catch

/kætʃ/

意味: 捕まえること、引っかけ

例文: Haruki found the catch in the contract.
　　  ハルキが契約の裏を見抜いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: catch a ball(ボールをキャッチする), catch a cold(風邪をひく), catch a bus(バスに乗る)

定義: 何かを手でつかむことや、何かを見つけたり、聞いたりすることを指します。また、病気にかかることや、乗り物に間に合うことも意味します。

catchは約10,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
Noun: the quantity that was caught
Noun: a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
Noun: anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
Noun: a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
Noun: a restraint that checks the motion of something
Noun: a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
Noun: a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
Noun: the act of catching an object with the hands
Noun: the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
Verb: discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
Verb: perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
Verb: reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
Verb: take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
Verb: succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
Verb: to hook or entangle
Verb: attract and fix
Verb: capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
Verb: reach in time
Verb: get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
Verb: catch up with and possibly overtake
Verb: be struck or affected by
Verb: check oneself during an action
Verb: hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
Verb: see or watch
Verb: cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
Verb: detect a blunder or misstep
Verb: grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
Verb: contract
Verb: start burning
Verb: perceive by hearing
Verb: suffer from the receipt of
Verb: attract; cause to be enamored
Verb: apprehend and reproduce accurately
Verb: take in and retain
Verb: spread or be communicated
Verb: be the catcher
Verb: become aware of
Verb: delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: it sounds good but what’s the catch?
Noun: the catch was only 10 fish
Noun: he shared his catch with the others
Noun: he used a book as a stop to hold the door open
Noun: he played catch with his son in the backyard
Noun: Mays made the catch with his back to the plate
Noun: he made a grab for the ball before it landed
Noun: Martin’s snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away
Noun: the infielder’s snap and throw was a single motion
Noun: the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
Verb: She caught her son eating candy
Verb: She was caught shoplifting
Verb: I caught the aroma of coffee
Verb: He caught the allusion in her glance
Verb: ears open to catch every sound
Verb: The dog picked up the scent
Verb: Catch a glimpse
Verb: the rock caught her in the back of the head
Verb: The blow got him in the back
Verb: The punch caught him in the stomach
Verb: Catch the ball!
Verb: Grab the elevator door!
Verb: We finally got the suspect
Verb: Did you catch the thief?
Verb: One foot caught in the stirrup
Verb: His look caught her
Verb: She caught his eye
Verb: Catch the attention of the waiter
Verb: I caught a rabbit in the trap today
Verb: I have to catch a train at 7 o’clock
Verb: Catch some sleep
Verb: catch one’s breath
Verb: The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp
Verb: catch fire
Verb: catch the mood
Verb: She managed to catch herself before telling her boss what was on her mind
Verb: We overheard the conversation at the next table
Verb: view a show on television
Verb: This program will be seen all over the world
Verb: view an exhibition
Verb: Catch a show on Broadway
Verb: see a movie
Verb: I caught the hem of my dress in the brambles
Verb: The reporter tripped up the senator
Verb: did you catch that allusion?
Verb: We caught something of his theory in the lecture
Verb: don’t catch your meaning
Verb: did you get it?
Verb: She didn’t get the joke
Verb: I just don’t get him
Verb: did you catch a cold?
Verb: The fire caught
Verb: I didn’t catch your name
Verb: She didn’t get his name when they met the first time
Verb: She will catch hell for this behavior!
Verb: She captured all the men’s hearts
Verb: She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings
Verb: She got the mood just right in her photographs
Verb: We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater
Verb: The fashion did not catch
Verb: Who is catching?
Verb: he caught her staring out the window
Verb: I was caught in traffic and missed the meeting

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): apprehension, arrest, becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, catch up with, charm, collar, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, get, gimmick, grab, haul, hitch, match, overhear, overtake, pick up, pinch, see, snap, snatch, stop, take hold of, take in, taking into custody, trance, trip up, view, watch

Antonyms(反意語): unhitch

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adult, attach, attract, board, capture, change, contract, control, delay, drawback, erupt, fastener, game, get, hear, hit, hurt, indefinite quantity, learn, manner of speaking, object, perceive, play, reproduce, restraint, roll up, seize, spread, surprise, touch, understand, watch, witness

