catching

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team (Freq. 1)
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
playing
2. the act of detecting something;
catching sight of something
• Syn:
detection, espial, spying, spotting
• Derivationally related forms:
spot (for: spotting), spy (for: spying), espy (for: espial), detect (for: detection)
• Hypernyms:
discovery, find, uncovering
3. becoming infected
- catching cold is sometimes unavoidable
- the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic
• Syn:
contracting
• Derivationally related forms:
contract (for: contracting)
• Hypernyms:
acquiring, getting

II - adjective

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
• Syn:
communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
• Similar to:
infectious
• Derivationally related forms:
transmit (for: transmissible), contagion (for: contagious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable, contracting, detection, espial, spying, spotting