英语词汇catch-的发音释义、词根词缀、结构分析、同源词、词频及词根记忆法-英语词根词缀词典

catch-, comb. form[Mainly the vb. used in phraseological combination, as catch-all, ‘that can or will catch all’; or attrib., as in catch phr., catching phrase, ‘phrase to catch’; but in sense 4 it may be the n.]I. With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a n., but capable also of being used attrib. or as adj.)1. In sense ‘one who or that which catches (what is expressed by the object)’, as † catch-bit, † catch-cloak, † catch-coin, † catch-credit, † catch-fish, † catch-fool, † catch-plume, catch-shilling (cf. catchpenny); † catch-dolt, some form of cheating or swindling; † catch-dotterel, ? a cheat, sharper; catch-'em-alive-o, slang name for a ‘fly-paper’ for catching flies; catch-water, (a) (see quots. 1887, 1879); (b) a vessel designed to catch water. (Primarily ns. but sometimes also used attrib. or as adjs.: see catch-all, -shilling, -water.) See also catchfly, catchpenny, catchpoll.Few of these are found before 1600.1611Cotgr., Tirelupin, a *catch-bit or captious companion; a scuruie fellow.1679Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 81 Cheaters, cutpurses, picklocks, *catchcloaks, coiners of false money.1611Cotgr., Gripp argent, a *Catch-coyne; a greedie or couetous Judge.1629Gaule Holy Madn. 86 Hath made him a new kinde of *Catch-credit, of his old couer-shame.1592Greene Def. Conny-catch. (1859) 4 At Dequoy, Mumchaunce, *Catch-dolt, Ourelebourse..none durst euer make compare with me for excellence.1671Glanvill Disc. M. Stubbe 2 Impostors, *Catch-Dotterels, Fops, Tories.1855Dickens Dorrit (Hoppe) Sticky old Saints, with..such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a *‘catch-'em-alive-o’.1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 163 Itinerant vendors of catch-'em-alive-o's.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 53 Sons of some *catch-fish, or chief fencer.1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 8 For pleasant *catch-fooles..he spares not To sweare hee's carelesse.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal, The retiarius wore a feather in his crest: and so it might be render'd a *catch-plume.1815Southey Lett. (1856) II. 402 (D.) The other article is upon a catch penny or rather *catch shilling ‘Life of Wellington’.1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln xii. 275 The *catch-water drain runs all winter.1838Civil Engin. & Archit. Jrnl. I. 256/2, I shall now proceed to describe the mode of discharging, by catch-water courses or drains, all the brooks and rivers which flow into it.1842G. Francis Dict. Arts, Catch-water drains, drains, or channels, cut in a slanting direction across and down embankments, therefore catching and carrying off the water which falls upon them.1861Smiles Engineers II. 160 Intercepting or catchwater drains.a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 503/2 Catch-water Drain, a drain to intercept waters from high lands, to prevent their accumulation upon lower levels.1877Ld. Hatherley in Law Rep. App. Cases II. 844 The weirs or catchwaters are used to divert the water to the lades.1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. vii. 23 In catch-water meadows the water is allowed to flow on to the most elevated portion..by means of a ‘feeder’.1869Echo 9 Oct., *Catch-work, or running men, when with the threshing machines, received as much as 3s. a day.1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin., Interceptor, a T-shaped cylindrical vessel employed in connection with marine engines to prevent particles of water from being carried over with the steam into the cylinders... Called also catch water.1901M. W. Travers Exper. Study Gases 33 The water runs into a catch-water below the bulb, and is conducted away.1963Times 7 Mar. 10/6 Fourteen miles of catchwaters have been built around the valley, and it is hoped they will catch about 90 per cent of the rain that falls.2. In sense ‘to catch, the catching of (the object)’, as catch-ball, catch-cold (also attrib.); hence catch-coldy adj.1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined Pref. 70 You are as good at *catch-ball..but you strike not so well.1881Mrs. Holman Hunt Childr. Jerus. 