catch
noun/kætʃ/, /ketʃ/
Слово англійською: catch
Переклад catch українською: втрата на мить, засув, захват, захоплення, здобич, клямка, пастка, підступ, вигідне придбання, спіймання, гальма
Детальний опис
- [countable] an act of catching something, for example a ball
- You made some brilliant catches today.
- He dropped several easy catches.
- [countable] the total amount of things that are caught
- a huge catch of fish
- [countable] a device used for fastening something
- Fran slipped the catch on the door, then turned to say goodbye.
- I can’t open the catch on this bracelet.
- [countable, usually singular] (informal) a hidden difficulty or disadvantage
- All that money for two hours' work—what's the catch?
- It sounds too good. There must be a catch.
- [uncountable] a child’s game in which two people throw a ball to each other
- [singular] (old-fashioned) a person that other people see as a good person to marry, employ, etc.
- He’s a good catch.
of ball
amount caught
fastening
difficulty
child’s game
person
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘chase’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French cachier, variant of Old French chacier, based on Latin captare ‘try to catch’, from capere ‘take’.
Idioms
(a) catch-22 | a catch-22 situation
- (informal) a difficult situation from which there is no escape because you need to do one thing before doing a second, but you need to do the second thing before you can do the first
- I can't get a job because I haven't got anywhere to live but I can't afford a place to live until I get a job—it's a catch-22 situation.