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TO CATCH AT

Definition: TO CATCH AT

TO CATCH AT

1. To attempt to seize; to be eager to get or use. ``[To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the state.'' --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO CATCH AT

English words defined with "TO CATCH AT": Berme ♦ catch, catch up with, Catch-basin, Catchdrain ♦ diaper ♦ Eaves board ♦ Fish slide, flat out ♦ make up ♦ napkin, nappy ♦ To grasp at. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TO CATCH AT": Agecroft device, amateur packet radio, AUTOMATIC STACKER ♦ Birds, BLANKET-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, BUTT MAKER ♦ CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL, CIGAR BRANDER, CROTALARIA GUATEMALENSIS, CUT-OFF-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ die, DRIER OPERATOR, DRUM, Drowning Men ♦ FARM-MACHINE TENDER, FARMWORKER, MACHINE, fisher, trap, FISHER, WEIR ♦ GRANULATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, granulator operator ♦ HOOKER-LASTER ♦ Lie at the Catch ♦ NUT GRINDER ♦ Pasch Eggs, Petersen grab, PROFILING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, recessing-machine operator. (references)

Use in Literature: TO CATCH AT

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Still, however, affection was glad to catch at any reasonable excuse for not hurrying on the wretched moment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: TO CATCH AT

Language		Translations for "TO CATCH AT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		utánakap (to snatch). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay atchcay atay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO CATCH AT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-h-o-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: toccata.
	-3 letters: attach.
	-4 letters: cacao, catch, chott, coach, coact, cotta.
	-5 letters: acta, caca, chao, chat, coat, coca, oath, tach, taco, tact, that.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: TO CATCH AT

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 43 41 54 43 48 41 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000 00100000 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#32 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0043 0041 0054 0043 0048 0041 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492373554374223554

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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