"overcatch" meaning in English

See overcatch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: overcatches [present, singular, third-person], overcatching [participle, present], overcaught [participle, past], overcaught [past]
Etymology: From over- + catch. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{prefix|en|over|catch}} over- + catch Head templates: {{en-verb|overcatches|overcatching|overcaught}} overcatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)
  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To overtake. Tags: UK, dialectal, transitive
    Sense id: en-overcatch-en-verb-O6aN64gr Categories (other): British English, English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 47 53
  2. To catch too many; to overfish.
    Sense id: en-overcatch-en-verb-rSx0~qEl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 47 53

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overcatch meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "catch"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + catch",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From over- + catch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overcatches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcatching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcaught",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcaught",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "overcatches",
        "2": "overcatching",
        "3": "overcaught"
      },
      "expansion": "overcatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overtake."
      ],
      "id": "en-overcatch-en-verb-O6aN64gr",
      "links": [
        [
          "overtake",
          "overtake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, UK dialectal) To overtake."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch too many; to overfish."
      ],
      "id": "en-overcatch-en-verb-rSx0~qEl",
      "links": [
        [
          "catch",
          "catch"
        ],
        [
          "overfish",
          "overfish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overcatch"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-",
    "English terms prefixed with over-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "catch"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + catch",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From over- + catch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overcatches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcatching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcaught",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcaught",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "overcatches",
        "2": "overcatching",
        "3": "overcaught"
      },
      "expansion": "overcatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overtake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overtake",
          "overtake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, UK dialectal) To overtake."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To catch too many; to overfish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "catch",
          "catch"
        ],
        [
          "overfish",
          "overfish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overcatch"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.