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      cat
      noun
      Terms relating to animals.
      (countable) A mammal of the family Felidae.
      A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
      (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
      Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
      (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1, sense 1.1.1).
      (countable, figurative) Terms relating to people.
      (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
      (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
      (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
      (by extension) Terms relating to things.
      A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
      (countable, nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
      (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
      (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.
      (games) (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball; also (countable), the trap in that game.
      (games) (archaic, countable) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
      (countable, nautical) (archaic) Now only in catboat: a sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
      (slang) A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe or bulldozer, of the Caterpillar brand. (Occasionally, loosely, any big yellow machine of the type.)
      (informal) A Catalina flying boat.
      A diminutive of the female given names Catherine or Caitlin.
      Citizens Area Transit
      Centre for Alternative Technology
      Counter Assault Team
      Canadian Achievement Tests
      Cambridge Antibody Technology
      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 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 catamaran. [A twin-hulled ship or boat.]
      Abbreviation of catapult. [A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.]
      Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”. [(medicine, dated) Computed tomography in the axial plane (which was the original type). Sometimes referred to as “computerized axial tomography”.]
      (countable, nautical) (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails. [(nautical) A scourge (multi-tail whip) having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment.]
      (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Caterpillar Inc..
      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 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, dated) Computed tomography in the axial plane (which was the original type). Sometimes referred to as “computerized axial tomography”.]
      Acronym of career aptitude test.
      Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
      Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
      Acronym of coital alignment technique.
      Acronym of civil air transport.
      Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
      Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
      Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
      Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
      Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
      Acronym of crisis assessment team.
      Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
      (slang, dated) An ordinary person, especially a man; a fellow, a guy.
      (slang, obsolete) Synonym of prostitute.
      (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
      verb
      (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
      (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
      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.
      (slang, now rare) To vomit.
      adjective
      (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
      Synonyms for cat
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      Words related to cat
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