Definition of Catching

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Definition of Catching
	Catching of Catch Infectious; contagious. Captivating; alluring. The act of seizing or taking hold of. Related Definitions: Act, Alluring, Captivating, Catch, Contagious, Hold, Infectious, Of, Or, Seizing, Taking, The

Catching Quotations

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.
Elton John

Some men like a dull life-they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it-it's often catching.
Hedy Lamarr

Catching Translations

catching in Dutch is besmettelijk, aanstekelijk, verpestend
catching in French is attrapant
catching in German is auffangend, fangend, nehmend
catching in Portuguese is travar
catching in Spanish is contagioso
catching in Swedish is vinnande, smittande

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