¹ catch verb

• to use your hands to stop and hold (an object that is moving through the air)
• to use your hands to grasp and hold onto (someone or something)
• to capture and not allow (a person, animal, or fish) to escape

² catch noun

• a hidden problem that makes something more complicated or difficult to do—usually singular
• the act of stopping a moving object (such as a ball) and holding it in your hands : the act of catching something
• a game in which two or more people throw and catch a ball