Helen Fenton

Catch: Definition and part of speech

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Catch

  1. n. A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other’s words.
  2. v. t. To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
  3. v. t. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
  4. v. t. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
  5. v. t. Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
  6. v. t. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
  7. v. t. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
  8. v. t. To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
  9. v. t. To get possession of; to attain.
  10. v. t. To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
  11. 1n. 1 A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other’s words.
  12. 1v. t. 1 To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Catamaran: Definition and part of speech

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Catamaran

  1. n. A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
  2. n. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; — used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
  3. n. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
  4. n. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Catanadromous: Definition and part of speech

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Catanadromous

  1. a. Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Catapasm: Definition and part of speech

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Catapasm

  1. n. A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.