Catcher

Definition: Catcher

Catcher

Noun

1. (baseball or softball) the person who plays the position of catcher.

2. The position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate".

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

Date "catcher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Mining

Occupations

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Synonym: Catcher

Crosswords: Catcher

French (wrestle).

The Catcher (1972)

Alice and the Dog Catcher (1924)

The Fable of the Mouse Catcher (1923)

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Books

• CliffsNotes^TM The Catcher in the Rye (reference)

• Mind Catcher (reference)

• The Catcher in the Rye (reference)

• The Eagle Catcher (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Conflict Catcher 8 Flat Pak (reference)

• Conflict Catcher 9 (reference)

• Conflict Catcher 9 Upgrade (reference)

• CASADY & GREENE Conflict Catcher 9 (Macintosh) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• American Lawn Mower Company 1ST-SP Reel Mower Grass Catcher (reference)

• Norpro Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher (reference)

• Black & Decker MC-001 Lawn Mower Grass Catcher (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Current meter with trash catcher to keep impeller from being fouled Deployed off of FERREL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader (red ) and David Manzannares, RC&D Coordinator inspect a large organic debris catcher designed by NRCS after the Los Alamos fires. These catchers prevented large debris from moving down stream casuing problems in s. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Catcher of the Ulster nine. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "catcher": Boot catcher ♦ Caterpillar catcher ♦ dog catcher ♦ eye catcher ♦ flack catcher ♦ flak catcher ♦ Gnat catcher ♦ Mail catcher ♦ oyster catcher ♦ pass catcher ♦ rat catcher ♦ shrimp catcher ♦ slave catcher ♦ spider catcher ♦ Thief catcher ♦ Torpedo catcher ♦ whale catcher. Additional references.

Ending with "catcher": bird-catcher, bullet-catcher, Cony-catcher, cow-catcher, drip-catcher, eye-catcher, fart-catcher, fly-catcher, mind-catcher, mole-catcher, oyster-catcher, rat-catcher, spy-catcher, vote-catcher, Word-catcher.

Arabic 

‏أكال المحار (oyster catcher). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стридояд (oyster catcher, sea-pie). (various references)

Chinese 

捕手 , 俘获器. (various references)

Danish

tovinget opfanger (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), optageranordning i to dele (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), opfangningsramme i to stykker (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), opfanger i to stykker (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), oliebakke (oil catcher, save all), blikfang (catching, eye-catcher, facing). (various references)

Dutch

tweevleugelig opvangscherm (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), paradijsvliegenvanger (paradise fly catcher), lekbakje (oil catcher, save all), blikvanger (catching, eye-catcher). (various references)

Farsi 

گیرنده (Catchy, Grantee, Holder, Payee, Prehensile, Receiver, Receptor, Recipient), بدست اورنده (Provider, Securer). (various references)

French

Terpsiphone bourbonnensis (paradise fly catcher), gobe-mouches paradisier (paradise fly catcher), dispositif récepteur à deux éléments (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), attrape-regard (eye catcher), accroche-regard (eye catcher), égouttoir (oil catcher). (various references)

German

fänger (backstop, captor, fielder, Hunter, sealer, trapper, whaler). (various references)

Greek 

συλλέκτησ (collator, collector, compiler, gleaner, picker), αυτόσ που πιάνει. (various references)

Hebrew 

לכדן. (various references)

Hungarian

fogójátékos. (various references)

Italian

ricevitore (receiver). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捕手 , キャッシュレス社会 (cabaret, cabaret club, cabinet, caching, caddie, caddie bag, caddy, caddy bag, Cadillac, call waiting, cannon, cannonball, canola, canon, cap, capacitance, capacitor, capacity, capless, cashless society, castle, catch, catch ball, catch bar, catch copy, catch sales, catchphrase, catchword, cat's-eye, catwalk, caviar, play catch, top reporter at a newspaper's local office). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほしゅ (conservative, maintaining), キャッチャー . (various references)

Korean 

포수 (Cannoneer, Cannonier). (various references)

Manx

tayreyder (apprehender, fielder), glackeyder (fielder, pick up, receiver, taker). (various references)

Pig Latin

atchercay.(various references)

Portuguese

papa-moscas (Ilhas Maurícias) (brush warbler, paradise fly catcher), dispositivo receptor de dois elementos (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher). (various references)

Romanian

capcanã (death trap, decoy, gin, hook, net, noose, pit fall, pitfall, snare, toil, trap, wait), prinzãtor. (various references)

Russian 

ловушка (booby trap, catch, cobweb, decoy, entrapment, fall-trap, man-trap, noose, snare, springe, trap). (various references)

Scottish

trìlleachan (pied oyster catcher). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

onaj koji lovi, hvatač (grasper, nipper). (various references)

Spanish

colector de dos elementos (two-piece catcher, two-wing catcher), reclamo (advertisement, advertising, birdcall, catchword, decoy, publicity, quail-call, quail-pipe), ostrero (oyster catcher). (various references)

Swedish

valfångstfartyg (whale catcher, whaler), strandskata (oyster catcher), fångstfartyg (fishing boat, sealer, whale catcher). (various references)

Turkish

yakalayan kimse, yakalayan şey. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "catcher": catchers. (additional references)

Words ending with "catcher": cowcatcher, dogcatcher, flycatcher, gnatcatcher, oystercatcher. (additional references)

Words containing "catcher": cowcatchers, dogcatchers, flycatchers, gnatcatchers, oystercatchers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Catcher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ashcher, cachar, cacher, Capcha, Carchayra, catched, catchee, Catchen, Cathar, cathcom, cathe, cather, cathera, cathet, Cotcher, karcher, Satkhira. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cachet, cratch, rachet.

-2 letters: cache, caret, carte, catch, cater, chare, chart, cheat, chert, crate, earth, hater, heart, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, retch, tache, teach, theca, trace.

-3 letters: ache, acre, arch, care, cart, cate, ceca, char, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, race, rate, rath, rhea, tace, tach, tahr.

+1 letter: catchers, catchier, cratches.

+2 letters: architect, cartouche, character, scratched, scratcher, scratches, theocracy.

+3 letters: architects, carritches, cartouches, catechizer, characters, charactery, cowcatcher, czarevitch, dogcatcher, escharotic, flycatcher, octarchies, scratchers, scratchier, technocrat, tetrarchic, theocratic, trenchancy, watchcries.

+4 letters: backstretch, catachreses, catachresis, catchphrase, catechizers, chanticleer, charactered, charcuterie, chocolatier, cowcatchers, dogcatchers, escharotics, eucharistic, euchromatic, flycatchers, gnatcatcher, scratchiest, technocracy, technocrats, theocracies, weathercock.

+5 letters: archetypical, architecture, catachrestic, cataphoretic, catchphrases, chalcopyrite, chanticleers, characterful, characteries, charactering, characterize, charcuteries, chocolatiers, cornstarches, countermarch, crosshatched, crosshatches, crosspatches, czarevitches, encroachment, gnatcatchers, heterocercal, mesothoracic, metathoracic, nonarchitect, noncharacter, pyrocatechol, scratchiness, technocratic, theocratical, thermotactic, trenchancies, trochanteric, weathercocks.