catch

catch
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noun
1 act of catching sth
ADJECTIVE
awesome (AmE), brilliant, good, nice, spectacular
clean (esp. BrE)
difficult, tough
easy
game-winning (AmE)
acrobatic, diving, one-handed, running
slip (in cricket)
touchdown (in American football)
fair, legal (both AmE)
VERB + CATCH
get (esp. AmE), make (AmE), take (BrE)

Roger made some brilliant catches at today's game.

drop, miss
2 number of fish that sb has caught
ADJECTIVE
big, good, huge, large, record

Fishermen have been landing record catches this season.

poor (BrE), small
annual, total
VERB + CATCH
land, make
CATCH + VERB
decline, fall

Catches fell because of the new dam.

go up, increase
PREPOSITION
catch of

a huge catch of tuna

PHRASES
the catch of the day, the day's catch

a restaurant where you can sample the day's catch

3 device for fastening sth
ADJECTIVE
door, window
safety

the safety catch on a gun

VERB + CATCH
release, undo, unfasten

Fran released the catch on the door, then turned to say goodbye.

close
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verb
Catch is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑camera, ↑cat, ↑ear, ↑engine, ↑eye, ↑fisherman, ↑foot, ↑hand, ↑light, ↑lion, ↑owl, ↑police, ↑sob, ↑spider, ↑sun, ↑voice
Catch is used with these nouns as the object: ↑arm, ↑attention, ↑balance, ↑ball, ↑baseball, ↑blow, ↑boat, ↑bouquet, ↑breath, ↑bug, ↑burglar, ↑bus, ↑cab, ↑chill, ↑cholera, ↑cold, ↑cough, ↑criminal, ↑crook, ↑culprit, ↑diphtheria, ↑disease, ↑drift, ↑drip, ↑edge, ↑elbow, ↑end, ↑episode, ↑error, ↑expression, ↑eye, ↑ferry, ↑fever, ↑fire, ↑fish, ↑flash, ↑flicker, ↑flight, ↑flu, ↑fly, ↑football, ↑fugitive, ↑gaze, ↑gist, ↑glance, ↑glimpse, ↑glint, ↑heel, ↑herring, ↑hint, ↑hold, ↑illness, ↑imagination, ↑infection, ↑influenza, ↑interest, ↑intruder, ↑killer, ↑kip, ↑lifeline, ↑look, ↑malaria, ↑measles, ↑meningitis, ↑mood, ↑mouse, ↑movie, ↑murderer, ↑name, ↑news, ↑notice, ↑pass, ↑plane, ↑pneumonia, ↑rabbit, ↑ray, ↑reflection, ↑ride, ↑robber, ↑salmon, ↑sarcasm, ↑scent, ↑showing, ↑shuttle, ↑sight, ↑sleep, ↑smallpox, ↑smell, ↑snatch, ↑snippet, ↑sun, ↑suspect, ↑taxi, ↑thief, ↑tide, ↑train, ↑tram, ↑trolley, ↑trout, ↑tube, ↑villain, ↑virus, ↑wave, ↑whiff

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