Catch and Know

Catch

Catch verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: I didn't catch the point you were making about our nation's foreign policy

Know and catch are semantically related in understand topic. In some cases you can use "Know" instead a verb "Catch".

Nearby Words: catchy, catching, catcher

Know

Know verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: I think I know what you're trying to say

Catch and know are semantically related in understand topic. Sometimes you can use "Catch" instead a verb "Know".

Nearby Words: knowing, known

Common collocations

person catch person know person
girl catch girl know girl
man catch man know man
guy catch guy know guy
Other words: someone, time, way, anyone.

Both words in one sentence

  • Framing the Guilty Party The catch is, both robots were under a strain, and Baley didn't know enough about robots to know that the lying one will have a harder time because of it.
  • Series / Power Dramatic Irony: Ghost and Angela's relationship; she doesn't know he's the drug distributor she's trying to catch, he doesn't know she's the federal prosecutor who's after him.
  • Video Game / Persona 4 And if you're sharp enough, you can catch one final clue when the killer says something that implies that they know things they shouldn't know.
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