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Backyard game for two
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catch
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The act of seizing or capture. (jump act of capturing s) 2 (context countable English) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball. (jump catching a ball s t) 3 (context countable English) The act of noticing, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catch \Catch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caught or Catched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Catching . Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, ...
Usage examples of catch.
Every day, top lawyers and accountants bustled in and out, hoping to catch the ear of the man who ruled this realm: Arthur Levitt, the SEC chairman.
Just then my eye was caught by the pragmatical old gentleman in the Greek grizzled wig, who was scrambling away in sore affright with half a score of authors in full cry after him.
Marchmont, whom the affrighted Camilla, springing forward, could only answer in catching by the arm.
Like them he had been a firm believer in homeopathy, until after his first fever, whereupon, unlike them, he made a grand slide back to allopathy and quinine, catching fever and carrying on his Gospel work.
God, or some one of the gods, in sending the souls to their birth, placed eyes in the face to catch the light and allotted to each sense the appropriate organ, providing thus for the safety which comes by seeing and hearing in time and, seeking or avoiding under guidance of touch.
The thrill of finding an allusion, of locating the precise source of a teasing echo, of suddenly catching an obscure pun or seeing what should have been an obvious joke makes the reader alert, curious, eager to find new puzzles to solve.
His amatory songs and catches are such poetry as Orlando would have liked to hang on the boughs in the forest of Arden.
Jass found himself caught in an agony of ambivalence, not for the first time that day.
As they ambled along, Taran caught his foot on a jutting edge of stone and he tumbled head over heels.
Unlike when Ambler had made love with his wife he and his lover often began to talk immediately, right after they had caught their breath.
Then Antelope caught it and she started swaying and curtseying to Bear and Grizzly.
Andy wondered whether they were all caught under the sway of some long gone but powerful personality, perhaps the very one who had caused antimacassar to be piled upon antimacassar.
It learned from a monk how to use antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a postmaster how to sound the Eustachian tube, from a dairy-maid how to prevent small-pox, and from an old marketwoman how to catch the itch-insect.
There he hooked legs into the ladder and stopped each of the arriving items, catching them easily in chest and arms, leaving them hanging somehow in the air, motionless beside the ladder.
While she was watching the arrowy birds, she caught sight of someone coming towards her from a clump of beech-trees, and suddenly saw that it was Mrs.