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catches
We have found lemma(root) word of catches : catch.
Definitions
[katʃ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped)
(e.g: she threw the bottle into the air and caught it again)
- capture (a person or animal that tries or would try to escape)
(e.g: we hadn't caught a single rabbit)
- (of an object) accidentally become entangled or trapped in something
(e.g: a button caught in her hair)
- reach in time and board (a train, bus, or aircraft)
(e.g: they caught the 12.15 from Oxford)
- engage (a person's interest or imagination)
(e.g: it was the business scheme that had caught his imagination)
- strike (someone) on a part of the body
(e.g: Ben caught him on the chin with an uppercut)
- contract (an illness) through infection or contagion
(e.g: he served in Macedonia, where he caught malaria)
- become ignited and start burning
(e.g: the rafters have caught)
Phrases:
- catch it
- catch someone's eye
- catch the light
- catch the sun
- you wouldn't catch — doing something
Origin
:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘chase’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French cachier, variant of Old French chacier, based on Latin captare ‘try to catch’, from capere ‘take’
[katʃ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an act of catching something, typically a ball
- a game in which a ball is thrown back and forth between two or more players
- a device for securing something such as a door, window, or box
(e.g: the window catch was rusty)
- a hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation
(e.g: there's a catch in it somewhere)
- an unevenness in a person's voice caused by emotion
(e.g: there was a catch in Anne's voice)
- a round, typically one with words arranged to produce a humorous effect
Phrases:
- catch it
- catch someone's eye
- catch the light
- catch the sun
- you wouldn't catch — doing something
Origin
:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘chase’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French cachier, variant of Old French chacier, based on Latin captare ‘try to catch’, from capere ‘take’
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