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To catch up
(gcide) | Catch \Catch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caughtor Catched; p. pr.
& vb. n. Catching. Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen,
OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser,
fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of
capere to take, catch. See Capacious, and cf. Chase,
Case a box.]
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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.
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2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
"They pursued . . . and caught him." --Judg. i. 6.
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3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as,
to catch a bird or fish.
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4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his
words". --Mark xii. 13.
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5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to
catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the
issue." --Tennyson.
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6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the
adjoining building.
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7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
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The soothing arts that catch the fair. --Dryden.
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8. To get possession of; to attain.
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Torment myself to catch the English throne. --Shak.
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9. 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.
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10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to
catch one in the act of stealing.
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11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
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To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited.
to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer
punishment. [Colloq.]
To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking.
[Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." --Dickens.
To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.
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To catch up with
(gcide) | Catch \Catch\, v. i.
1. To attain possession. [Obs.]
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Have is have, however men do catch. --Shak.
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2. To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light
obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches
so as not to open.
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3. To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
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4. To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
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Does the sedition catch from man to man? --Addison.
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To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be eager to get or
use. "[To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the
state." --Addison.
To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.
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To catch upon the hip
(gcide) | Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of
cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
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1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of
the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
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2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two
sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall
plates running in different directions.
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3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end
post meets the top chord. --Waddell.
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Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also
haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone
and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the
intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof,
covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall
plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends
and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or
get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from
wresting. --Shak.
To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat
utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.
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