单词 | catch |
释义 | Word Frequency catch(kætʃ) verbWord forms: catches, catching or caught 1. (transitive) to take hold of so as to retain or restrain he caught the ball 2. (transitive) to take, seize, or capture, esp after pursuit 3. (transitive) to ensnare or deceive, as by trickery 4. (transitive) to surprise or detect in an act he caught the dog rifling the larder 5. (transitive) to reach with a blow the stone caught him on the side of the head 6. (transitive) to overtake or reach in time to board if we hurry we should catch the next bus 7. (transitive) to see or hear; attend I didn't catch the Ibsen play 8. (transitive) to be infected with to catch a cold 9. to hook or entangle or become hooked or entangled her dress caught on a nail 10. to fasten or be fastened with or as if with a latch or other device 11. (transitive) to attract or arrest she tried to catch his eye 12. (transitive) to comprehend I didn't catch his meaning 13. (transitive) to hear accurately I didn't catch what you said 14. (transitive) to captivate or charm 15. (transitive) to perceive and reproduce accurately the painter managed to catch his model's beauty 16. (transitive) to hold back or restrain he caught his breath in surprise 17. (intransitive) to become alight the fire won't catch 18. (transitive) cricket to dismiss (a batsman) by intercepting and holding a ball struck by him or her before it touches the ground 19. (intransitive; often foll by at) a. to grasp or attempt to grasp b. to take advantage (of), esp eagerly he caught at the chance 20. (used passively) informal to make pregnant 21. catch it 22. catch oneself on noun 23. the act of catching or grasping 24. a device that catches and fastens, such as a latch 25. anything that is caught, esp something worth catching 26. the amount or number caught 27. informal a person regarded as an eligible matrimonial prospect 28. a check or break in the voice 29. a break in a mechanism 30. informal a. a concealed, unexpected, or unforeseen drawback or handicap b. (as modifier) a catch question 31. a game in which a ball is thrown from one player to another 32. cricket the catching of a ball struck by a batsman before it touches the ground, resultingin him or her being out 33. music a type of round popular in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, having a humorous text that is often indecent or bawdy and hard to articulate round (sense 31), canon1 (sense 7) Derived forms catchable (ˈcatchable) adjective Word origin C13 cacchen to pursue, from Old Northern French cachier, from Latin captāre to snatch, from capere to seize |
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