Develop and Catch

verb

• Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
  • usage: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
• Work out.
  • usage: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
  • synonyms: evolve, germinate
• Gain through experience.
  • usage: "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
  • synonyms: acquire, evolve
• Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes. )
  • usage: "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
  • synonyms: grow, produce, get, acquire
• Come into existence; take on form or shape.
  • usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • synonyms: originate, arise, rise, uprise, spring up, grow
• Change the use of and make available or usable.
  • usage: "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
  • synonyms: build up
• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: explicate, formulate
• Create by training and teaching.
  • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • synonyms: train, prepare, educate
• Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
  • usage: "The plot developed slowly";
• Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.
  • usage: "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
• Become technologically advanced.
  • usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
  • synonyms: modernize, modernise
• Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.
  • usage: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
  • synonyms: make grow
• Generate gradually.
  • usage: "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
• Grow emotionally or mature.
  • usage: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
  • synonyms: grow
• Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
  • usage: "Please develop this roll of film for me"
• Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
• Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
  • usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
• Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
  • usage: "develop the rook"
• Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
  • usage: "develop the melody and change the key"
• Happen.
  • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • synonyms: break, recrudesce
• Expand in the form of a series.
  • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"

• (v.i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
• (v.i.) To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.
• (v.t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
• (v.t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
• (v.t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
• (v.t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
• (v.t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

noun

• A drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident.
  • usage: "it sounds good but what's the catch"
  • synonyms: gimmick
• The quantity that was caught.
  • usage: "the catch was only 10 fish"
  • synonyms: haul
• A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect.
  • synonyms: match
• Anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching. )
  • usage: "he shared his catch with the others"
• A break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion. )
• A restraint that checks the motion of something.
  • usage: "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
  • synonyms: stop
• A fastener that fastens or locks a door or window.
• A cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth.
  • usage: "he played catch with his son in the backyard"
• The act of catching an object with the hands.
  • usage: "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion"
  • synonyms: grab, snatch, snap
• The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal. )
  • usage: "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
  • synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody

verb

• Discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state.
  • usage: "She caught her son eating candy"; "She was caught shoplifting"
• Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily.
  • usage: "I caught the aroma of coffee"; "He caught the allusion in her glance"; "ears open to catch every sound"; "The dog picked up the scent"; "Catch a glimpse"
  • synonyms: pick up
• Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot.
  • usage: "the rock caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach"
  • synonyms: get
• Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of.
  • usage: "Catch the ball"; "Grab the elevator door"
  • synonyms: grab, take hold of
• Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase.
  • usage: "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief"
  • synonyms: get, capture
• To hook or entangle.
  • usage: "One foot caught in the stirrup"
  • synonyms: hitch
• Attract and fix.
  • usage: "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
  • synonyms: arrest, get
• Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping.
  • usage: "I caught a rabbit in the trap today"
  • synonyms: capture
• Reach in time.
  • usage: "I have to catch a train at 7 o'clock"
• Get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly.
  • usage: "Catch some sleep"; "catch one's breath"
• Catch up with and possibly overtake.
  • usage: "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
  • synonyms: overtake, catch up with
• Be struck or affected by.
  • usage: "catch fire"; "catch the mood"
• Check oneself during an action.
  • usage: "She managed to catch herself before telling her boss what was on her mind"
• Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers.
  • usage: "We overheard the conversation at the next table"
  • synonyms: take in, overhear
• See or watch.
  • usage: "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"
  • synonyms: watch, view, see, take in
• Cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled.
  • usage: "I caught the hem of my dress in the brambles"
• Detect a blunder or misstep.
  • usage: "The reporter tripped up the senator"
  • synonyms: trip up
• Grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of.
  • usage: "did you catch that allusion"; "We caught something of his theory in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get it"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him"
  • synonyms: get
• Contract.
  • usage: "did you catch a cold"
• Start burning.
  • usage: "The fire caught"
• Perceive by hearing.
  • usage: "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time"
  • synonyms: get
• Suffer from the receipt of.
  • usage: "She will catch hell for this behavior"
  • synonyms: get
• Attract; cause to be enamored.
  • usage: "She captured all the men's hearts"
  • synonyms: capture, enamour, trance, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
• Apprehend and reproduce accurately.
  • usage: "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs"
  • synonyms: get
• Take in and retain.
  • usage: "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater"
• Spread or be communicated.
  • usage: "The fashion did not catch"
• Be the catcher.
  • usage: "Who is catching"
• Become aware of.
  • usage: "he caught her staring out the window"
• Delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned.
  • usage: "I was caught in traffic and missed the meeting"

• (n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.
• (v.t.) To take or receive; especially to take by sympathy, contagion, infection or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
• (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
• (v.t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
• (v.t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
• (v.t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
• (n.) Something desirable to be caught, especially a husband or wife in matrimony.
• (v.t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
• (v.i.) To spread by or as by, infecting; to communicate.
• (v.i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
• (v.t.) To get possession of; to attain.
• (n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
• (v.t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
• (v.t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
• (v.t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
• (v.t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
• (v.i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
• (n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
• (n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
• (v.i.) To attain possession.
• (v.t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
• (n.) A slight remembrance; a trace.