30 Children..playing catch-ball.1824J. McCulloch Highl. Scotl. III. 192 Sufficient warranty for this *catch cold.1825Scott Diary in Lockhart (1839) VIII. 148 No man..has less dread than I of the catch cold.1884Daily News 14 Nov. 5/4 Catch-cold weather.1884Blackw. Mag. Mar. 332/1, I am not a catch-coldy person.II. In attributive relation to a n.3. In sense ‘that catches or for catching’; a. lit., as catch-bar, catch-bolt, catch-boom, † catch-hook, catch-lock, catch-pot, catch-ratline (see ratline 2), catch-tank; catch-basin, (a) the receptacle placed beneath the grating of a sewer or other opening, to catch the dirt that is washed in; (b) a reservoir for catching and retaining surface-drainage over large areas; catch-box, a box-like clutch of a spinning machine; catch-drain, a drain or ditch, esp. on a hillside, to catch the surface water; also a drain by the side of a canal or conduit to catch the surplus water; catch-fake (see quot.); catch-meadow, ? a meadow irrigated by means of catch-drains; catch-pit, a pit to catch drainage sediment in water, etc.; also = catch-basin; catch plate (Colliery), an iron plate for catching the safety hook of the winding rope, and preventing the load from falling back, in case of overwinding; catch-point, a switch or point intended to derail a train, wagon, etc. (e.g. to prevent it from running on to a main line); catch reservoir (cf. catch pit); catch siding, a railway siding placed on steep inclines so as to catch and stop a carriage, etc. accidentally running back down the slope; catch-stitch, (a) Bookbinding = kettle-stitch; (b) (see quot. 1968); also as vb.; catch-wheel, a wheel capable of motion in one direction only, a ratchet-wheel; catch-work, the method of irrigating a sloping meadow by means of catch-drains (see quot.); also attrib. See also catchweed.1850Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1849 170 The second crank to slide the *catch bar.a1877Knight Dict. Mech. 503/1 Catch-bar (Knitting-machine), a bar employed to depress the jacks.Ibid., *Catch-basin, a cistern at the point of discharge into a sewer.1884Science III. 372/1 Whether any..system of catch-basins or reservoirs, could..mitigate..such..floods.1859U.S. Patent Off., Ann. Rep. 1858 I. 537 The levers or arms are designed to force back the *catch-bolt and lock-bolt.a1877Knight Dict. Mech. 503/1 Catch-bolt, a cupboard or door-bolt which yields to the pressure in closing and then springs into the keeper in the jamb. Usually retracted by a small knob.1905Terms Forestry & Logging 33 *Catch boom, a boom fastened across stream to catch and hold floating logs.1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 426 When the *catch-box 14 is in contact with the sheeve s.1892J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning 320 The wheel..is provided with a catch box..and by its means drives the shaft.1834Brit. Husb. I. 528 Where..the plane of the surface..presents a considerable descent, the *catch-drains instead of being carried straight across it, are cut in an angular direction across the line of descent.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Catch-fake, an unseemly doubling in a badly coiled rope.1751S. Whatley Eng. Gazeteer, Higham (Leic.), Great *catch-hooks and keepers of silver, with links of a great gold chain.1863Reade in All Y. Round 3 Oct. 126/2 His door..closed with a *catch-lock.1843Pusey in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. ii. 314 The worthless slope would be converted into *catch-meadow.1870Echo 6 May 1/4 Forming a number of large *catch pits, and passing the water on its way to the river through them.1882Gard. Chron. No. 420. 45 A slight slope to one corner, to a small catch-pit, for the purpose of collecting the drainage.1887Daily News 11 Jan. 2/7 The force with which the cage was hurled into the head gear was so great that the bolts which fasten the *catch-plate to the girders were torn away.1883Peel City Guardian 27 Jan. 6/1 The mineral train came on at considerable speed, passed the signals, and through the *catch-points.1895Daily News 7 Dec. 7/7 That catch points should be more clearly indicated.1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 144/2 A throw-off or derailing switch (‘catch-points’).1936Gloss. Terms Rly. Signalling (B.S.I.) 12 Catch points, trailing points provided on a rising gradient for the purpose of derailing a vehicle