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catch fire
(encz) | catch fire,vznítit se Zdeněk Brož |
catch fire
(encz) | catch fire,vzplanout v: Zdeněk Brož |
catch fire
(encz) | catch fire,zapálit se Zdeněk Brož |
catch fire
(wn) | catch fire
v 1: start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited
suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" [syn:
erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust,
conflagrate] |
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To catch fire
(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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halt and catch fire
(foldoc) | Halt and Catch Fire
(HCF) Any of several undocumented and
semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive
side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several
well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360.
The Motorola 6800 microprocessor was the first for which an
HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the
processor to read every memory location sequentially until reset.
[{Gerry Wheeler, Byte, December 1977, p46, "Undocumented M6800
Instructions"
(https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-12)}].
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