"catch a wave" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches a wave",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching a wave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a wave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a wave",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> a wave"
      },
      "expansion": "catch a wave (third-person singular simple present catches a wave, present participle catching a wave, simple past and past participle caught a wave)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ride the wave"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Surfing",
          "orig": "en:Surfing",
          "parents": [
            "Water sports",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 29, Nadya Labi, “Around the World in a Balloon in 20 Days”, in Time, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 10, Ondine Cohane, “A Small Child, a Big Board, on Oahu’s North Shore”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "As anyone who has ever caught a wave on her own knows, surfing is a profound confidence booster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mount one's surfboard at a distance from shore, turn it toward land, and control it for a successful, satisfying ride on inrushing water."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_a_wave-en-verb-00deougI",
      "links": [
        [
          "surfing",
          "surfing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "surfboard",
          "surfboard"
        ],
        [
          "inrushing",
          "inrushing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surfing) To mount one's surfboard at a distance from shore, turn it toward land, and control it for a successful, satisfying ride on inrushing water."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "surfing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 January 23, David Cay Johnston, “A Man Who Repaid His Debts”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "The size of his fortune, he said, revealed only that \"we caught a wave. We were lucky. We had more luck than we deserved.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 8, Simon Briggs, “Andy Murray brushed aside by increasingly dominant Novak Djokovic in Paris Masters final”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "He did have one brief spell in the second set when he seemed to catch a wave, pounding his backhand and winning 11 of 14 points.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity; to experience a sudden increase in energy or luck."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_a_wave-en-verb-8jygDbKk",
      "links": [
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "opportunity",
          "opportunity"
        ],
        [
          "sudden",
          "sudden"
        ],
        [
          "increase",
          "increase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity; to experience a sudden increase in energy or luck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch a wave"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches a wave",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching a wave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a wave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a wave",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> a wave"
      },
      "expansion": "catch a wave (third-person singular simple present catches a wave, present participle catching a wave, simple past and past participle caught a wave)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ride the wave"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Surfing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 29, Nadya Labi, “Around the World in a Balloon in 20 Days”, in Time, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 10, Ondine Cohane, “A Small Child, a Big Board, on Oahu’s North Shore”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "As anyone who has ever caught a wave on her own knows, surfing is a profound confidence booster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mount one's surfboard at a distance from shore, turn it toward land, and control it for a successful, satisfying ride on inrushing water."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surfing",
          "surfing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "surfboard",
          "surfboard"
        ],
        [
          "inrushing",
          "inrushing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surfing) To mount one's surfboard at a distance from shore, turn it toward land, and control it for a successful, satisfying ride on inrushing water."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "surfing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 January 23, David Cay Johnston, “A Man Who Repaid His Debts”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "The size of his fortune, he said, revealed only that \"we caught a wave. We were lucky. We had more luck than we deserved.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 8, Simon Briggs, “Andy Murray brushed aside by increasingly dominant Novak Djokovic in Paris Masters final”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2020-04-04",
          "text": "He did have one brief spell in the second set when he seemed to catch a wave, pounding his backhand and winning 11 of 14 points.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity; to experience a sudden increase in energy or luck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "opportunity",
          "opportunity"
        ],
        [
          "sudden",
          "sudden"
        ],
        [
          "increase",
          "increase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity; to experience a sudden increase in energy or luck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch a wave"
}