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Collocations for catch - noun

1. act of catching sth

ADJECTIVE

awesome (AmE), brilliant, good, nice, spectacular
clean (esp. BrE)
difficult, tough
easy
game-winning (AmE)
acrobatic, diving, one-handed, running
slip (in cricket)
touchdown (in American football)
fair, legal (both AmE)

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VERB + catch

get (esp. AmE), make (AmE), take (BrE)
Roger made some brilliant catches at today's game.
drop, miss

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2. number of fish that sb has caught

ADJECTIVE

big, good, huge, large, record
Fishermen have been landing record catches this season.
poor (BrE), small
annual, total

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VERB + catch

land, make

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catch + VERB

decline, fall
Catches fell because of the new dam.
go up, increase

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PREPOSITION

catch of
a huge catch of tuna

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PHRASES

the catch of the day, the day's catch
a restaurant where you can sample the day's catch

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3. device for fastening sth

ADJECTIVE

door, window
safety
the safety catch on a gun

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VERB + catch

release, undo, unfasten
Fran released the catch on the door, then turned to say goodbye.
close

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Collocations for catch - verb

Catch is used with these nouns as the subject:
camera, cat, ear, engine, eye, fisherman, foot, hand, light, lion, owl, police, sob, spider, sun, voice

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Catch is used with these nouns as the object:
arm, attention, balance, ball, baseball, blow, boat, bouquet, breath, bug, burglar, bus, cab, chill, cholera, cold, cough, criminal, crook, culprit, diphtheria, disease, drift, drip, edge, elbow, end, episode, error, expression, eye, ferry, fever, fire, fish, flash, flicker, flight, flu, fly, football, fugitive, gaze, gist, glance, glimpse, glint, heel, herring, hint, hold, illness, imagination, infection, influenza, interest, intruder, killer, kip, lifeline, look, malaria, measles, meningitis, mood, mouse, movie, murderer, name, news, notice, pass, plane, pneumonia, rabbit, ray, reflection, ride, robber, salmon, sarcasm, scent, showing, shuttle, sight, sleep, smallpox, smell, snatch, snippet, sun, suspect, taxi, thief, tide, train, tram, trolley, trout, tube, villain, virus, wave, whiff

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