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.