Definition as Noun

• (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team
• becoming infected
• the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

Definition as Noun

Definition as Adjective

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Definition as Adjective

• easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

• contracting

• detection, espial, spying, spotting

• catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

• "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

• "a contagious grin"

• Catching vs communicable
• Catching vs contagious
• Catching vs contractable
• Catching vs transmissible
• Catching vs transmittable
• Catching vs contracting
• Catching vs detection
• Catching vs espial
• Catching vs spying
• Catching vs spotting
• Catching vs catching

• Contagious vs communicable
• Contagious vs contagious
• Contagious vs contractable
• Contagious vs transmissible
• Contagious vs transmittable
• Contagious vs contracting
• Contagious vs detection
• Contagious vs espial
• Contagious vs spying
• Contagious vs spotting
• Contagious vs catching