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watchest | catchest |

As verbs the difference between watchest and catchest

is that watchest is archaic second-person singular of watch while catchest is archaic second-person singular of catch.

watchest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (watch)

  • watch

    English

    (wikipedia watch)

    Etymology 1

    As a noun, from (etyl) wacche, from (etyl) . See below for verb form.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A portable or wearable timepiece.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
    More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
  • The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
  • * Milton
  • shepherds keeping watch by night
  • * Addison
  • All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
  • A particular time period when guarding is kept.
  • The second watch of the night began at midnight.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I did stand my watch upon the hill.
  • * Milton
  • Might we but hear / Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock / Count the night watches to his feathery dames.
  • A person or group of people who guard.
  • The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 65
  • Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch ; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
  • The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He upbraids Iago, that he made him / Brave me upon the watch .
  • (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch'', ''port watch .
  • (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
  • The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
  • * 2004 , Charles P. Nemeth, Criminal law
  • A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.
    Derived terms
    * hurricane watch * on one's watch * on the watch * pocket watch * stand watch * stopwatch * tornado watch * wristwatch

    Etymology 2

    As a verb, from (etyl) wacchen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
  • (label) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
  • (label) To mind, attend, or guard.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
  • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”}}
  • (label) To be wary or cautious of.
  • (label) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
  • (label) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
  • (label) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
  • (label) To act as a lookout.
  • To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
  • To be awake.
  • * 1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
  • So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched [...].
    Usage notes
    * When used transitively to mean look at something, there is an implication that the direct object is something which is capable of changing.
    Antonyms
    * ignore
    Derived terms
    * clock-watcher * watch it * watch like a hawk * watch the pennies * watch this space * watchman * watchtower

    See also

    * wait * wake 1000 English basic words

    catchest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (catch)

  • catch

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) The act of seizing or capturing. (jump)
  • The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
  • (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  • The player made an impressive catch .
    Nice catch !
  • (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  • Good catch . I never would have remembered that.
  • (uncountable) The game of catching a ball. (jump)
  • The kids love to play catch .
  • (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  • Did you see his latest catch ?
    He's a good catch .
  • (countable) Something which is captured or caught. (jump) (jump)
  • The fishermen took pictures of their catch .
    The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
  • (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  • She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
  • (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  • 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.
  • (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  • I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
  • (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 citation
  • , 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
  • The common and the canon law lie at catch , and wait advantages one against another.
  • (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 citation
  • , 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:
  • 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.
  • (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
  • Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
  • * {{quote-book, 1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, page=76 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , passage=
  • (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 citation
  • , 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 citation
  • , 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
  • It has been writ by catches with many intervals.
  • A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • * Glanvill
  • 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, burden

    Derived terms

    * bycatch * catch fence * catchful * catchy * crowd catch

    Verb

  • (lb) To capture, overtake.
  • #(lb) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). (jump)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
  • #*1611 , :
  • #*: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), Ann Vickers , p.108:
  • #*: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, Medea , p.23:
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= 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.}}
  • #(lb) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To discover unexpectedly; to surprise (someone doing something).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To travel by means of.
  • #:
  • #*1987 , , In the Name of the Father , p.111:
  • #*:After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
  • #
  • #*2002 , Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek , pp.102-103:
  • #*:Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.
  • (lb) To seize hold of.
  • #
  • #:
  • #*, III.2:
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To grip or entangle.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be held back or impeded.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*: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)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To have something be held back or impeded.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
  • #:
  • #(lb) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
  • #:
  • #
  • #*1906 , Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep , p.63:
  • #*:Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
  • #
  • #:
  • # To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
  • #*2001 , John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue , p.203:
  • #*:If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
  • #
  • #:
  • (lb) To intercept.
  • #(lb) To seize or intercept a object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
  • #:
  • #
  • #*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , :
  • #*:she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself,.
  • #
  • #:
  • #
  • #:
  • (lb) To receive (by being in the way).
  • #(lb) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be infected by (an illness).
  • #:
  • #(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 ."
  • #
  • #:
  • #*2003 , Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes , p.63:
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be hit by something. (jump)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1877, title= Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page=135
  • , passage=The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.}}
  • # To get pregnant.
  • #:
  • (lb) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  • #(lb) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. (jump)
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:“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).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
  • #:
  • (lb) To seize attention, interest.
  • #(lb) To charm or entrance.
  • #*2004 , Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow , p.40:
  • #*:No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
  • #(lb) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
  • #:
  • Synonyms

    * (jump) fang, snatch, grab * (jump) capture, take; snare, hook * (jump) take, get

    Antonyms

    * drop, release

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "to catch") * catchable * catchall * catchbasin * catcher * catch-breath * catch cold * catch a cold * catch a crab * catch a tan * catch as catch can * catch fire * catch it * catch on * catch out * catch over * catch up * caught in the act