The difference between Catch and Hook

When used as nouns, catch means the act of seizing or capturing, whereas hook means a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

When used as verbs, catch means to capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape), whereas hook means to attach a hook to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Catch and Hook

  1. Catch as a noun (countable):

    The act of seizing or capturing.

    Examples:

    "The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work."

  2. Catch as a noun (countable):

    The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

    Examples:

    "The player made an impressive catch."

    "Nice catch!"

  3. Catch as a noun (countable):

    The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

    Examples:

    "Good catch. I never would have remembered that."

  4. Catch as a noun (uncountable):

    The game of catching a ball.

    Examples:

    "The kids love to play catch."

  5. Catch as a noun (countable):

    A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.

    Examples:

    "Did you see his latest catch?"

    "He's a good catch."

  6. Catch as a noun (countable):

    Something which is captured or caught.

    Examples:

    "The fishermen took pictures of their catch."

    "The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish."

  7. Catch as a noun (countable):

    A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

    Examples:

    "She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight."

  8. Catch as a noun (countable):

    A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

    Examples:

    "There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name."

  9. Catch as a noun (countable, sometimes, _, noun adjunct):

    A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

    Examples:

    "It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?"

    "Be careful, that's a catch question."

  10. Catch as a noun (countable):

    A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.

    Examples:

    "I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side."

  11. Catch as a noun (countable):

    A fragment of music or poetry.

  12. Catch as a noun (obsolete):

    A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.

  13. Catch as a noun (countable, agriculture):

    A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.

  14. Catch as a noun (obsolete):

    A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.

  15. Catch as a noun (countable, music):

    A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.

  16. Catch as a noun (countable, music):

    The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.

  17. Catch as a noun (countable, cricket, baseball):

    The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

  18. Catch as a noun (countable, cricket):

    A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.

  19. Catch as a noun (countable, rowing):

    The first contact of an oar with the water.

  20. Catch as a noun (countable, phonetics):

    A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.

  21. Catch as a noun:

    Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

  22. Catch as a noun:

    A slight remembrance; a trace.

  1. Catch as a verb:

    To capture, overtake. To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. To marry or enter into a similar relationship with. To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). To travel by means of. To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)

    Examples:

    "I hope I catch a fish.  nowrap He ran but we caught him at the exit.  nowrap The police caught the robber at a nearby casino."

    "If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat."

    "If you leave now you might catch him.  nowrap I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane."

    "He was caught on video robbing the bank.  nowrap He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit."

    "'catch the bus"

  2. Catch as a verb:

    To seize hold of. To grab, seize, take hold of. To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. To grip or entangle. To be held back or impeded. To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process. To have something be held back or impeded. To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to. To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. To germinate and set down roots. To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore. To handle an exception.

    Examples:

    "I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me."

    "I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath.  nowrap I caught some Z's on the train."

    "My leg was caught in a tree-root."

    "Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.  nowrap His voice caught when he came to his father's name."

    "Push it in until it catches.  nowrap The engine finally caught and roared to life."

    "I caught my heel on the threshold."

    "He caught at the railing as he fell."

    "The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn."

    "The seeds caught and grew."

    "When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file."

  3. Catch as a verb:

    To intercept. To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.

    Examples:

    "I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.  nowrap Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth."

    "Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson."

    "He caught the last three innings."

  4. Catch as a verb:

    To receive (by being in the way). To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. To be infected by (an illness). To spread by infection or similar means. To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection. To be hit by something. To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish. To get pregnant.

    Examples:

    "You're going to catch a beating if they find out."

    "The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.  nowrap Her hair was caught by the light breeze."

    "Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week."

    "The bucket catches water from the downspout.  nowrap The trees caught quickly in the dry wind."

    "She finally caught the mood of the occasion."

    "He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year."

    "Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do."

  5. Catch as a verb:

    To take in with one's senses or intellect. To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.

    Examples:

    "Did you catch his name?  nowrap Did you catch the way she looked at him?"

    "I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie."

    "You've really caught his determination in this sketch."

  6. Catch as a verb:

    To seize attention, interest. To charm or entrance. To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).

    Examples:

    "He managed to catch her attention.  nowrap The enormous scarf did catch my eye."

  7. Catch as a verb:

    To obtain or experience

  1. Hook as a noun:

    a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment

  2. Hook as a noun:

    a fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing

  3. Hook as a noun:

    any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook

  4. Hook as a noun (informal):

    a ship's anchor

  5. Hook as a noun:

    the curved needle used in the art of crochet

  6. Hook as a noun:

    the part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns

  7. Hook as a noun:

    a loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j

  8. Hook as a noun (music):

    a catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song

    Examples:

    "The song's hook snared me."

  9. Hook as a noun (authorship):

    a brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play

  10. Hook as a noun (authorship):

    a gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention

  11. Hook as a noun:

    a tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely

  12. Hook as a noun (informal):

    removal or expulsion from a group or activity

    Examples:

    "He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook."

  13. Hook as a noun (cricket):

    a type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height

  14. Hook as a noun (baseball):

    a curveball

    Examples:

    "He threw a hook in the dirt."

  15. Hook as a noun (software):

    a feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily

    Examples:

    "We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward and forward compatible to future versions of the standard."

  16. Hook as a noun (golf):

    a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade

  17. Hook as a noun (basketball):

    a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.

  18. Hook as a noun (boxing):

    a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc

    Examples:

    "The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent."

  19. Hook as a noun (slang):

    A jack (the playing card)

  20. Hook as a noun (typography):

    a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark: ỏ.

  21. Hook as a noun (typography, rare):

    a .

  22. Hook as a noun ([[Scrabble]]):

    an instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word

  23. Hook as a noun (bowling):

    a ball that is rolled in a curved line

  24. Hook as a noun (bridge, slang):

    a finesse

  25. Hook as a noun:

    a snare; a trap

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  26. Hook as a noun:

    a field sown two years in succession

  27. Hook as a noun (in the plural):

    the projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones

  28. Hook as a noun (geography):

    a spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey

  1. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To attach a hook to.

    Examples:

    "'Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away."

  2. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To catch with a hook .

    Examples:

    "He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water."

  3. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

  4. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

    Examples:

    "He hooked his fingers through his belt loops."

  5. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.

    Examples:

    "She's only here to try to hook a husband."

    "A free trial is a good way to hook customers."

  6. Hook as a verb (UK, US, slang, archaic):

    To steal.

  7. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To connect (hook into, hook together).

    Examples:

    "If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network."

  8. Hook as a verb (usually, in passive):

    To make addicted; to captivate.

    Examples:

    "He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth."

    "I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked."

  9. Hook as a verb (cricket, golf):

    To play a hook shot.

  10. Hook as a verb (rugby):

    To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

  11. Hook as a verb (field hockey, ice hockey):

    To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

    Examples:

    "The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty."

  12. Hook as a verb (soccer):

    To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

  13. Hook as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To engage in prostitution.

    Examples:

    "I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window."

  14. Hook as a verb (Scrabble):

    To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

  15. Hook as a verb (bridge, slang):

    To finesse.

  16. Hook as a verb (transitive):

    To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

  17. Hook as a verb (intransitive):

    To move or go with a sudden turn.

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