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CATCHING
catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
(adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
catching, contracting
(noun) becoming infected; “catching cold is sometimes unavoidable”; “the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic”
catching
(noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
(noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)
(informal) contagious
captivating; alluring; catchy
Hyponyms
• eye-catching
Noun
catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)
The action of the verb catch.
Verb
catching
present participle of catch
Source: Wiktionary
Catch"ing a.
1. Infections; contagious.
2. Captavating; alluring.
Catch"ing, n.
Definition: The act of seizing or taking hold of Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier.
CATCH
Catch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caught or Catched (; p. pr. & vb. n. Catching. Catched is rarely used.] Etym: [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See Capacious, and cf. Chase, Case a box.]
1. 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.
2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. "They pursued . . . and caught him." Judg. i. 6.
3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark xii. 13.
5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." Tennyson.
6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden.
8. To get possession of; to attain. Torment myself to catch the English throne. Shak.
9. 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.
10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited.
– to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. [Colloq.] -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." Dickens.
– To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.
Catch, v. i.
1. To attain possession. [Obs.] Have is have, however men do catch. Shak.
2. 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.
3. To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
4. To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate. Does the sedition catch from man to man Addison. To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be egger to get or use. "[To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the state." Addison.
– To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.
Catch, n.
1. Act of seizing; a grasp. Sir P. Sidney.
2. That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
3. 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. [Archaic] Addison. The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch, and wait advantages one againt another. T. Fuller.
4. That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.
5. Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.
6. pl.
Definition: Passing opportunities seized; snatches. It has been writ by catches with many intervals. Locke.
7. A slight remembrance; a trace. We retain a catch of those pretty stories. Glanvill.
8. (Mus.)
Definition: A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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