pet
IPA: pˈɛt
noun
- An animal kept as a companion.
- (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Ireland, Tyneside) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- Abbreviation of petition. [A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.]
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of polyethylene terephthalate. [A thermoplastic resin of the polyester family used particularly in the manufacture of plastic bottles (PET) and fabrics (Terylene).]
- (countable, medicine) Acronym of positron emission tomography. [(medicine) A medical imaging technique which detects the gamma rays produced by positrons emitted from injected radionuclides.]
- (countable, genetics) Acronym of paired-end tag. [(genetics) Any of the short sequences, at the 5’ and 3’ ends of a DNA fragment, that are sufficiently unique (theoretically) so as to exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search.]
- (countable, historical, computing, backronym) Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
- (Canadian politics) Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
verb
- (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
- (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
- (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
- (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
adjective
- Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
- Kept or treated as a pet.
- (obsolete) Good; ideal.
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Examples of "pet" in Sentences
- I love my pets.
- The dog is my pet.
- Mushrooms sicken pets.
- He has a reptile as a pet.
- Ferrets are popular in pet stores.
- All of the pets are taken to the vet.
- All the animals in the petting zoo are domesticated.
- If your pet is a cat, substitute gatito for perrito.
- It is an important factor in the socialization of pets.
- Some have pet dogs, some have pet cats: then why not a _pet quiz? _ "
- Pets also have stats, which are obtained through the enchantment of the pet.
- Losing a pet is the worst feeling .... don't give up I'm sure she will be found!!
- My family, and a few friends, find the term pet sitter humorous, and a bit extragant.
- Raising them and keeping one as a pet is a very comparative experience to having a dog.
- I feel that having a pet is a much more selfish move, because a pet does not require the same amount of caring as a kid.
- In the past, I've joined the milieu to vent my pet peeves, venerate my favorite new restaurants, and eulogize those that had closed.
- But it's not at all clear, bestiality issues aside, that going through a wedding ritual to a pet is any more wrong than holding a funeral rite for a cat.
- No shelf of nature books would be complete without a volume examining the bond between people and those animal species we have invited into our homes—that rich, reciprocal process of domestication for which the term "pet" seems trivializing.
- BLITZER: What do you say to the president who spoke about what he called your pet spending projects -- money that has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, but for fishermen, peanut storage, spinach farmers, the milk industry -- that you've attached all this -- this other funding into this legislation, which has nothing do with the emergency spending needed for the war?
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