Other Definitions
cat (enc)
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Cat| Noun | 1. | cat - feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcatsfelid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | | | 2. | cat - an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"adult male, man - an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" sod - an informal British term for a youth or man; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink" | | | 3. | cat - a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" | | | 4. | cat - 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. | cat - a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"whip - an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping | | | 6. | cat - a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm worktrademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product | | | 7. | cat - any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wildfelid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws Panthera pardus, leopard - large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots Panthera tigris, tiger - large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered liger - offspring of a male lion and a female tiger tiglon, tigon - offspring of a male tiger and a female lion Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetah - long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth - any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | | | 8. | 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 | | | Verb | 1. | cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails | | | 2. | cat - 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"barf, be sick, puke, regorge, retch, sick, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up, spue, disgorge, spew, chuck, honk, regurgitate, purge, cast | |
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