catch
Definition of catch:
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part of speech: noun
A trick.
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part of speech: verb
To be contagious:- pa. t. and pa. p. caught ( kawt).
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part of speech: verb
To seize suddenly; to lay hold on with the hands; to take or receive by exposure, as a cold, or a disease by infection; to ensnare; to overtake.
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part of speech: noun
Seizure: anything that seizes or holds: that which is caught: a sudden advantage taken: a song the parts of which are caught up by different voices.
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part of speech: noun
Anything that seizes or holds; the act of seizing; a sudden advantage taken; a song in parts, in which those singing catch up the strain one after the other at various intervals.
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part of speech: verb
To take hold of: to seize after pursuit: to trap or insnare: to take a disease by infection.
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Common misspellings:
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- cetch (11.3%)
- ctach (2.3%)
- coatch (0.8%)
- cach (14.5%)
- cought (0.4%)
- cacth (10.2%)
- cauth (0.4%)
- cathc (12.5%)
- caht (0.4%)
- crach (0.4%)
- chatch (7.8%)
- cautch (1.6%)
- ctahc (0.8%)
- clatch (0.8%)
- atch (0.4%)
- catcht (0.4%)
- cactch (0.8%)
- ceach (0.8%)
- catche (0.4%)
- cattch (0.8%)
- chach (1.2%)
- cathch (2.7%)
- cath (21.5%)
- catach (0.8%)
- cacht (0.8%)
- catched (3.5%)
- catrch (1.2%)
- catuch (0.8%)
Usage examples for catch:
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She called out: " Catch
"The Legacy of Cain" – Wilkie Collins -
Come on, we'll catch 'em up this way!
"Some Experiences of an Irish R.M." – E. OE. Somerville Martin Ross -
I'll try and catch thee no more, only come down, come down!
"Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales" – Anonymous -
We'd never catch the fellow now.
"Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery" – Joan Clark
