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Catching vs Hatching - What's the difference?

catching | hatching |

As verbs the difference between catching and hatching

is that catching is while hatching is .

As nouns the difference between catching and hatching

is that catching is the action of the verb catch while hatching is a method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

As an adjective catching

is (informal) contagious.

catching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb catch.
  • * 1819 , Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary
    • Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) contagious
  • captivating; alluring

    • hatching

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  • A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
    • We got a good hatching from the Swallowtail eggs.
  • The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

    • Verb

    (head)