running back after breaking away.1909Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 11/4 Tin..runs through a channel..into a *catch-pot, whence it is ladled by small gourds..and poured.1962New Scientist 12 July 82/3 The catchpot was designed to hold the cathode in the event of its failure by fracture or melting.1887Daily News 4 July 3/4 To construct a *catch reservoir and pump into it water from the springs.1846Dodd Brit. Manuf. VI. iv. 87 ‘Kettle-stitch’..is supposed by some to be a corruption of ‘*catch’ or ‘ketch’ stitch, while others refer it to ‘chain’ stitch.1906D. Cockerell in E. Johnston Writing & Illum. xvi. 347 At about ½ inch from either end make an additional line across the back for the ‘kettle’ or catch stitch.1932D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 123/1 Herring-bone Stitch..used for the same purposes as catch-stitch.Ibid. 208/2 Catch-stitch..all round on to the linen—no stitches showing through.1964McCall's Sewing xiv. 259/1 Lap front shoulder darts to stitching line and catch-stitch halfway down from the top.1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet iii. 83 Catch-stitch, large cross-stitch used to hold heavy hems, invisible on right side.1920Blackw. Mag. May 706/2 The glen stream was never again diverted from its course, nor the *catch-tank drained.1845Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 619/1 This cylinder carries a *catch wheel..the teeth of which engage the click..attached to the wheel C by a screw.1799T. Wright Art Floating Land 82, I have seen the common plan of *catch-work watering resorted to.1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1022 Catch-work irrigation.b. fig. in sense ‘that catches or is meant to catch the eye, ear, fancy, etc.’; as catch-cry, catch-idea, catch-phrase, catch-sound, catchword. catch-line, a short line of type that catches the eye; spec. in Typogr. (see quot. 1938); catch title, an abbreviated title sufficiently expressive of the full title to identify the book. (In this use, it is often treated as an independent adj. and written without hyphen.)1901Daily Chron. 20 Nov. 4/5 Some very sound remarks..on certain *catch-cries of the day.1916W. B. Yeats Eight Poems, The clever man who cries The catch cries of the clown.1884Chr. World 19 June 454/1 He has..got hold of a few *catch-ideas.1866Dickens Repr. Pieces 146 What you wanted was two or three good *catch-lines for the eye to rest on.1909Webster, Catch line,..(a) A line containing the catchword at the foot of a page. (b) A short line in displayed matter.1938L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 35 Catch line, a line [of type] inserted at the top of matter by the compositor in order to identify it.1958T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 66/1 Catchline, a temporary descriptive headline on galley proofs. Also a short line of type in between two large displayed lines.a1850J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 206 The whole scheme, with all its plausible *catch-phrases.1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith i. ii. 73 Catch phrases of this kind are sufficient to satisfy the simple.1878Page Roberts Law & God 127 It is not the *catch-sound of a verse which has authority, but the divine spirit of God's revelation.1909Webster, *Catch title, a short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.1959L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) 62 Catchword title... Also called ‘Catch title’.c. catch question, a question that catches one out or has a catch in it; also as vb.a1860Alb. Smith Med. Student (1861) 14 Legendary ‘catch questions’.Ibid. 116 The inquisitors..are willing to help a student out of a scrape, rather than ‘catch question’ him into one.1905Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 3/1 The critics and commentators for centuries have been, like the philosophers, fooled by the catch-question of the Stuart King concerning the weight of a live fish in a bucket full of water.d. That is or may be taken or ‘caught’ to one's advantage.1895Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 7/1 Until the end of President Cleveland's term Great Britain has a statesman, and not a catch-vote politician, to deal with.1905Spectator 7 Jan. 5/2 To put the policy of development at the