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Catch Cold

Definition: Catch Cold

Catch Cold

Verb

1. Come down with a cold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Catch Cold

English words defined with "catch cold": cold. (references)
Specialty definitions using "catch cold": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Catch Cold

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Leave something on me--I might catch cold. (Mildred Pierce; writing credit: James M. Cain; Ranald MacDougall)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Catch Cold

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  catch cold

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Catch Cold

Language Translations for "catch cold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

marr një rrufë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نزلة برد (running cold), ‏أصاب بالبرد أو بالنزلة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

настивам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

著涼 , 傷風 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

nachladit se (catch a chill, get a chill, take cold). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vilustua, kylmettyä. (various references)

   

French

  

prendre froid (catch a cold), attraper un rhume (catch a cold). (various references)

   

German

  

sich erkälten (catch a cold, get a cold, to catch a cold, to catch cold). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ת זל (become liquid), ל"צט ן (cool). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megfázik (make smb. ill from cold, to catch a chill, to catch a cold, to catch cold, to get a cold, to get cold, to take cold). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchcay oldcay

   

Portuguese

  

resfriar se. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se rãci (chill, cool, ice), rãci (catch a chill, chill, cool, damp, quench, refrigerate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

простудиться (catch a chill, take cold). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prehladiti se. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfriarse (chill, cool down, fall away, fall off, get cold). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förkyla sig (catch a cold), förkyla. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soğuk almak (be ill with a cold, catch a chill, catch a cold), nezle olmak (catch a cold, have the snuffles). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

простудитися (catch a cold, get cold). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Catch Cold

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-d-h-l-o-t"

-3 letters: chalot, coccal.

-4 letters: acold, ahold, altho, catch, clach, cloth, coach, coact, dotal, latch, loach, loath, lotah, octad, octal.

-5 letters: alto, calo, chad, chao, chat, clad, clod, clot, coal, coat, coca, coda, cola, cold, colt, dahl, dato, dhal, doat, dolt, doth, halo, halt, hold, holt, lath, load, loca, loch, lota, loth, oath, tach, taco.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Catch Cold


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 63 68      43 6F 6C 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101100 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#108 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0063 0068      0043 006F 006C 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767866974237817870

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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