What is "catching" in English? Definition and Explanations

Updated: 25-10-2024 by Wikilanguages.net
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What does catching mean in English? Meaning of catching definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "catching" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "catching": (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

Noun

  • Meaning: (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
  • Synonyms: catching
  • Hypernyms: playing
  • Meaning of "catching": (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
  • Synonyms: catching communicable contagious contractable transmissible transmittable
  • Similar: infectious
  • Meaning of "catching": the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
  • Synonyms: catching detection espial spotting spying
  • Hypernyms: discovery find uncovering
  • Meaning of "catching": becoming infected

    Noun

  • Meaning: becoming infected
  • Example: catching cold is sometimes unavoidable the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic
  • Synonyms: catching contracting
  • Hypernyms: acquiring getting
  • Adjective: Present participle of catch.
  • Synonyms:

    endemic, taking, pandemic, epidemic, communicable, dangerous, infectious, pestiferous, transferable, pestilential, epizootic, infective, miasmatic, transmittable,

    Antonyms:

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    catching in English: catching
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