mercy of a catch vote.1907Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 7/5 There was a strong catch tide in favour of the swimmers.4. More loosely; as catch-crop, a crop got by catching or seizing an opportunity when the ground would otherwise lie fallow between two regular or main crops; hence catch-cropping, the raising of catch-crops; † catch-land (see quot.); catch-match, a match which is ‘a catch’ or great advantage to one of the parties; catch-weight (Horse-racing); also in Boxing and Wrestling (see quot. 1897).1884Sir T. Acland in Pall Mall G. 25 Feb. 2/1 *Catch crops rarely pay on a farm.1887Daily News 16 July 3/8 ‘Catch-cropping’..is now coming to be looked upon as a mark of skilful and thrifty farming.1674Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. Coll. 61 *Catch-land, land which is not certainly known to what Parish it belongeth; and the Minister that first gets the tithes of it enjoys it for that year.1824Scott St. Ronan's vi, She made out her *catch-match, and she was miserable.1820Hoyle's Games Impr. 477 General rules concerning Horse-racing. *Catch Weights are, each party to appoint any person to ride without weighing.1863Punch XLV. 86 The Archimandrite Nilos has offered to fight the Bishop of London for 20 pound a side, catch-weight.1872Pall Mall G. 1 Aug. 11 The ‘catch’ in ‘catch weight’—which is almost synonymous with ‘chance weight’—originally applied only to the weight which was ‘caught’ as best it might be.1887G. B. Shaw Let. 8 Feb. (1965) 164 The Socialist League have been challenged by C. Bradlaugh to pick a man to fight him at catch weight.1897Encycl. Sport I. 139/1 Catchweight (To box at)—Boxing without restrictions as to weight.1907Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 9/3 To wrestle the best of three falls for {pstlg}50 a side at catch-weight.1971Wrestling Rev. XVI. v. 4/1 A catchweight contest.

catch- /katʃ/ combining form.

ORIGIN: from catch verb or noun¹.

Mainly the verb in phraseological combs. as: (a) with nouns, in sense ‘a person who or thing which catches (the object)’, also in sense ‘to catch, the catching of (the object)’; (b) in attrib. relation to nouns in sense ‘that catches or for catching’.

DERIVATIVE catch-all noun & adjective (something) designed to catch or include various items, a general receptacle M19.
catch-as-catch-can noun & adjective (designating or pertaining to) a wrestling style in which all holds are permissible L19.
catch crop noun a crop grown between two staple crops (in position or time) L19.
catchfly noun any of certain campions with sticky stems, chiefly of the genera Silene and Lychnis (Nottingham catchfly,sweet-william catchfly: see sweet adjective & adverb) L16.
catchline noun a short eye-catching line of type, esp. one inserted by the compositor for identification M19.
catchpenny adjective & noun (a) adjective intended merely to sell readily, superficially attractive but of little intrinsic worth; (b)^†noun a publication etc. of this kind: M18.
catchphrase noun a phrase in frequent current use M19.
catch points noun pl. points to derail a train etc., e.g. when running away down a slope L19.
catch question noun a question with a deliberate hidden difficulty, a trick question M19.
catch stitch noun (a) Bookbinding kettle-stitch; (b) a cross stitch used for hems etc.: M19.
catch title noun an abbreviated title at the foot of a page sufficient to identify the work to which it belongs L19.
catch-up noun (colloq.) the action or process of catching up with someone; play catch-up, try to make up arrears or a deficit: M20.
catch-water noun (a) a drain or ditch for collecting surface or surplus water; also catch-water course, catch-water drain; (b) a vessel designed to catch water: L18.
catchweed noun (now rare or obsolete) cleavers L18.
catchweight noun & adjective (Sport) (a) noun unrestricted weight; (b) adjective unrestricted as regards weight: E19.
catchword noun (a) the first word of a page given at the foot of the previous one; (b) a word so placed as to draw attention, as the first or last headword repeated at the top of a dictionary etc. page, the rhyming word in a verse, the last word of an actor's speech which forms the cue, etc.; (c) a word or phrase caught up and repeated, esp. in connection with party politics, a slogan: E18.

