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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
catching
adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
[syn: catching, communicable, contagious,
contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
n 1: (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball
team
2: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
[syn: detection, catching, espial, spying,
spotting]
3: becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable";
"the contracting of a serious illness can be financially
catastrophic" [syn: catching, contracting]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Catch \Catch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caughtor Catched; p. pr.
& vb. n. Catching. Catched is rarely used.] [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.]
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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.
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2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
"They pursued . . . and caught him." --Judg. i. 6.
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3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as,
to catch a bird or fish.
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4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his
words". --Mark xii. 13.
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5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to
catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the
issue." --Tennyson.
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6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the
adjoining building.
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7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
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The soothing arts that catch the fair. --Dryden.
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8. To get possession of; to attain.
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Torment myself to catch the English throne. --Shak.
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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.
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10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to
catch one in the act of stealing.
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11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
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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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Catching \Catch"ing\ a.
1. Infectious; contagious.
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2. Captivating; alluring.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Catching \Catch"ing\, n.
The act of seizing or taking hold of.
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Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir
expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an
inadequate price. --Bouvier.
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Thesaurus Results for Catching:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
alluring, annexational, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, communicable, confiscatory, contagious, coquettish, deadly, deprivative, destructive, enchanting, endemic, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, exciting, exotic, expropriatory, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, hypnotic, infectious, infective, inoculable, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, mesmeric, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mouth-watering, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, piquant, poisonous, prepossessing, privative, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, sporadic, spreading, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thievish, tickling, titillating, titillative, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transmissible, transmittable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, winning, winsome, witching, zymotic |
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Common Misspellings > |
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