1. To capture or kill, as in hunting.
2. To hang loosely, like an empty bag.
3. To put into a bag.
1. To become popular.
2. To understand, usually after some initial difficulty; SYN. get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it.
3. When a fashion or habit becomes popular and is adopted by many people, it catches on. When a product or service becomes popular and is used or bought by many people, it catches on.
4. When you eventually begin to understand something or begin to learn a skill after practicing and studying, you catch on.
1. To take or grasp suddenly.
2. To make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand.
3. To obtain illegally or unscrupulously.
4. To capture the attention of; SYN. seize.
1. To seize suddenly.
2. To tag the base runner to get him out.
1. To take and lift upward; SYN. lift up, gather up.
2. To take up by hand
3. To lift out or reflect from a background, as of a color
4. To receive perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc.; SYN. receive.
5. To give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift.
6. To get in addition, as an increase
7. To buy casually or spontaneously
8. To meet someone for sexual purposes
9. When the speed, level, or condition of something increases or improves, it picks up.
1. To remove from a position or an office.
2. To remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc.; or remove something abstract; SYN. take, take away.
3. To shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; SYN. transfer.
(Alternate spelling: seise).
(Homonym: seas).
1. To take by force.
2. To take hold of; also metaphorically; SYN. prehend, clutch.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: took, taken).
1. To get into one's hands, take physically; SYN. get hold of.
2. To bring into one's possession.
3. To take by force.
4. To obtain by winning.
5. To make use of or accept for some purpose; SYN. accept.
6. To carry out.
7. To buy, select.
8. To experience or feel; submit to.
9. To be seized in a specified way.
10. To ascertain or determine by measuring, computing, etc.; take a reading from a dial.
11. To travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route.
12. To get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort.
13. To interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; SYN. have.
ETYM as. treppan. Related to Trap a snare.
1. To catch in or as if in a trap; SYN. entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel.
2. To hold or catch as if in a trap.
3. To place in a confining or embarrassing position.
4. To hold fast or prevent from moving; SYN. pin, immobilize.
Light one-horse carriage with springs.