词汇	catch-
词根词缀	OED SOED catch-, comb. form[Mainly the vb. used in phraseological combination, as catch-all, ‘that can or will catch all’; or attrib., as in catch phr., catching phrase, ‘phrase to catch’; but in sense 4 it may be the n.]I. With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a n., but capable also of being used attrib. or as adj.)1. In sense ‘one who or that which catches (what is expressed by the object)’, as *† catch-bit, † catch-cloak, † catch-coin, † catch-credit, † catch-fish, † catch-fool, † catch-plume, catch-shilling* (cf. catchpenny); † catch-dolt, some form of cheating or swindling; † catch-dotterel, ? a cheat, sharper; catch-'em-alive-o, slang name for a ‘fly-paper’ for catching flies; catch-water, (a) (see quots. 1887, 1879); (b) a vessel designed to catch water. (Primarily ns. but sometimes also used attrib. or as adjs.: see catch-all, -shilling, -water.) See also catchfly, catchpenny, catchpoll.Few of these are found before 1600.1611Cotgr., Tirelupin, a catch-bit or captious companion; a scuruie fellow.1679Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws* (1840) 81 Cheaters, cutpurses, picklocks, catchcloaks, coiners of false money.1611Cotgr., Gripp argent, a Catch-coyne; a greedie or couetous Judge.1629Gaule Holy Madn. 86 Hath made him a new kinde of Catch-credit, of his old couer-shame.1592Greene Def. Conny-catch.* (1859) 4 At Dequoy, Mumchaunce, Catch-dolt, Ourelebourse..none durst euer make compare with me for excellence.1671Glanvill Disc. M. Stubbe* 2 Impostors, Catch-Dotterels, Fops, Tories.1855Dickens Dorrit* (Hoppe) Sticky old Saints, with..such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a ‘catch-'em-alive-o’.1859Sala Tw. round Clock* (1861) 163 Itinerant vendors of catch-'em-alive-o's.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 53 Sons of some catch-fish, or chief fencer.1598E. Guilpin Skial.* (1878) 8 For pleasant catch-fooles..he spares not To sweare hee's carelesse.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal, The retiarius wore a feather in his crest: and so it might be render'd a catch-plume.1815Southey Lett. (1856) II. 402 (D.) The other article is upon a catch penny or rather catch shilling ‘Life of Wellington’.1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln* xii. 275 The catch-water drain runs all winter.1838Civil Engin. & Archit. Jrnl. I. 256/2, I shall now proceed to describe the mode of discharging, by catch-water courses or drains, all the brooks and rivers which flow into it.1842G. Francis Dict. Arts, Catch-water drains, drains, or channels, cut in a slanting direction across and down embankments, therefore catching and carrying off the water which falls upon them.1861Smiles Engineers* II. 160 Intercepting or catchwater drains.a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 503/2 Catch-water Drain, a drain to intercept waters from high lands, to prevent their accumulation upon lower levels.1877Ld. Hatherley in Law Rep. App. Cases II. 844 The weirs or catchwaters are used to divert the water to the lades.1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. vii. 23 In catch-water meadows the water is allowed to flow on to the most elevated portion..by means of a ‘feeder’.1869Echo 9 Oct., Catch-work, or running men, when with the threshing machines, received as much as 3s. a day.1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin., Interceptor, a T-shaped cylindrical vessel employed in connection with marine engines to prevent particles of water from being carried over with the steam into the cylinders... Called also catch water.1901M. W. Travers Exper. Study Gases* 33 The water runs into a catch-water below the bulb, and is conducted away.1963Times 7 Mar. 10/6 Fourteen miles of catchwaters have been built around the valley, and it is hoped they will catch about 90 per cent of the rain that falls.2. In sense ‘to catch, the catching of (the object)’, as *catch-ball, catch-cold* (also attrib.); hence *catch-coldy* adj.1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined Pref. 70 You are as good at catch-ball..but you strike not so well.1881Mrs. Holman Hunt Childr. Jerus.