catcher

See also: Catcher and cátcher

English

Etymology

catch +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætʃ.ə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkætʃ.ɚ/, /ˈkɛtʃ.ɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ), -ɛtʃə(ɹ)

Noun

catcher (plural catchers)

1. Someone or something that catches.
2. (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher
3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.

Coordinate terms

• (baseball player): infielder, outfielder, pitcher

Derived terms

• eye-catcher, eyecatcher

Translations

that which catches

• Dutch: vanger (nl) m
• Finnish: sieppaaja (fi), pyydystäjä (fi), pyytäjä (fi)
• French: attrapeur (fr) m
• German: Fänger (de) m
• Greek: πιάστης (el) m (piástis)
• Italian: collettore (it) m

• Lithuanian: gaudytojas
• Portuguese: coletor (pt) m
• Russian: ула́вливатель (ru) m (ulávlivatelʹ)
• Spanish: colector (es) m
• Swedish: fångare (sv) c

baseball player who receives pitches

• Catalan: receptor (ca) m, receptora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕手 (zh) (bǔshǒu)

• Dutch: catcher (nl) m, f, achtervanger m
• Finnish: sieppari (fi)
• French: receveur (fr) m, receveuse (fr) f
• German: Catcher (de) m, Catcherin f, Fänger (de) m, Fängerin f

• Japanese: キャッチャー (ja) (kyatchā), 捕手 (ja) (ほしゅ, hoshu)
• Korean: 캐처 (kaecheo), 포수 (ko) (posu) (捕手 (ko))
• Portuguese: receptor (pt) m
• Russian: кэ́тчер m (kɛ́tčer)
• Spanish: receptor (es) m
• Swedish: catcher (sv) c, fångare (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagasalo

Anagrams

• recatch

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French

Verb

catcher

1. to wrestle
2. (Quebec) to catch
3. (Quebec) to catch, get (understand fully)

Conjugation

Conjugation of catcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		catchant /kat.ʃɑ̃/
past participle		catché /kat.ʃe/
infinitive
simple		catcher
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		catchant /kat.ʃɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	catche /katʃ/	catches /katʃ/	catche /katʃ/	catchons /kat.ʃɔ̃/	catchez /kat.ʃe/	catchent /katʃ/
	imperfect	catchais /kat.ʃɛ/	catchais /kat.ʃɛ/	catchait /kat.ʃɛ/	catchions /kat.ʃjɔ̃/	catchiez /kat.ʃje/	catchaient /kat.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	catchai /kat.ʃe/	catchas /kat.ʃa/	catcha /kat.ʃa/	catchâmes /kat.ʃam/	catchâtes /kat.ʃat/	catchèrent /kat.ʃɛʁ/
	future	catcherai /kat.ʃə.ʁe/	catcheras /kat.ʃə.ʁa/	catchera /kat.ʃə.ʁa/	catcherons /kat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	catcherez /kat.ʃə.ʁe/	catcheront /kat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	catcherais /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherais /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherait /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	catcherions /kat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	catcheriez /kat.ʃə.ʁje/	catcheraient /kat.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	catche /katʃ/	catches /katʃ/	catche /katʃ/	catchions /kat.ʃjɔ̃/	catchiez /kat.ʃje/	catchent /katʃ/
	imperfect2	catchasse /kat.ʃas/	catchasses /kat.ʃas/	catchât /kat.ʃa/	catchassions /kat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	catchassiez /kat.ʃa.sje/	catchassent /kat.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	catche /katʃ/	—	catchons /kat.ʃɔ̃/	catchez /kat.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Anagrams

• créchât

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Spanish

Noun

catcher m (plural catchers)

1. (baseball) catcher