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Synonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋ
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Princeton's WordNet
catching(noun)
(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
Synonyms:
spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detectionAntonyms:
noninfectiousdetection, catching, espial, spying, spotting(noun)
the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
Synonyms:
detective work, spying, staining, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, espial, maculation, undercover work, spotting, contractingAntonyms:
noninfectiouscatching, contracting(adj)
becoming infected
"catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
Synonyms:
spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detectionAntonyms:
noninfectiouscatching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable(adj)
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
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inherited, genetic, communicable, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmittedAntonyms:
noninfectious
Dictionary of English Synonymes
catching(n.)
Synonyms:
seizure, capture, arrest, apprehensioncatching(a.)
Synonyms:
infectious, contagious, pestilential, pestiferous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
catching(a)
Synonyms:
contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilentialAntonyms:
noncontagious, incommunicablecatching(n)
Synonyms:
seizure, apprehension, arrest
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3635 | catch | |
#4006 | capture | |
#4059 | detection | |
#4344 | genetic | |
#6210 | transmitted | |
#6952 | contracting | |
#8058 | inherited | |
#10584 | sensing | |
#11121 | catching | |
#13591 | capturing | |
#14002 | detecting | |
#16503 | spying | |
#18402 | spotting | |
#18622 | staining | |
#22771 | ancestral | |
#23757 | hereditary | |
#24384 | familial | |
#26169 | contagious | |
#28206 | communicable | |
#70078 | transmissible | |
#100683 | sleuthing | |
#178828 | patrimonial | |
#238022 | transmittable | |
#281085 | espial |
How to use catching in a sentence?
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Silicon Valley is used to doing changes in their tech generations in months. The FAA and the big aviation world is used to doing technological refreshes and changes in decades, so the federal level is catching up, but it’s impossible to say how long it’s going to take because we don’t know the extent to which drones are going to come into the space.
We still have a lot of catching up to do in our digital business.
Tiffany is a textbook example of what is happening in retail, finally, they are catching up. They have missed opportunities in the past, but they understand that they have powerful brand and the brand was not expressed well in real life.
Compared with other industry players, our international business started late. But we're catching up.
Translations for catching
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- заразителенBulgarian
- CapturaPortuguese
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