* 30 Children..playing catch-ball.1824J. McCulloch Highl. Scotl. III. 192 Sufficient warranty for this catch cold.1825Scott Diary* in Lockhart (1839) VIII. 148 No man..has less dread than I of the catch cold.1884Daily News 14 Nov. 5/4 Catch-cold weather.1884Blackw. Mag. Mar. 332/1, I am not a catch-coldy person.II. In attributive relation to a n.3. In sense ‘that catches or for catching’; a. lit., as *catch-bar, catch-bolt, catch-boom, † catch-hook, catch-lock, catch-pot, catch-ratline* (see ratline 2), *catch-tank; catch-basin, (a) the receptacle placed beneath the grating of a sewer or other opening, to catch the dirt that is washed in; (b) a reservoir for catching and retaining surface-drainage over large areas; catch-box, a box-like clutch of a spinning machine; catch-drain, a drain or ditch, esp.* on a hillside, to catch the surface water; also a drain by the side of a canal or conduit to catch the surplus water; catch-fake (see quot.); catch-meadow, ? a meadow irrigated by means of catch-drains; catch-pit, a pit to catch drainage sediment in water, etc.; also = catch-basin; catch plate (Colliery), an iron plate for catching the safety hook of the winding rope, and preventing the load from falling back, in case of overwinding; catch-point, a switch or point intended to derail a train, wagon, etc. (e.g. to prevent it from running on to a main line); catch reservoir (cf. catch pit); catch siding, a railway siding placed on steep inclines so as to catch and stop a carriage, etc. accidentally running back down the slope; catch-stitch, (a) Bookbinding = kettle-stitch; (b) (see quot. 1968); also as vb.; catch-wheel, a wheel capable of motion in one direction only, a ratchet-wheel; catch-work, the method of irrigating a sloping meadow by means of catch-drains (see quot.); also attrib. See also catchweed.1850Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1849 170 The second crank to slide the catch bar.a1877Knight Dict. Mech.* 503/1 Catch-bar (Knitting-machine), a bar employed to depress the jacks.Ibid., *Catch-basin, a cistern at the point of discharge into a sewer.1884Science III. 372/1 Whether any..system of catch-basins or reservoirs, could..mitigate..such..floods.1859U.S. Patent Off., Ann. Rep. 1858 I. 537 The levers or arms are designed to force back the catch-bolt and lock-bolt.a1877Knight Dict. Mech.* 503/1 Catch-bolt, a cupboard or door-bolt which yields to the pressure in closing and then springs into the keeper in the jamb. Usually retracted by a small knob.1905Terms Forestry & Logging 33 *Catch boom, a boom fastened across stream to catch and hold floating logs.1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 426 When the catch-box 14 is in contact with the sheeve s.1892J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning* 320 The wheel..is provided with a catch box..and by its means drives the shaft.1834Brit. Husb. I. 528 Where..the plane of the surface..presents a considerable descent, the catch-drains instead of being carried straight across it, are cut in an angular direction across the line of descent.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Catch-fake, an unseemly doubling in a badly coiled rope.1751S. Whatley Eng. Gazeteer, Higham (Leic.), Great catch-hooks and keepers of silver, with links of a great gold chain.1863Reade in All Y. Round* 3 Oct. 126/2 His door..closed with a catch-lock.1843Pusey in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc.* IV. ii. 314 The worthless slope would be converted into catch-meadow.1870Echo 6 May 1/4 Forming a number of large catch pits, and passing the water on its way to the river through them.1882Gard. Chron. No. 420. 45 A slight slope to one corner, to a small catch-pit, for the purpose of collecting the drainage.1887Daily News 11 Jan. 2/7 The force with which the cage was hurled into the head gear was so great that the bolts which fasten the catch-plate to the girders were torn away.1883Peel City Guardian 27 Jan. 6/1 The mineral train came on at considerable speed, passed the signals, and through the catch-points.1895Daily News 7 Dec. 7/7 That catch points should be more clearly indicated.1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 144/2 A throw-off or derailing switch (‘catch-points’).1936Gloss. Terms Rly. Signalling (B.S.I.) 12 Catch points, trailing points provided on a rising gradient for the purpose of derailing a vehicle running back after breaking away.1909Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 11/4 Tin..runs through a channel..into a catch-pot, whence it is ladled by small gourds..and poured.1962New Scientist 12 July 82/3 The catchpot was designed to hold the cathode in the event of its failure by fracture or melting.1887Daily News 4 July 3/4 To construct a catch reservoir and pump into it water from the springs.1846Dodd Brit. Manuf. VI. iv. 87 ‘Kettle-stitch’..is supposed by some to be a corruption of ‘catch’ or ‘ketch’ stitch, while others refer it to ‘chain’ stitch.1906D. Cockerell in E. Johnston Writing & Illum.