Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being caught.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being caught.
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- adjective That can be
caught .
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Examples
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Or risk being able to catch a train back to Cork after the concert, but the last one that’s catchable is at 7: 55pm, and between the gates opening at 3pm, opening bands, Bon Jovi themselves playing a 2.5 hour set last time, and having to get back to the train station, that doesn’t seem very damned likely.
*mrrrrgh* 2008
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Indeed, if everybody would help the Board of Health in its fight against the spread of the common "catchable" diseases, these diseases could soon be wiped out of existence.
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896
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While we can come up with a reasonable estimate of how many fly balls were "catchable" by an outfielder given the handedness of certain batters and pitchers, along with the flyball tendencies of the pitchers, it's just that: an estimate.
The Hardball Times Jeff Sackmann 2010
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A recent electro-shocking survey found around 4,600 "catchable" (10 inches or longer) trout per mile in sections of this river.
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A recent electro-shocking survey found around 4,600 "catchable" (10 inches or longer) trout per mile in sections of this river.
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A recent electro-shocking survey found around 4,600 "catchable" (10 inches or longer) trout per mile in sections of this river.
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DOW stocked the reservoir during the week of April 5th with "catchable" rainbows.
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A recent electro-shocking survey found around 4,600 "catchable" (10 inches or longer) trout per mile in sections of this river.
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Redskins game and he said every pass isn't always catchable which is true thats not a shot; I never heard make excuses about the drops either if you bring up the drops he can bring up he had the most td's also.
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Redskins game and he said every pass isn't always catchable which is true thats not a shot; I never heard make excuses about the drops either if you bring up the drops he can bring up he had the most td's also.
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