catcher
pronunciation
How to pronounce catcher in British English:
UK [ˈkætʃə(r)]
How to pronounce catcher in American English:
US [ˈkætʃɚ, ˈkɛtʃ-]
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- Noun:
- (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws
Word Origin
- catcher (n.)
- "one who catches," in any sense, mid-14c., agent noun from catch (v.).
Antonym
Example
- 1. The quake catcher network is far less sensitive .
- 2. Security researcher chris paget ( not pictured ) demonstrated his home-brewed imsi catcher in 2010 , with 3-foot-long rf directional antenna to amplify its signal in the large defcon conference room .
- 3. Sheskey invited cochran and her team because she thought getting involved in the quake catcher network would give them a real understanding of how earthquakes happened .
- 4. Catcher ariel pestano of cuba discusses tactics with pitcher yunieski maya at the mound as cuba play japan in the second round of the 2009 world baseball classic .
- 5. Before she left , cochran installed a sensor and the quake catcher program on a computer in the corner of the classroom .