What's the difference between caught and uppish?

Caught


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Catch
  • () imp. & p. p. of Catch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
  • (2) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (3) In families with several cases, secondary cases (children infected in the home) had a relative mortality risk of 3.00 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.55-5.80) compared with index cases who caught infection from someone outside the home.
  • (4) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (5) They caught all three of them and then proceeded to let the two white lads go."
  • (6) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (7) We caught snatches of a conversation with Amy Childs, star of docusoap The Only Way is Essex.
  • (8) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (9) By the end of the 2nd year the average rate of growth in height had practically caught up with the American standard.
  • (10) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (11) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
  • (12) Endangered species should not be used in biomedical research and a continuing supply of wild-caught vulnerable species is also out of the question.
  • (13) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (14) Rats were caught, and they and their fleas were identified.
  • (15) Forty-seven badgers were caught from the eight social groups.
  • (16) People need to be seen by a doctor if cancer is to be caught early”, said Dr Rosie Loftus, joint chief medical officer at Macmillan Cancer Support.
  • (17) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
  • (18) Morrissey has cancelled his entire US tour, citing a respiratory infection and 'acute fever ' he claims he caught from his support act, Kristeen Young.
  • (19) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (20) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.

Uppish


Definition:

  • (a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 12.32pm BST 12.29pm BST 20th over: Sri Lanka 52-1 (Karunaratne 24, Sangakkara 6) Sangakkara drives Jordan uppishly through the covers for his first boundary.
  • (2) Eoin Morgan flattered to deceive yet again, launching Priyanjan for the only six of the innings over wide long on only to flick Mathews uppishly and thoughtlessly to long leg.
  • (3) But what he calls "uppish department stores" are at risk as those economies start to bite and consumers postpone purchases.
  • (4) I went to Mummy, we both know Dave is equality's biggest fan, if Daniel Day-Lewis had not already ended slavery it totally would have been him, but Hilto is right, there are limits, as in someone like Picklesy just senses when he needs to back off and do his dog fighting, whatevs, total salt of the earth, and even the most uppish protection officers do not expect you to, like, know their names although I think the one who buys my tights might be called Alan?

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