* xvi. 347 At about ½ inch from either end make an additional line across the back for the ‘kettle’ or catch stitch.1932D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 123/1 Herring-bone Stitch..used for the same purposes as catch-stitch.Ibid. 208/2 Catch-stitch..all round on to the linen—no stitches showing through.1964McCall's Sewing xiv. 259/1 Lap front shoulder darts to stitching line and catch-stitch halfway down from the top.1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet iii. 83 Catch-stitch, large cross-stitch used to hold heavy hems, invisible on right side.1920Blackw. Mag. May 706/2 The glen stream was never again diverted from its course, nor the catch-tank drained.1845Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 619/1 This cylinder carries a catch wheel..the teeth of which engage the click..attached to the wheel C by a screw.1799T. Wright Art Floating Land 82, I have seen the common plan of catch-work watering resorted to.1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm* III. 1022 Catch-work irrigation.b. fig. in sense ‘that catches or is meant to catch the eye, ear, fancy, etc.’; as *catch-cry, catch-idea, catch-phrase, catch-sound, catchword. catch-line, a short line of type that catches the eye; spec.* in Typogr. (see quot. 1938); catch title, an abbreviated title sufficiently expressive of the full title to identify the book. (In this use, it is often treated as an independent adj. and written without hyphen.)1901Daily Chron. 20 Nov. 4/5 Some very sound remarks..on certain catch-cries of the day.1916W. B. Yeats Eight Poems, The clever man who cries The catch cries of the clown.1884Chr. World 19 June 454/1 He has..got hold of a few catch-ideas.1866Dickens Repr. Pieces 146 What you wanted was two or three good catch-lines for the eye to rest on.1909Webster, Catch line,..(a) A line containing the catchword at the foot of a page. (b) A short line in displayed matter.1938L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss.* 35 Catch line, a line [of type] inserted at the top of matter by the compositor in order to identify it.1958T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 66/1 Catchline, a temporary descriptive headline on galley proofs. Also a short line of type in between two large displayed lines.a1850J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 206 The whole scheme, with all its plausible catch-phrases.1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith* i. ii. 73 Catch phrases of this kind are sufficient to satisfy the simple.1878Page Roberts Law & God 127 It is not the catch-sound of a verse which has authority, but the divine spirit of God's revelation.1909Webster, Catch title, a short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.1959L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) 62 Catchword title... Also called ‘Catch title’.c. catch question, a question that catches one out or has a catch in it; also as vb.a1860Alb. Smith Med. Student (1861) 14 Legendary ‘catch questions’.Ibid. 116 The inquisitors..are willing to help a student out of a scrape, rather than ‘catch question’ him into one.1905Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 3/1 The critics and commentators for centuries have been, like the philosophers, fooled by the catch-question of the Stuart King concerning the weight of a live fish in a bucket full of water.d. That is or may be taken or ‘caught’ to one's advantage.1895Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 7/1 Until the end of President Cleveland's term Great Britain has a statesman, and not a catch-vote politician, to deal with.1905Spectator 7 Jan. 5/2 To put the policy of development at the mercy of a catch vote.1907Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 