catching
ka ching
- n (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
- n the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- n becoming infected
catching cold is sometimes unavoidable - v discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- v perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- v reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- v take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- v succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- v to hook or entangle
- v attract and fix
- v capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- v reach in time
- v get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- v catch up with and possibly overtake
- v be struck or affected by
- v check oneself during an action
- v hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- v see or watch
- v cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- v detect a blunder or misstep
- v grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- v contract
- v start burning
- v perceive by hearing
- v suffer from the receipt of
- v attract; cause to be enamored
- v apprehend and reproduce accurately
- v take in and retain
- v spread or be communicated
- v be the catcher
Who is catching? - v become aware of
- v delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- s (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- Just back from Spring Break and catching up with what I missed, including this story in yesterday's Washington Post recounting how the White House failed to see the warning signs .
- Civilians often assume the diseases are catching, or venereal.
- The artist's problem, as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner saw it, was "how to arrest in a few bold strokes a movement, catching the passing moment.