Apple vs Catch - What's the difference?
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A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
1000 English basic words
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing. (jump)
(countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
(uncountable) The game of catching a ball. (jump)
(countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
(countable) Something which is captured or caught. (jump) (jump)
(countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
(countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
(countable) A fragment of music or poetry. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
(obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
* {{quote-book, 1678,
, passage=You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.}}
* T. Fuller
(countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
* {{quote-book, 1905, , Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon, page=204
, passage=There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.}}
(obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
* 1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 158:
(countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* {{quote-book, 1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, page=76
, passage=One night, I remember, we sang a catch , written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices. }}
(countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope!, page=268
, passage=The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song. }}
(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
* {{quote-news, 1997, May 10, Henry Blofeld, Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset, The Independent
, passage=It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.}}
(countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
* {{quote-news, 1894, September 16, , To Meet Lord Hawke's Team, The New York Times
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(countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
* {{quote-news, 1935, June 7, Robert F. Kelley, California Crews Impress at Debut, The New York Times, page=29
, passage= They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch' and getting on a terrific amount of power at the ' catch with each stroke.}}
(countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
* {{quote-book, 2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook
, passage=The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.}}
Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
* John Locke
A slight remembrance; a trace.
* Glanvill
(lb) To capture, overtake.
#(lb) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). (jump)
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#(lb) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
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#*:And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
# To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
#*1933 , (Sinclair Lewis),
#*:The publicsaid that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.
#*2006 , Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer,
#*:As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens..
#(lb) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
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#(lb) To discover unexpectedly; to surprise (someone doing something).
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#(lb) To travel by means of.
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#*:After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
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#*2002 , Orpha Caton,
#*:Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.
(lb) To seize hold of.
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#*:Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight .
#(lb) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
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#(lb) To grip or entangle.
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#(lb) To be held back or impeded.
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#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
#(lb) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process. (jump)
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#(lb) To have something be held back or impeded.
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#(lb) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
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#(lb) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
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#*1906 , Arthur W. Stevens,
#*:Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
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# To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
#*2001 , John Lull,
#*:If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
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(lb) To intercept.
#(lb) To seize or intercept a object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
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#*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , :
#*:she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself,.
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(lb) To receive (by being in the way).
#(lb) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
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#(lb) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
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#(lb) To be infected by (an illness).
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#(lb) To spread by infection or similar means.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
#*:Does the sedition catch from man to man?
#*(Mary Martha Sherwood) (1775–1851)
#*:He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching ."
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#*2003 , Jerry Dennis,
#*:the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.
#(lb) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
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#(lb) To be hit by something. (jump)
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#(lb) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
#*{{quote-book, year=1877, title=
, passage=The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.}}
# To get pregnant.
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(lb) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
#(lb) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. (jump)
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#*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
#(lb) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
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#(lb) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
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(lb) To seize attention, interest.
#(lb) To charm or entrance.
#*2004 , Catherine Asaro,
#*:No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
#(lb) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
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As a proper noun apple
is a nickname for new york city, usually “the big apple”.As a noun catch is
(countable) the act of seizing or capturing (jump).As a verb catch is
(lb) to capture, overtake .apple
English
(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.
