cat
IPA: kˈæt
noun
- An animal of the family Felidae:
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- A person:
- (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman.
- An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- (slang) A person (usually male).
- (slang) A prostitute.
- (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
- (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball.
- (archaic, countable) The trap in that game.
- (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- Abbreviation of caterpillar.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- A diminutive of the female given names Catherine or Caitlin.
- (slang) A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of the Caterpillar brand.
- (informal) A Catalina flying boat.
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Counter Assault Team
- Citizens Area Transit
- Canadian Achievement Tests
- Cambridge Antibody Technology
- (chiefly nautical) Short for cat-o'-nine-tails. [(nautical) A scourge (multi-tail whip) having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment.]
- Abbreviation of catapult. [A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.]
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter. [(automotive) A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.]
- Abbreviation of catamaran. [A twin-hulled ship or boat.]
- Abbreviation of category. [A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.]
- Abbreviation of catfish. [Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.]
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”. [(medicine) A medical imaging process involving the use of multiple X-ray images to produce a three dimensional image of internal organs.]
- Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight. [A Berber language spoken by some three million people in central Morocco.]
- Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
- Acronym of common admission test.
- Acronym of civil air transport.
- Acronym of clear-air turbulence. [The erratic movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues, especially such movement that causes unexpected turbulence to an aircraft.]
- (medicine) Acronym of computed axial tomography. [(medicine) A medical imaging process involving the use of multiple X-ray images to produce a three dimensional image of internal organs.]
- Acronym of career aptitude test.
- Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
- Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
- Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
- Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
- Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
- Acronym of coital alignment technique.
- Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
- Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
- Acronym of crisis assessment team.
- Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (slang) To vomit.
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
adjective
- (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
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Examples of "cat" in Sentences
- The dog outruns the cat.
- The cat is above the mouse.
- The cat ran away from the dog.
- The dog was very angry at the cat.
- The mouse punches the cat in the eye.
- It is the comparison of cats and dogs.
- The dogs run outside and tackle the cat.
- The cat and the dog were crossing the river.
- A cat lunged to a dog and they got into a fight.
- A family dog and cat perished in an Overland Park.