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catch

English round, or simple perpetual canon, for three or more unaccompanied voices. Catches were sung by men as a popular pastime in the 16th–19th centuries. Catch texts were often humorous or ribald, and in some instances a pause in the melody in one voice was filled in by the notes and text of another, creating a pun or change of meaning, especially in the late-17th-century Restoration period.

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catch

1. a game in which a ball is thrown from one player to another

2. Cricket the catching of a ball struck by a batsman before it touches the ground, resulting in him being out

3. Music a type of round popular in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, having a humorous text that is often indecent or bawdy and hard to articulate

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catch [kach]

(design engineering)

A device used for fastening a door or gate and usually operated manually from only one side, for example, a latch.