Catch vs. Trick — What's the Difference?

Intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped)

A cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone

Capture (a person or animal that tries or would try to escape)

A peculiar or characteristic habit or mannerism

(of an object) accidentally become entangled or trapped in something

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a sequence of cards forming a single round of play. One card is laid down by each player, the highest card being the winner.

Reach in time and board (a train, bus, or aircraft)

A prostitute's client.

Engage (a person's interest or imagination)

A sailor's turn at the helm, usually lasting for two or four hours.

Strike (someone) on a part of the body

Cunningly deceive or outwit

Contract (an illness) through infection or contagion

Sketch (a coat of arms) in outline, with the colours indicated by letters or signs.

Become ignited and start burning

Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion

An act of catching something, typically a ball.

Liable to fail; defective

A game in which a ball is thrown back and forth between two or more players.

An act or procedure intended to achieve an end by deceptive or fraudulent means.

A device for securing something such as a door, window, or box

A mischievous action; a prank

A hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation

A stupid, disgraceful, or childish act

An unevenness in a person's voice caused by emotion

A peculiar trait or characteristic; a mannerism

A round, typically one with words arranged to produce a humorous effect.

A peculiar event with unexpected, often deceptive results

To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement

A deceptive or illusive appearance; an illusion

To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp

A special skill; a knack

To stop (oneself) from doing an action

A convention or specialized skill peculiar to a particular field of activity

To capture or seize, especially after a chase

A feat of magic or legerdemain.

To capture or take by trapping, snaring, or some other means

A difficult, dexterous, or clever act designed to amuse

To take in and hold or contain

All the cards played in a single round, one from each player.

To discover or come upon suddenly, unexpectedly, or accidentally

One such round.

To become cognizant or aware of suddenly

A period or turn of duty, as at the helm of a ship.

To reach just in time; get so as to be carried by

(Slang) A prison term.

To overtake

An act of prostitution.

To cause to become hooked, entangled, or fastened

A prostitute's customer.

To hold up; delay

A session carried out by a prostitute with a client.

To make contact with; strike

(Slang) A robbery or theft.

To propel an object so that it hits (something)

To cheat or deceive or to practice trickery or deception.

To become subject to or to contract, as by exposure to a pathogen

Of, relating to, or involving tricks.

To become affected by or infused with

Capable of performing tricks

To suffer from the receipt of (criticism, for example)

Designed or made for doing a trick or tricks

To perceive suddenly or momentarily

Weak, defective, or liable to fail

To hear or listen to

Something designed to fool or swindle.

To grasp mentally; apprehend

A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.

To go to see (a performance, for example)

An entertaining difficult physical action.

To get (something required), usually quickly or for a brief period

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

To attract and fix; arrest

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

To reproduce or represent effectively

(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.

To deceive

A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(Baseball) To play (a game) as catcher.

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.

To become held, entangled, or fastened

(slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.

To act or move so as to hold or grab someone or something

(slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.

To be communicable or infectious; spread.

A term of abuse.

To become ignited

A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

(Baseball) To act as catcher.

(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.

The act of catching, especially the grabbing and holding of a thrown, kicked, or batted ball before it hits the ground.

A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

A game of throwing and catching a ball.

(transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

A quantity that is caught

(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).

Something that is perceived or noticed

To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.

(Informal) A person considered to be an attractive or admirable romantic partner.

Involving trickery or deception.

A tricky or previously unsuspected condition or drawback

Able to perform tricks.

A device for fastening something or for checking motion

Defective or unreliable.

A choking or stoppage of the breath or voice

Stylish or cool.

A snatch; a fragment

An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

(Music) A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.

(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.

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

A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.

(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.

The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.

(countable) Something which is captured or caught.

A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, - usually two hours.

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

A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

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

To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; - often followed by up, off, or out.

A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

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

A cunning or deceitful action or device;

(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.

A period of work or duty

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

An attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent;

A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.

A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

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

An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

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

Deceive somebody;

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

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

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

The first contact of an oar with the water.

A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

A slight remembrance; a trace.

(heading) To capture, overtake.

(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).

(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.

To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.

(transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.

(transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.

(transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).

(transitive) To travel by means of.

To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)

(heading) To seize hold of.

To grab, seize, take hold of.

(transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.

(transitive) To grip or entangle.

(intransitive) To be held back or impeded.

(intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.

(transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.

(intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).

(transitive) 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.

(heading) To intercept.

(transitive) 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.

(heading) To receive (by being in the way).

(transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).

(transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.

(transitive) To become infected by (an illness).

(intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.

To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).

(transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.

(transitive) To be hit by something.

(intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.

To get pregnant.

(heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.

(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.

To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).

(transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.

(heading) To seize attention, interest.

(transitive) To charm or entrance.

(transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

To get possession of; to attain.

To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

To attain possession.

To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

Act of seizing; a grasp.

That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

A slight remembrance; a trace.

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

A hidden drawback;

The quantity that was caught;

A person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect

Anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching);

A break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)

A restraint that checks the motion of something;

A fastener that fastens or locks a door or window

A cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth;

The act of catching an object with the hands;

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);

Discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state;

Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily;

Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;

Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

To hook or entangle;

Attract and fix;

Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping;

Reach in time;

Get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly;

Catch up with and possibly overtake;

Be struck or affected by;

Check oneself during an action;

Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers;

See or watch;

Cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled;

Detect a blunder or misstep;

Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

Contract;

Start burning;

Perceive by hearing;

Suffer from the receipt of;

Attract; cause to be enamored;

Apprehend and reproduce accurately;

Take in and retain;

Spread or be communicated;

Be the catcher;

Become aware of;

Delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned;