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Definition of 'cat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) cat
a small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or
F. catus.

2.  cat
any carnivore of the family Felidae, as the lion, tiger, leopard, or jaguar, and including numerous small wild cats.

3.  cat
Slang.

4.  cat
a person, esp. a man.

5.  cat
a devotee of jazz.

6.  cat
a spiteful woman.

7.  cat
a cat-o'-nine-tails.

8.  cat
a catboat.

9.  cat
a catfish.

10.  cat
a tackle used in hoisting an anchor to the cathead.

11. (v.t.) cat
to hoist (an anchor) and secure to a cathead.

12.  cat
Slang.

13.  cat
to seek sexual activity indiscriminately.

14.  CAT
computerized axial tomography.

Definition of 'cat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cat, true cat
feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats

2. (noun) guy, cat, hombre, bozo
an informal term for a youth or man
"a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"

3. (noun) cat
a spiteful woman gossip
"what a cat she is!"

4. (noun) kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea
the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
"in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"

5. (noun) cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
a whip with nine knotted cords
"British sailors feared the cat"

6. (noun) Caterpillar, cat
a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

7. (noun) big cat, cat
any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild

8. (verb) computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT
a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis

9. (verb) cat
beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails

10. (verb) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

Definition of 'cat'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) cat
an animal often kept as a pet
***We have two cats.

2. cat
a large wild animal, such as a lion or a tiger
***tigers and other big cats

3. cat
let the cat out of the bag
to tell a secret
Don't let the cat out of the bag!

Definition of 'cat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) cat
an animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat

2. (noun) cat
a strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade

3. (noun) cat
a strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship

4. (noun) cat
a double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed

5. (noun) cat
an old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc

6. (noun) cat
a cat o' nine tails. See below

7. (verb) cat
to bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor

Definitions of 'cat'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. cat
[from catenate via Unix cat(1)]

1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause (syn. blast).

2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also dd, BLT.

Among Unix fans, cat(1) is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files, and because it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with any sort of data.

Among Unix haters, cat(1) is considered the canonical example of bad user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name. It is far more often used to blast a file to standard output than to concatenate two files. The name cat for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr.

Of such oppositions are holy wars made.... See also UUOC.

Translation of 'cat'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a small, four-legged, fur-covered animal often kept as a pet a Siamese cat.
Afrikaans: kat	Arabic: قِط	Bulgarian: котка
Brazilian: gato	Czech: kočka	German: die Katze
Danish: kat	Greek: γάτα	Spanish: gato
Estonian: kass	Farsi: گربه	Finnish: kissa
French: chat, chatte	Hebrew: חָתוּל	Hindi: बिल्ली
Croatian: mačka	Hungarian: macska	Indonesian: kucing
Icelandic: köttur	Italian: gatto	Japanese: 猫
Korean: 고양이	Lithuanian: katė, katinas	Latvian: kaķis
Malay: kucing	Dutch: kat	Norwegian: katt
Polish: kot	Persian: گربه	Pashto: پیشو
Portuguese: gato	Romanian: pisică	Russian: кошка
Slovak: mačka	Slovenian: maček, mačka	Serbian: mačka
Swedish: katt	Thai: แมว	Turkish: kedi
Taiwanese: 貓	Ukrainian: кіт, кішка	Urdu: بلی
Vietnamese: con mèo	Chinese: 猫
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