单词 | catch sound |
释义 | > as lemmascatch sound catch sound n. the sound of a word, phrase, etc., which captures or engages attention. ΚΠ 1841 New-Eng. Weekly Rev. 9 Oct. It is the catch-sound, and not the meaning of the word ‘productive’, in the title of his Grammar, which ensures it a productive publication to the author. 1874 W. P. Roberts Law & God xi. 127 It is not the catch-sound of a verse which has authority, but the divine spirit of God's revelation. 1986 New Scholar 10 148 Besides innumerable cases of polysemia, elements like can and kan may appear as morphemes without meaning, that is, as catch sounds. < as lemmas |
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