7/5 There was a strong catch tide in favour of the swimmers.4. More loosely; as catch-crop, a crop got by catching or seizing an opportunity when the ground would otherwise lie fallow between two regular or main crops; hence catch-cropping, the raising of catch-crops; † catch-land (see quot.); catch-match, a match which is ‘a catch’ or great advantage to one of the parties; catch-weight (Horse-racing); also in Boxing and Wrestling (see quot. 1897).1884Sir T. Acland in Pall Mall G. 25 Feb. 2/1 Catch crops rarely pay on a farm.1887Daily News 16 July 3/8 ‘Catch-cropping’..is now coming to be looked upon as a mark of skilful and thrifty farming.1674Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds.* Coll. 61 Catch-land, land which is not certainly known to what Parish it belongeth; and the Minister that first gets the tithes of it enjoys it for that year.1824Scott St. Ronan's* vi, She made out her catch-match, and she was miserable.1820Hoyle's Games Impr. 477 General rules concerning Horse-racing. Catch Weights are, each party to appoint any person to ride without weighing.1863Punch XLV. 86 The Archimandrite Nilos has offered to fight the Bishop of London for 20 pound a side, catch-weight.1872Pall Mall G. 1 Aug. 11 The ‘catch’ in ‘catch weight’—which is almost synonymous with ‘chance weight’—originally applied only to the weight which was ‘caught’ as best it might be.1887G. B. Shaw Let. 8 Feb. (1965) 164 The Socialist League have been challenged by C. Bradlaugh to pick a man to fight him at catch weight.1897Encycl. Sport I. 139/1 Catchweight (To box at)—Boxing without restrictions as to weight.1907Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 9/3 To wrestle the best of three falls for {pstlg}50 a side at catch-weight.1971Wrestling Rev. XVI. v. 4/1 A catchweight contest. catch- /katʃ/ combining form. ORIGIN: from catch verb or noun¹. Mainly the verb in phraseological combs. as: (a) with nouns, in sense ‘a person who or thing which catches (the object)’, also in sense ‘to catch, the catching of (the object)’; (b) in attrib. relation to nouns in sense ‘that catches or for catching’. DERIVATIVE catch-all noun & adjective (something) designed to catch or include various items, a general receptacle M19. catch-as-catch-can noun & adjective (designating or pertaining to) a wrestling style in which all holds are permissible L19. catch crop noun a crop grown between two staple crops (in position or time) L19. catchfly noun any of certain campions with sticky stems, chiefly of the genera Silene and Lychnis (Nottingham catchfly,sweet-william catchfly: see sweet adjective & adverb) L16. catchline noun a short eye-catching line of type, esp. one inserted by the compositor for identification M19. catchpenny adjective & noun (a) adjective intended merely to sell readily, superficially attractive but of little intrinsic worth; (b)^†noun a publication etc. of this kind: M18. catchphrase noun a phrase in frequent current use M19. catch points noun pl. points to derail a train etc., e.g. when running away down a slope L19. catch question noun a question with a deliberate hidden difficulty, a trick question M19. catch stitch noun (a) Bookbinding kettle-stitch; (b) a cross stitch used for hems etc.: M19. catch title noun an abbreviated title at the foot of a page sufficient to identify the work to which it belongs L19. catch-up noun (colloq.) the action or process of catching up with someone; play catch-up, try to make up arrears or a deficit: M20. catch-water noun (a) a drain or ditch for collecting surface or surplus water; also catch-water course, catch-water drain; (b) a vessel designed to catch water: L18. catchweed noun (now rare or obsolete) cleavers L18. catchweight noun & adjective (Sport) (a) noun unrestricted weight; (b) adjective unrestricted as regards weight: E19. catchword noun (a) the first word of a page given at the foot of the previous one; (b) a word so placed as to draw attention, as the first or last headword repeated at the top of a dictionary etc. page, the rhyming word in a verse, the last word of an actor's speech which forms the cue, etc.; (c) a word or phrase caught up and repeated, esp. in connection with party politics, a slogan: E18.
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