Kick vs Catch - What's the difference?
kick | catch |
To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
* 1877 , , Chapter 1: My Early Home,
* 1895 , , Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
* 1905 , , Chapter 6,
* 1919 , , The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift,
To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
* 1904 , , Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,
To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
* 1905 , , Chapter 7,
To eject summarily.
* 1936 October,
* 1976 February 3, ,
(Internet) To remove a participant from an online activity.
(slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free onself of (a problem).
To move or push suddenly and violently.
* 2011 , Tom Andry,
(of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
* 2003 , Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project ,
* 2006 , Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove ,
A hit or strike with the leg or foot or knee.
* 1890 , , Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stable-Beer Dives,
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
The action of swinging a foot or leg.
(colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
(Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick.
(figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
(uncountable, and, countable) piquancy
* 2002 , Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations , , ISBN 0743229800, page 124 [http://books.google.com/books?id=cITFVpz2ri8C&pg=PA124&dq=kick]:
* 2003 , Sheree Bykofsky and Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails , , ISBN 1580629172, page 129 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GBO9qF3uXYUC&pg=PA129&dq=kick]:
* 2007 August 27, , volume 83, Issues 22-28
A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
(soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
(soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
a recoil of a gun.
(informal) pocket
An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
(chess) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
(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.
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, passage=The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.}}
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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 nouns the difference between kick and catch
is that kick is kick while catch is (countable) the act of seizing or capturing (jump).As a verb catch is
(lb) to capture, overtake .kick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See (l).Verb
(en verb)- Did you kick your brother?
- Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.
- I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
- A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.
- Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
- He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick .
- "If you did that, I'd kick'," answered Freddie, and began to ' kick real hard into the air.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- Sometimes he can kick' the ball forward along the ground until it is ' kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.
- "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."
- They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
- He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.
- By taking that medication, he managed to get his triggered phobia of heights kicked .
- I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
- He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
Bob Moore: No Hero,
- The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.
page 174,
- Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.
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- I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick "?
Descendants
* German: (l)Noun
(en noun)- A kick to the knee.
- A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.
- Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
- The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
- I finally saw the show. What a kick !
- I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick .
- The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
- The pool ball took a wild kick , up off the table.
- Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick .
- For extra kick , hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.
- The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.
- a long kick up the field.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "kick")Descendants
* German: (l)Derived terms
* drop kick * for kicks * free kick * get a kick out of * on a kick * kick about * kick against the pricks * kick around * kick ass, kick butt * kick at the can * kick back * kickban (Internet) * kickboxing * kick the bucket * kickflip * kick in * kick in the pants * kick in the teeth * kick it * kick like a mule * kick off (pos v) * kick-off (pos n) * kick one's heels * kick out * kick over * kick over the traces * kick someone when they are down * kickstand * kick start * kick the can, kick-the-can * kick the can down the road * kick the habit * kick up * kick up the arse/kick up the ass/kick up the backside/kick up the butt * kick up one's heels * kick upstairs * kick wheelEtymology 2
Shortening of (kick the bucket)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: