What does catching mean?
Definitions for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word catching.
Princeton's WordNet
catchingnoun
(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
detection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun
the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
catching, contractingadjective
becoming infected
"catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Wiktionary
catchingnoun
The action of the verb catch.
catchingadjective
contagious
Webster Dictionary
Catching
of Catch
Catchingadjective
infectious; contagious
Catchingadjective
captivating; alluring
Catchingnoun
the act of seizing or taking hold of
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of catching in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of catching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of catching in a Sentence
If it was up to me, I’d use the entire catching gear.
LG's competitor Samsung recently cut prices for its TV products in a bid to get ahead as Chinese television makers have been rapidly catching up.
When people get a catchphrase and you sense that it's catching on, you never want to hit it home and make the audience aware that you're aware that they're aware.
It’s called fishing, it’s not called catching, so I told him we may not catch anything, but he said it doesn’t matter, he said just being out there doing this was just as good.
We have a lot of agents quarantined right now, which adds to our problem, on top of agents who are sick with COVID, so we’re concerned about catching it ourselves, we’re concerned about our families and coworkers and it just seems everyone's turning a blind eye to it when we have a real situation down here.
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Translations for catching
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- заразителенBulgarian
- CapturaPortuguese
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