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catching 音标拼音: [k'ætʃɪŋ] a. 易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的 易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的 catching adj 1: ( of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [ synonym: { catching}, { communicable}, { contagious}, { contractable}, { transmissible}, { transmittable}] n 1: ( baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team 2: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something [ synonym: { detection}, { catching}, { espial}, { spying}, { spotting}] 3: becoming infected; " catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; " the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic" [ synonym: { catching}, { contracting}] Catch \ Catch\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Caught} or { 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.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. " They pursued . . . and caught him." -- Judg. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. " To catch him in his words". -- Mark xii. 13. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. " Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm. [ 1913 Webster] The soothing arts that catch the fair. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To get possession of; to attain. [ 1913 Webster] Torment myself to catch the English throne. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 9. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. [ 1913 Webster] 11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Catching \ Catch" ing\ a. 1. Infectious; contagious. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Captivating; alluring. [ 1913 Webster]
Catching \ Catch" ing\, n. The act of seizing or taking hold of. [ 1913 Webster] { Catching bargain} ( Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. -- Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster] 97 Moby Thesaurus words for " catching": alluring, annexational, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come- hither, communicable, confiscatory, contagious, coquettish, deadly, deprivative, destructive, enchanting, endemic, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, exciting, exotic, expropriatory, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, hypnotic, infectious, infective, inoculable, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, mesmeric, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mouth- watering, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, piquant, poisonous, prepossessing, privative, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, sporadic, spreading, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thievish, tickling, titillating, titillative, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transmissible, transmittable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, winning, winsome, witching, zymotic
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