Crossword clues for catching
catching
- See or watch
- Check oneself during an action
- Get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- Reach in time
- Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- Attract and fix
- To hook or entangle
- Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- Becoming infected
- Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- Contagious
- Fielder's skill easily picked up
- Like measles, mumps, etc
- Delay or hold up
- Grasp with the mind
- Contract
- Start burning
- Perceive by hearing
- Suffer from the receipt of
- Attract
- Cause to be enamored
- Apprehend and reproduce accurately
- Detect a blunder or misstep
- Become aware of
- Be struck or affected by
- Prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- Spread or be communicated
- Cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catching \Catch"ing\, n. The act of seizing or taking hold of.
Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir
expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an
inadequate price.
--Bouvier.
Catch \Catch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caughtor Catched; p. pr. & vb. n. Catching. Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See Capacious, and cf. Chase, Case a box.]
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. ``They pursued . . . and caught him.''
--Judg. i. 6.To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
Hence: To insnare; to entangle. ``To catch him in his words''.
--Mark xii. 13.To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. ``Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue.''
--Tennyson.To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
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To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
The soothing arts that catch the fair.
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To get possession of; to attain.
Torment myself to catch the English throne.
--Shak. To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
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To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited.
to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. [Colloq.]
To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] ``You catch me up so very short.''
--Dickens.To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.
Catching \Catch"ing\ a.
Infectious; contagious.
Captivating; alluring.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, of diseases, present participle adjective from catch (v.). From 1650s as "captivating." Related: Catchingly.
Wiktionary
1 (context informal English) contagious 2 captivating; alluring n. The action of the verb catch. v
(present participle of catch English)
WordNet
adj. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
n. (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
the act of detecting something; catching sight of something [syn: detection, espial, spying, spotting]
becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic" [syn: contracting]
Wikipedia
Catching may refer to:
- Dave Catching
- Lapanka or Rafle
Usage examples of "catching".
She did not want to harm the bird, but the thing had already bloodied her and would not back off, so she conjured a minor Venca spell, catching the bird as it plummeted down, insensate.
On wearied horses, the Aberdeen clannsmen would have their work cut out catching up with all the raiders.
The box of condoms Jacob had presented Simon with the day after catching Amanda sleeping in his arms winked up at him, but it was the antistatic straps he had stashed there at some point that interested him at the moment.
They stayed there most of the day, catching up on food and sleep and being fitted with Argentian clothing.
Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.
As she ate, she asked questions about what was happening in Boot and Backland, catching up on things that had happened in the twenty years since she left.
Those going on to Basrah were separated from those who were catching a connecting plane to Baghdad.
I ducked my behatted head, but not before catching another snatch of my reflection in one of the looking-glasses: a black-haired bravo with his buttons glinting and his hat tipped at a rakish angle.
Wagner and Bauer at the Bofors gun, shattering the wheelhouse windows, catching Langsdorff in the back, driving him headfirst through the door.
The stubble of recently cut clover and bromegrass prickled against her bare ankles as she slid out of the truck, the light breeze catching in her hair and picking up the sweet scent of the thistle patch in the ditch along the road.
Samson stood in the middle of the breach, ignoring the gunfire from the enemy on the ground, and cut loose with his Bushmaster, catching the troopers on the ladders in a hail of lead, blasting them from the ladders and checking the assault.
A second Pom swooped in out of the murk, his wake catching Carmen and starting her spinning.
DAVID HAGBERG Next, he telephoned Phil Carrara at CIA headquarters, catching the DDO just as he was heading upstairs to lunch with Lawrence Danielle.
And since seeing that I have imagined Jacques Cartier in 1535 looking off to the southeast, when his disappointed vision of the west had tired his eyes, and catching first sight of these dim indentations of his sky, the White Mountains, which the colonists from England did not see until a century later and then only from their ocean side.
But when it came to catching cheaters, the most important thing in the room was a computer program called Creep File.