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accept, ace, acetylate, acquire, addition, address, adjust, affix, air bag, airbrake, alkalinize, amaze, americanize, append, apperceive, apprehension, arrester, ascend, ascertain, assibilate, assimilate, assume, backstop, bag, bale, band, bandy, barbarize, bat, bate, bean, beckon, bell, bellyband, belt, bid, bind, blow out, boil, borrow, bowl, box, brachycephalic, brain, brake, brake pad, brake shoe, break, break into, breakage, bring, brutalize, buckle, buffet, button, buy, buy time, calcify, capacitate, capacity, capture, carabiner, carbonate, caregiver, caseate, catch, catch on, centrist, chain, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, character, charm, clap, clasp, claw, cleat, clench, clinch, clinker, clip, clothespin, club, collapse, collar, collect, come, come by, come in, come round, commemorative, commute, complete, complexify, computer game, concretize, conjugate, conk, conquest, conservative, contact, containerful, convert, cool, corral, correction, corrugated fastener, cosh, cotter, countercheck, couple, crack, cradle, crash, creolize, cricket, cringle, croquet, cudgel, cure, curio, curl, cut, damage, damp, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deny, deoxidize, desalinate, destabilize, develop, die, dig, digest, dim, discard, discolor, discover, dissimilate, distill, divine, dolichocephalic, dose, dowel, draw, draw in, dream, dress, drift, drop, dry, ducks and drakes, dull, earn, elder, elocution, embark, enslavement, enter upon, entrain, evaporate, ex-spouse, exit, explode a bombshell, face off, fail, fall, fall for, fasten, fastener, feel, felt, feminize, field, fillet, film, find, finding, fingering, fixate, flabbergast, flip, floater, flocculate, fly, fold, follow, fomite, footstep, form, format, foul, freshen, fullback, fumble, fund, gag, gain, gamble, gel, gelatinize, geological formation, get, get the goods, give way, glaze, glom, glue, go out, golf, grab, gradate, grapple, grazing, grip, grok, grope, grow, growth, guessing game, gum, hail, hallucinate, handling, harden, harness, have, head, headspace, hear, hinge, hit, hitch, hoodoo, hook, hook and eye, hook up, host, hurt, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice, ice up, important person, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, inherit, insert, interpret, introject, ionize, isolate, isomerize, jack of all trades, je ne sais quoi, keepsake, keratinize, kick, kill, kiss, knot, lam into, land, large indefinite quantity, lashing, lease, leash, leave, liberal, liberalize, lick, light up, lighten, limber, limit, line up, link, listen, load, location, lock, locker, lump, make, make out, makeweight, man, mature, mellow, militarist, mind game, misperceive, misplay, modernize, modify, modulation, mold, moon, mortify, mount, move, mutate, muzzle, nab, nail, narrow, neighbor, normalize, nut and bolt, observe, obsolesce, obtain, occult, oldster, opacify, outage, output, oxidise, oxidize, pacifist, pall, palpation, paper chase, paper fastener, paring, part, partake, party game, pass, patrician, peg, penetrate, pick up, pin, pin down, pinball, plasticize, play out, pledgee, pledger, poll, pop, precipitation, preempt, press out, prick, prim, prisoner’s base, professional, professionalize, profit, promote, property, prosody, pummel, punch, purify, put out, putt, quarterback, rack, read, recede, receive, reclaim, recombine, recover, reflate, regenerate, region, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remains, reorient, replay, repress, reserve, restrict, resume, reticulate, revoke, ribbon, ring, ring-around-the-rosy, rise, roll, rubberneck, run, run up, saddle, safety belt, salinate, sandbag, saponify, scrape, screw, sea anchor, seal, sealing wax, see, see through, sense, separate, sequester, settle, shackle, shade, shallow, shear, shibboleth, shift, shiner, shock, skinful, slam, slide fastener, slug, smack, small indefinite quantity, smash, smell, smite, smoothen, snake, snap, snatch, snooker, sobersides, sock, soften, solarize, solve, sophisticate, spillage, spoilage, spot, spy, stabilize, stagnate, stall, start, stay-at-home, steepen, stiffen, stoic, stonewall, stratify, strengthen, stroke, stuff, sublime, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, supply, suppress, swat, swing, swipe, synthesize, tag, tankage, tap, tape, taste, tee off, teeter-totter, tether, thermostat, thoroughbred, thump, tickle, tighten, toggle, toggle bolt, tone, tongue, top-up, touch, train, trammel, transaminate, transform, transpire, treasure hunt, trip up, triviality, tug, turn, turn on, twinge, ulcerate, ullage, unblock, undergo, understand, undulate, usurpation, vagabond, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, volley, vulcanize, walk, wall, warm, warm up, watch, web, whack, whole, win back, wise up, witness, woman, worth, yoke

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bag, batfowl, bench hook, catch cold, doorstop, fair catch, fish, frog, get, harpoon, hasp, hold, hood latch, hook, hunt, intercept, interception, lasso, latch, mesh, net, pawl, preview, rat, rebound, recapture, reception, shoestring catch, snag, spectate, trap, tripper, visualize, work

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: apprehend, arrest, beguilement, beguiler, bewitchery, captivation, captive, capture, capturer, catch, catcher, catchment, catchy, charm, charmer, collar, enchantment, entrancement, fascination, grab, match, overtaking, seer, snap, snatch, stop, trance, trip-up, view, viewable, viewer, watch

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law, psychology, science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive, emotional, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

TOEIC600

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: surprise