opportunity".
  • (20) The situation is much more subtle, just as it is much more subtle than the unhelpful catchphrase of the 'right to be forgotten'.

Catchword


Definition:

  • (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
  • (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
  • (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This function gains particular significance considering the psychological concept of adolescence as being a particularly vulnerable phase in man's biographic course and the problematic position of modern industrial society discussed from the sociological side under the catchword "Colonialization of the life world (Lebenswelt)" (Habermas 1981).
  • (2) Putin said London and Moscow had common interests in bringing an end to the bloodshed, while maintaining Syria's territorial integrity – a catchword commonly used by Moscow to imply opposition to outside intervention.
  • (3) The catchword for multiskilled has become not "whether," but "how.