What does catching mean?
Definitions for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing
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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
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He wasn’t defending Rachael, he repeated over and over during the 15-minute segment in which he essentially did just that. If I had gone to that party, I asked him, what wouldIrepresent? He told me that 50 million people had attended a party like this, i maintained that attending such a party was not a good look, to which he responded, ‘Is it not a good look in 2018, or is it not a good look in 2021?’ As if things couldn’t have been considered racist in 2018. He called for sympathy for ‘this poor girl, Rachael.’ He said all this with a passion I had never seen him assert. And neither, I think, had America. We had only seen Chris Harrison perform as a host; this was like catching him with a hot mic.
Volvo Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson:
The emissions requirements are getting tougher everywhere. China is catching up very rapidly. The days when China had outdated technology are gone.
Any time you go outside and get near anybody else, it does increase your risk of catching or transmitting.
I don't think Formula One moves me up a gear, I'm already in a pretty good gear, last year obviously I was catching up( after the blank in Australia) and then here I didn't qualify on pole but did get the win.
It took about an hour for the snake catcher to coax it out. The snake was trying to bite the snake hook. The guy ended up catching it with his hand and just chucked it in a bag.
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- заразителенBulgarian
- CapturaPortuguese
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