Catching vs Transmissible - What's the Difference?
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 Adjective
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Definition as Adjective
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Examples
- "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
- "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"