Catch vs. Hunt

To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp

To search through (an area) for prey

To stop (oneself) from doing an action

To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.

To capture or seize, especially after a chase

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill

To capture or take by trapping, snaring, or some other means

To seek out; search for.

To take in and hold or contain

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away

To discover or come upon suddenly, unexpectedly, or accidentally

To pursue game.

To become cognizant or aware of suddenly

To make a search; seek.

To reach just in time; get so as to be carried by

To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.

To overtake

To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.

To cause to become hooked, entangled, or fastened

To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.

To hold up; delay

To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.

To make contact with; strike

The act or sport of hunting

To propel an object so that it hits (something)

A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.

To become subject to or to contract, as by exposure to a pathogen

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

To become affected by or infused with

The hunting season for a particular animal

To suffer from the receipt of (criticism, for example)

A diligent search or pursuit

To perceive suddenly or momentarily

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

To hear or listen to

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

To grasp mentally; apprehend

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

To go to see (a performance, for example)

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

To get (something required), usually quickly or for a brief period

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

To attract and fix; arrest

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

To reproduce or represent effectively

To shift up and down in order regularly.

To deceive

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

(Baseball) To play (a game) as catcher.

The act of hunting.

To become held, entangled, or fastened

A hunting expedition.

To act or move so as to hold or grab someone or something

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

To be communicable or infectious; spread.

A pack of hunting dogs.

To become ignited

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.

(Baseball) To act as catcher.

To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; - often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

The act of catching, especially the grabbing and holding of a thrown, kicked, or batted ball before it hits the ground.

To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

A game of throwing and catching a ball.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

A quantity that is caught

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

Something that is perceived or noticed

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

(Informal) A person considered to be an attractive or admirable romantic partner.

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

A tricky or previously unsuspected condition or drawback

To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.

A device for fastening something or for checking motion

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

A choking or stoppage of the breath or voice

To shift up and down in order regularly.

A snatch; a fragment

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

(Music) A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The game secured in the hunt.

(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

A pack of hounds.

(countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

An association of huntsmen.

(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

A district of country hunted over.

(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

(countable) Something which is captured or caught.

United States architect (1827-1895)

A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

(countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

An instance of searching for something;

A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

(countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

(obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);

A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.

Pursue or chase relentlessly;

(obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.

Chase away, with as with force;

A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path;

The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent;

The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

Seek, search for;

A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.

Search (an area) for prey;

The first contact of an oar with the water.

A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

A slight remembrance; a trace.

(heading) To capture, overtake.

(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).

(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.

To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.

(transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.

(transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.

(transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).

(transitive) To travel by means of.

To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)

(heading) To seize hold of.

To grab, seize, take hold of.

(transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.

(transitive) To grip or entangle.

(intransitive) To be held back or impeded.

(intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.

(transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.

(intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).

(transitive) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.

To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.

To germinate and set down roots.

To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.

To handle an exception.

(heading) To intercept.

(transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).

To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.

To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.

To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.

(heading) To receive (by being in the way).

(transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).

(transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.

(transitive) To become infected by (an illness).

(intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.

To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).

(transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.

(transitive) To be hit by something.

(intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.

To get pregnant.

(heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.

(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.

To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).

(transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.

(heading) To seize attention, interest.

(transitive) To charm or entrance.

(transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).

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.

To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

To get possession of; to attain.

To take or receive; esp. 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.

To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

To attain possession.

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.

To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

Act of seizing; a grasp.

That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

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.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

A slight remembrance; a trace.

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

A hidden drawback;

The quantity that was caught;

A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect

Anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching);

A break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)

A restraint that checks the motion of something;

A fastener that fastens or locks a door or window

A cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth;

The act of catching an object with the hands;

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);

Discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state;

Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily;

Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;

Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

To hook or entangle;

Attract and fix;

Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping;

Reach in time;

Get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly;

Catch up with and possibly overtake;

Be struck or affected by;

Check oneself during an action;

Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers;

See or watch;

Cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled;

Detect a blunder or misstep;

Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

Contract;

Start burning;

Perceive by hearing;

Suffer from the receipt of;

Attract; cause to be enamored;

Apprehend and reproduce accurately;

Take in and retain;

Spread or be communicated;

Be the catcher;

Become aware of;

Delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned;