Catch On

Definitions: Catch On

Catch On

Verb

1. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

2. Become popular; "This fashion caught on in paris".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Catch On

Crosswords: Catch On

I'm gonna catch on fire 'cause (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing; performing artist: LEO SAYER)

And the sky might catch on fire. (Tonight and the Rest of My Life; performing artist: Nina Gordon)

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Books

• Catch on Skills Book Level C (Merrill Linguistic Reading Program) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Sorting catch on MILLER FREEMAN.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Sorting the catch on the MILLER FREEMAN.Credit: Fisheries.

Emptying the catch on the sorting table. The yellow and bluelines are "the tangles". The tangles ride on the bottom and stops chaffing of the net on rough bottom.Credit: Fisheries.

"Some kind of new game, it'll never catch on".Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Pakistan

Large supermarkets or chain stores for general consumer items still do not exist in Pakistan, though the trend may catch on soon, as one large supermarket has been established in Lahore in collaboration with a British chain of supermarket and has become a major point of attraction there. (references)

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Expressions using "catch on": catch on to ♦ catch on with ♦ i don't catch on. Additional references.

Albanian

kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), bie në të, bëhem i njohur (become famous, get about). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتشر (be widespread, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏إشتهر (become famous, become known, establish, rise, rocket), ‏أدرك أو يفهم الفكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разбирам (apprehend, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), харесвам се (catch the fancy, go down well), популяризирам се (become popular), използувам случая (seize the opportunity). (various references)

Czech

chytit se (catch at), chopit se (tackle, take), ujmout, stát se populární, prosadit se (make one's way through), porozumìt (understand), pochytit, kapírovat (cotton on, dig). (various references)

Finnish

onki (catch on hook and line, hook, hook and line), ei ottanut tulta (did not catch on). (various references)

French

comprendre (catch), se répandre, prendre (capture, catch), devenir populaire. (various references)

German

verfangen (be accepted, be caught, entangle, entanglement), sich durchsetzen (assert oneself, be accepted, be successful, prevail, take on, to win recognition, win through), kapieren (dig, get, latch on, savvy, twig, understand), einschlagen (adopt, bang in, bash down, bash in, beat in, cover, drive home, drive in, drive into, enter on, envelop, fell, follow, hammer down, hammer in, hit, hit out, knock in, knock out, pursue, sink in, smash down, smash in, stave in, stratification, strike, take, take up, to stave in, turn, turn up, wrap up), durchschlagen (bleed through, bleeding, blow, chop through, have a laxative effect, knock through, migration, sever, severance), ankommen (arrival, arrive, come, come across, come along, come down, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down, go down well, go over, hinge, move in, pull in, take off, to arrive, wander in). (various references)

Greek 

γίνομαι της μόδας. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפרסם (be published, become famous). (various references)

Hungarian

kapcsol (clasp, put through, switch, to catch on, to join, to switch, turn on), könnyen megért. (various references)

Italian

attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attach, attack, become attached, begin, bind, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, hitch, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, put up, stick, stick in, strike, strike up, tie, to put to, to yoke). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飲み込む (to catch on to, to digest, to gulp down, to learn, to swallow deeply, to take in, to understand), 血の巡りが悪い (dim-witted, slow to catch on), 血の巡りの悪い (dim-witted, slow to catch on), 呑み込む (to catch on to, to digest, to gulp down, to learn, to swallow deeply, to take in, to understand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のみ�"む (to catch on to, to digest, to gulp down, to learn, to swallow deeply, to take in, to understand), ちのめぐりがわるい (dim-witted, slow to catch on), ちのめぐりのわるい (dim-witted, slow to catch on). (various references)

Manx

goaill greim (catch, clinch, clutch, grab, grip, hang on). (various references)

Pig Latin

atchcay onay

Portuguese

compreender (bottom, catch, compass, comprehend, comprise, conceive, consist, embrace, get, grasper, grip pliers, have, imply, know, make out, perceive, Plumb, read, realize, see, sense, sympathize, take in, to understand, twig, understand), popularizar (banalize, popularize, vulgarize). (various references)

Romanian

pricepe (apprehend, catch, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, take in, tumble to, understand), deveni popular. (various references)

Russian 

стать модным, ухватиться за, понимать (apprehend, aprehend, comprehend, figure out, gain an insight into, get, get to know, perceive, realize, savvies, sense, take, twig, understand, understood). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, comprehend, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, realize, sense, tumble, twig, understand), razumeti (apprehend, cognize, comprehend, get it, see, understand), postati popularan. (various references)

Spanish

coger el truco, caer en la cuenta (dawn on, wise up), caer (come down, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall out, fall over, go, go down, hang, like, live, loll, plunge, set, sink, tilt, tip over, trip, trip over, trip up, tumble, tumble down), popularizarse, percibir lo gracioso, percibir (apperceive, apprehend, catch, detect, discern, draw, earn, notice, observe, perceive, sense), hacerse popular, alcanzar gran popularidad, afirmarse en el gusto. (various references)

Swedish

fatta galoppen, bli populär. (various references)

Turkish

tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, come in, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), moda olmak (be fashionable, be in vogue, be the wear, come into vogue, take on), kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out). (various references)

Ukranian 

ухопитися за (catch at), розуміти (appreciate, grip, know, perceive, take, think, understand). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: concha.

-2 letters: canto, catch, chant, coach, coact, conch, cotan, nacho, natch, notch, octan.

-3 letters: cant, chao, chat, chon, coat, coca, hant, nota, oath, tach, taco, than.

-4 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, cot, hao, hat, hon, hot, nah, noh, not, nth, oat, oca, tan, tao, tho, ton.

-5 letters: ah, an, at, ha, ho, na, no.

+1 letter: couchant.

+2 letters: notchback.

+3 letters: anchoritic, catholicon, chatoyance, chatoyancy, choanocyte, coelacanth, cornstarch, notchbacks, technocrat.

+4 letters: achondritic, anacoluthic, catholicons, chatoyances, choanocytes, chromatinic, coelacanths, outcatching, outcoaching, phonotactic, sycophantic, technocracy, technocrats.

+5 letters: accouchement, amphictyonic, biotechnical, cachinnation, chatoyancies, cornstarches, countermarch, cytochalasin, echolocation, encroachment, geotechnical, lycanthropic, nonarchitect, noncharacter, nontechnical, panchromatic, pantechnicon, phonotactics, technocratic, trochanteric, zootechnical.

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