ALL meanings of cat
cat
C c - countable noun cat A cat is a furry animal that has a long tail and sharp claws. Cats are often kept as pets. 3
- countable noun cat Cats are lions, tigers, and other wild animals in the same family. 3
- noun cat a small domesticated feline mammal, Felis catus (or domesticus), having thick soft fur and occurring in many breeds in which the colour of the fur varies greatly: kept as a pet or to catch rats and mice 3
- noun cat any of the larger felines, such as a lion or tiger 3
- noun cat any wild feline mammal of the genus Felis, such as the lynx or serval, resembling the domestic cat 3
- noun cat a woman who gossips maliciously 3
- noun cat a man; guy 3
- noun cat a heavy tackle for hoisting an anchor to the cathead 3
- noun cat a short sharp-ended piece of wood used in the game of tipcat 3
- verb cat to flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails 3
- verb cat to hoist (an anchor) to the cathead 3
- noun cat (as modifier) 3
- abbreviation CAT computer-aided teaching 3
- abbreviation CAT computer-assisted trading 3
- abbreviation CAT computerized axial tomography 3
- abbreviation CAT catalogue 3
- noun cat clear-air turbulence 3
- noun cat any of a family (Felidae) of carnivores, including the lion, tiger, cougar, etc., characterized by a lithe body and, in all species but the cheetah, retractile claws 3
- noun cat a small, lithe, soft-furred animal (Felis cattus) of this family, domesticated since ancient times and often kept as a pet or for killing mice 3
- noun cat a person regarded as a cat in some way 3
- noun cat a woman who makes spiteful remarks 3
- abbreviation CAT cat-o'-nine-tails 3
- noun cat a catfish 3
- noun cat a catboat 3
- noun cat tipcat 3
- noun cat caterpillar (tractor) 3
- noun cat a jazz musician or enthusiast 3
- noun cat any person, esp. a man 3
- noun cat a tackle for hoisting an anchor to the cathead 3
- abbreviation CAT catalog 3
- abbreviation CAT catechism 3
- noun Definition of cat in Technology (tool) (From "catenate") Unix's command which copies one or more entire files to the screen or some other output sink without pause. See also dd, BLT. Among Unix fans, cat 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 (the pr command can be used to do this), 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 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 files. The name "cat" for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr. Of such oppositions are holy wars made. 1
- noun cat a small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or F. catus, bred in a number of varieties. 1
- noun cat any of several carnivores of the family Felidae, as the lion, tiger, leopard or jaguar, etc. 1
- noun cat Slang. a person, especially a man. a devotee of jazz. 1
- noun cat a woman given to spiteful or malicious gossip. 1
- noun cat the fur of the domestic cat. 1
- noun Definition of cat in Technology Common Abstract Tree Language. R. Voeller & Uwe Schmidt, U Kiel, Germany 1983. Universal intermediate language, used by Norsk Data in their family of compilers. "A Multi-Language Compiler System with Automatically Generated Codegenerators, U. Schmidt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 19(6):202-2121 (June 1984). 1
- noun cat a cat-o'-nine-tails. 1
- noun cat Games. Chiefly British. the tapering piece of wood used in the game of tipcat. Chiefly British. the game itself. four old cat, one old cat, three old cat, two old cat. 1
- noun cat a catboat. 1
- noun cat a catamaran. 1
- noun cat a catfish. 1
- noun cat Nautical. a tackle used in hoisting an anchor to the cathead. 1
- noun cat a double tripod having six legs but resting on only three no matter how it is set down, usually used before or over a fire. 1
- noun cat Navy Informal. catapult (def 2). 1
- noun cat (in medieval warfare) a movable shelter for providing protection when approaching a fortification. 1
- verb with object cat to flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. 1
- verb with object cat Nautical. to hoist (an anchor) and secure to a cathead. 1
- verb without object cat British Slang. to vomit. 1