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Princeton's WordNet

  1. catch upverb

    reach the point where one should be after a delay

    "I caught up on my homework"

  2. catch upverb

    learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened

    "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"

Wiktionary

  1. catch upnoun

    An act of catching up or attempting to catch up.

  2. catch upnoun

    An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up.

  3. catch upverb

    To pick up suddenly.

  4. catch upverb

    To entangle.

  5. catch upverb

    To provide with news.

  6. catch upverb

    To be reaching something that had been ahead

  7. catch upverb

    To compensate for or make up a deficiency.

  8. catch upverb

    To get news

Wikipedia

  1. Catch Up

    Catch Up was a children's television series which aired on CBC Television in Canada during the 1978–1979 season.

ChatGPT

  1. catch up

    "Catch up" typically refers to the act of reaching or trying to reach the same level or status as someone or something else, especially after a period of being behind. It can involve acquiring knowledge or skills you missed or fell behind on, often through no fault of your own. It can also refer to engage in a social conversation or meeting to update each other on personal life or events.

Wikidata

  1. Catch Up

    Catch Up was a children's television series which aired on CBC Television in Canada during the 1978-1979 season. Although the series did not continue past its first year, its hosts would proceed to careers of international scope: ⁕Margot Pinvidic continued acting on various movie and television productions. ⁕Catch Up's music segments were performed by the Christopher Ward Band, whose namesake would become one of MuchMusic's first VJs. Ward also became a songwriter for Alannah Myles and other prominent artists.

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    Song lyrics by catch up -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by catch up on the Lyrics.com website.

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    Read the full text of the Catch up poem by Frank Anthony Cimino jr on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of catch up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of catch up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of catch up in a Sentence

  1. Chuangshi Wang:

    Napping could reflect underlying ill-health( fatigue, tiredness) eventually leading to morbidity and mortality, could be a proxy for sleep deprivation, as a compensatory catch-up mechanism, or could also be a symptom of circadian misalignment.

  2. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov:

    We do not aim to divide the European Union. On the contrary, we aim to help eastern Europe and the Balkans which are lagging behind to catch up.

  3. Daren Blomquist:

    Those markets with the biggest disconnect between price growth and wage growth during the last two years are most likely to see plateauing home prices in 2015 until wages catch up.

  4. Andreas Schleicher:

    Turkey still has a long way to catch up with the industrialized world in education. But if you just look at the amount of change that has happened, both on quality and equity, that's still remarkable.

  5. Peter Neffenger:

    We, quite frankly, simply put, did not have enough checkpoint lanes open when they arrived. And once behind, it takes a long time to catch up.


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