Contact and joining
Synonyms for catch
Synonyms for catch: capture, get, collar and grab. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for catch
Interchangeable with catch, one per sense
Audited under catch's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one catch carries in that sense.
- captureverb, in the sense "succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase"
- getverb, in the sense "grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name catch as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under catch and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
Did you catch the thief?
catch in 2 more sentences, same sense
- During the game of tag, she finally managed to catch her younger brother behind the shed.
- The zookeeper needed twenty minutes to catch the escaped parrot before it left the building.
How it behaves: In this sense catch usually takes a direct object naming the fleeing person or animal, and appears in everyday narrative or question form, as in catch the thief.
The true synonym
capture
Same sentence, swapped: Did you capture the thief?
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where catch stands in the sentence above.
- hitch
- snap
- rack
Opposites, in this sense
miss and release reverse catch as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of catch takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- miss
- release
grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
I did not quite catch your meaning there.
catch in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The new intern took a moment to catch the joke, but then laughed along with everyone else.
- She read the instructions twice before she could catch what the diagram was trying to show her.
How it behaves: In this sense catch is typically transitive, taking an abstract noun such as meaning, drift, gist, or joke as its object, and appears mostly in informal spoken register, often negated.
The true synonym
get
Same sentence, swapped: I did not quite get your meaning there.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- watch
- entrance
- translate
Opposites, in this sense
miss and misunderstand reverse catch as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of catch takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- miss
- misunderstand
Where catch turns up in the game
catch is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where catch is the trap
- senseverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is smell, in the sense "become aware of not through the senses but instinctively", so catch is there to be ruled out.
- tossverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hand, in the sense "to give or pass something to someone casually, often by throwing gently", and catch is on the board beside it.
- viewverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is consider, in the sense "look at carefully", and catch is one of the three tiles that lose.
- hitnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is striking, in the sense "the act of contacting one thing with another", and catch is on the board beside it.
Play catch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so catch reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
catch is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.