Derived terms
* Adam's apple * alligator apple * an apple a day, an apple a day keeps the doctor away * Apple * apples and oranges, apples to oranges (to compare ) * apples and pears * apple aphid, apple aphis * apple-bee * apple-berry * apple blight * apple blossom * apple borer * apple-box * apple brandy * apple brown tortrix * apple bud and leaf mite * apple bud moth * apple bud weevil * apple-bug * apple butter * apple cake * apple canker * applecart * apple charlotte * apple-cheeked * apple-cheese * apple cider * apple clearwing moth * apple core * apple-corer * apple-crook * apple crumble * appled * the apple doesn't fall far from the tree * apple domain * apple-domed * apple-dowdy * apple-drane, apple-drone * apple drops * apple dumpling * apple dumplin shop * apple-eating * apple-faced * apple-fallow * apple fly * apple fritter * apple fruit weevil * apple fruit rhynchites * apple-garth * apple geranium * apple grain aphid * apple-grass aphid * apple green, apple-green * apple-grey * apple-gum * apple head, applehead * apple-headed * apple ice wine * Apple Isle * apple-jack, applejack * apple jacks * apple jelly * apple jelly nodules * apple-john * apple juice * apple-knocker * apple leaf miner * appleless * apple liqueur * apple maggot * apple martini * apple midge * apple mint, applemint * apple-monger * apple-mose * apple-moss * apple-moth * apple nut * apple of Adam * apple of discord * apple of love * apple of Peru * apple of Sodom * apple of somebody's eye, apple of the eye * apple-oil * apple orchard * apple pandowdy * apple-pear * apple-peeler * apple-peru * apple pie * apple-plum * apple-polish * apple-polisher * apple-polishing * apple-pomice * apple potato bread * apple Punic * apple pygmy moth * apple root aphid * apple rust * apple rust mite * apples * apples and pears * apple sauce, applesauce * apple sawfly * apple scab * apple schnapps * apple-scoop * apple seed, appleseed * apple shell * apple small ermine moth * apple-snail * apple-slump * apple snow * apples of gold * apple of one's eye, apple of somebody's eye * Apples of the Hesperides * apple sourpuss * apple's queen * apple-squire * apple strudel * apple sucker * appletini * Appletise, Appletiser * apple tree * apple turnover * apple twig-cutter * (Apple Valley) * Apple Wassail * apple-water * apple wedger * apple weevil, apple blossom weevil * apple-wife * apple wine * apple-woman * applewood * apple worm * apple-wort * apple-yard * a rotten apple spoils the barrel * as sure as God made little apples, sure as God made little apples * bad apple * bake-apple, bakeapple, baked-apple * baking apple * Baldwin apple * balm-apple * balsam apple * bell apple * the Big Apple * bitter apple * blade apple * bob for apples * bobbing for apples * Bragi's apples * candied apple, candy apple * caramel apple * cashew apple * cedar apple * cedar-apple rust * cherry apple * chess-apple * cider-apple * common thorn apple * compare apples with apples * cooking apple * crab apple, crabapple * Criterion apple * custard apple * Dead-Sea apple * desert thorn-apple * dessert apple * devil's apple * devil's apples * earth-apple * eating apple * egg apple * elephant apple * golden apple * green apple aphid * hedge apple * hogapple * horseapple * how do you like them apples? * Indian apple * Jamaica apple * java apple * Jew's apple * John-apple * June-apple * kai apple * kangaroo apple * kei-apple * lady apple * the Little Apple * love apple * Macoun apple * mad apple * Malay apple * mamey apple * mammee apple * mandrake apple * May apple, mayapple * McIntosh * median apple * Micah Rood's apples * monkey apple * monkey apple tree * oak apple, oak-apple * Otaheite apple * pear-apple * Persian apple * Peruvian apple cactus * pineapple * pink fir apple * pitch apple * polish the apple * pond apple * potato apple, potato-apple * prairie apple * prairie crab apple * prickly custard apple * Punic apple * queen apple * road apple * road apples * rose apple * rotten apple * sage-apple * sea-apple * seven-year apple * sheld-apple, shell-apple * she'll be apples, she's apples * Snapple * snow apple * soap apple * sorb-apple * southern crab apple * star apple * stocking-apple * stone apple * sugar apple * sweet apple * taffy apple, toffee apple * thorn apple * toffee apple * tropical soda apple * vi-apple * vine apple * water apple * wax apple * Westbury apple * wild apple * wild balsam apple * wine apple * winter apple * wise apple * wolf apple * wood apple * woolly apple aphidSee also
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catch
English
Noun
- The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
- The player made an impressive catch .
- Nice catch !
- Good catch . I never would have remembered that.
- The kids love to play catch .
- Did you see his latest catch ?
- He's a good catch .
- The fishermen took pictures of their catch .
- The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
- She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
- There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
- It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch ?
- Be careful, that's a catch question.
- I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
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- The common and the canon law lie at catch , and wait advantages one against another.
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- Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.
- Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
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- It has been writ by catches with many intervals.
- We retain a catch of those pretty stories.
Synonyms
* (jump) seizure, capture, collar, snatch * grasp, snatch * observation * prize, find; conquest, beau * (jump) haul, take * stop, chock; clasp, latch * snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch * (jump) snatch, fragment; snippet, bit * (jump) chorus, refrain, burdenDerived terms
* bycatch * catch fence * catchful * catchy * crowd catchVerb
Ann Vickers, p.108:
Medea, p.23:
Valencia 1-1 Chelsea, passage=The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.}}
In the Name of the Father, p.111:
Shadow on the Creek, pp.102-103:
Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep, p.63:
Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue, p.203:
The Living Great Lakes, p.63:
Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page=135
The Moon's Shadow, p.40:
