Definition of Cat

cattus

The mouse-hunters of Middle-earth.
The most famous cats in the histories of Middle-earth were the cats of Queen Berúthiel, nine black and one white, belonging to the queen of King Tarannon of Gondor.

(v. t.)
To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
  

(n.)
An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
  

(n.)
An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
  

(n.)
A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
  

(n.)
A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
  

(n.)
A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
  

(n.)
A cat o' nine tails. See below.
  

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cat
\cat\ (kăt), n. [as. cat; akin to d. & dan. kat, sw. katt, icel. k?ttr, g. katze, kater, ir. cat, w. cath, armor. kaz, ll. catus, bisc. catua, ngr. ga`ta, ga`tos, russ. & pol. kot, turk. kedi, ar. qitt; of unknown origin. cf. kitten.]
1. (zo?l.) an animal of various species of the genera felis and lynx. the domestic cat is felis domestica. the european wild cat (felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. in the united states the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (lynx rufus) see wild cat, and tiger cat.
note: the domestic cat includes many varieties named from their place of origin or from some peculiarity; as, the angora cat; the maltese cat; the manx cat.
note: the word cat is also used to designate other animals, from some fancied resemblance; as, civet cat, fisher cat, catbird, catfish shark, sea cat.
2. (naut.) (a) a strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. it is employed in the coal and timber trade. (b) a strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
3. a double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
4. an old game; (a) the game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. see tipcat. (c) a game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
5. a cat o' nine tails. see below.

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 to whip the cat 
 cat-salt 
 pussy cat 
 wild cat 
 to let the cat out of the bag 
 cat-eyed 
 jungle cat 
 cat-harpin 
 black cat 
 wild-cat 
 cat-harping 
 duck-billed cat 
 toddy cat 
 civet cat 
 angora cat 
 tortoiseshell-cat 
 blind cat 
 alley cat 
 cat-rigged 
 java cat 
 mud cat 
 cat-hole 
 manx cat 
 bush cat 
 mountain cat 
 stone cat 
 electric cat 
 cat-tail 
 tib-cat 
 cat-silver 
 leopard cat 
 kitty-cat 
 tiger cat 
 bay cat 
 true cat 
 bear cat 
 caffer cat 
 long-tailed cat 
 cat nap 
 musk cat 
 maltese cat 
 cat o` nine tails 
 cat and dog 
 hunting cat 
 straw cat 
 cat bear 
 big cat 
 cat block 
 channel cat 
 persian cat 
 kaffir cat 
 cat thyme 
 cat hook 
 calico cat 
 sea cat 
 cat brier 
 to tear a cat 
 cat squirrel 

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Meaning
A box-like shape made from twisting a loop of string around the fingers.
Origin
Once a popular pastime for children. A corruption of cratchcradle, from the French for manger. Cattle's feed racks are still known as crathes.

Meaning

A small and temporary recovery in a financial market following a large fall.

When a financial market suffers a consistent fall traders attempt to detect when prices are at their lowest and then buy stocks hoping for a bargain. If they buy too soon prices may rise temporarily but then decline again. This is called the dead cat bounce. The idea being that even a dead cat will bounce if you drop it from a great height.

The phrase seems to have struck a chord and other 'bounce' phrases have emerged, notably 'Baghdad bounce'. This is the rise in popularity that both George Bush and Tony Blair enjoyed following the fall of Baghdad in the Iraqi War. That popularity waned somewhat later when it became clear that pulling allied troops out of Iraq was likely to take longer than the public had first anticipated. Origin

The earliest citation we have found is:

"This is what we call a 'dead cat bounce'," one broker said flatly.
—Chris Sherwell, Financial Times, December 7, 1985

Meaning
To disclose a secret.
Origin
A favourite country trick used to be to substitute a cat for a pig at markets. If you let the cat out of the bag you disclosed the trick - and avoided buying a pig in a poke (bag).

Meaning
A small space.
Origin
Whether the 'cat' was a real moggy or the flail-like whip used to punish sailors in the British Navy isn't clear.

Meaning
Raining very heavily.
Origin
The phrase is supposed to have originated in england in the 17th century. City streets were then filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals. Richard Brome's The City Witt, 1652 has the line 'It shall rain dogs and polecats'. Also, cats and dogs both have ancient associations with bad weather. Witches were supposed to ride the wind during storms in the form of cats.

Meaning
A broad smile.
Origin
Like the smile of the cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The origin of the phrase is earlier than Carroll. It has associations with the English county of Cheshire although there is no clear evidence whether the reference is to real cats, someone called Cat or a family with a cat on its coat of arms etc.

Meaning
There is more than one way of achieving a goal.
Origin
The skinning may just refer to the notional parting of a cat and its skin. Another meaning of skin is to beat. The unfortunate feline may have suffered in that way.

no good, awful, very bad

cot cat

cat
prov., When the cat is away, the mice will play: Nuair atá an cat amuigh bíonn na luch ag damhsa

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Cath = n. cat

Gwrcath = n. a he cat

Titw = n. a cat, in fond language

Cat, (n.)

A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

This is a dog,
This is a cat.
This is a frog,
This is a rat.
Run, dog, mew, cat.
Jump, frog, gnaw, rat.

Elevenson
  

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1. (prison) inmate who, while heterosexual outside of prison, submits to the passive role in homosexual sex; 2. homosexual; 3. effeminate male; 4. (older slang) person, especially a young jazz musician or devotee of jazz (originally US Black English (1920s); cf. Wolof (an African language) “-kat” - “person”)

(very) busy

rare (alluding to Vietnamese eating cats)

mean, stingy, uncharitable

excellent person, proposal, etc.

excellent person, proposal, etc.

excellent person, proposal, etc.

fight between two women

dice

look deliriously happy or satisfied

person who expects special comforts and privileges because of their position or wealth: "the fat cats of the Public Service"

give way to suppressed feelings of frustration by venting one's irritation on someone

go very fast

Why don't you keep your mind on the bloody job?!

give way to suppressed feelings of frustration by venting one's irritation on someone

in a state of extreme agitation

in a state of extreme agitation

something horrid or abhorrent

raining very heavily

(especially in children's speech) coward

the certainty of the situation

humorous invitation to be extravagant

very talkative (too much tongue)

cry over split milk; give way to suppressed feelings of frustration by venting one's irritation on someone; make a fuss or commotion; reproach oneself

"You are not competent to comment on the matter"

1. vagina
2. person; used in the 70s
3. when someone is being a pussy about something;"Why don't you ask the girl out and stop being so cat?"
4. pimp-walking;"He's always catting when he passes by a group of ladies"
5. a friend, comrade:"All my cats are headed to the party"
6. a female: "Look at that fine cat across the street"
7. see also cat's whiskers

vagina

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Noun
1. 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
(synonym) computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography
(hypernym) X-raying, X-radiation

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Noun
1. feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats
(synonym) true cat
(hypernym) feline, felid
(hyponym) domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
2. an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"
(synonym) guy, hombre, bozo
(hypernym) man, adult male
(hyponym) sod
3. a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
(hypernym) gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
4. 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"
(synonym) kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea, African tea
(hypernym) stimulant, stimulant drug
5. a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"
(synonym) cat-o'-nine-tails
(hypernym) whip
6. a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
(synonym) Caterpillar
(hypernym) tracked vehicle
(classification) trademark
7. any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
(synonym) big cat
(hypernym) feline, felid
(hyponym) leopard, Panthera pardus
(member-holonym) Felidae, family Felidae

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Verb
1. beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
(hypernym) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
(derivation) cat-o'-nine-tails
2. 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"
(synonym) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
(hypernym) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

Turbulence encountered in air where no clouds are present. This term is commonly applied to high-level turbulence associated with wind shear. CAT is often encountered in the vicinity of the jet stream. (FAA4)

Computer Aided Testing

a tractor designed to move easily over rough terrain, used often to clear areas in earth-moving operations and in skidding rigs.It is a shortened form of Caterpillar, a trade name.

CATERPILLAR INC
Exchange: NYSE
Designs, manufactures and markets construction, mining and agricultural machinery, such as track and wheel tractors and loaders, pipelayers, motor graders, wheel tractor-scrapers, track and wheel excavators, backhoe loaders, mining shovels, log skidders, log loaders, off-highway trucks, articulated trucks, paving products, telescopic

category; crisis action team
  

Catapult

Fear of cats

Fear of Dogs

Fear of mice
Also known as Murophobia

Guilt (especially if black:), the intestines / stomach (pun on cat gut)

Cycle adjustment technique (CAT) was developed by Daniel Love and is a way to induce lucid dreaming through increased alertness, making lucidity more likely.
  

(CAT): The bacterial gene for chloramphenicol, CAT, is commonly used as a reporter gene for investigating physiological gene regulation. Beta-galactosidase and luciferase genes can also be used for the same purpose.

Computer-Aided Tomography 

Computer Aided Typesetting

Computer Aided Tomography;
Composite ATM to TDM (TCA);
Card Application Toolkit

Category

[Clear Air Turbulence] Bumpy conditions in the upper atmosphere when no clouds are present to betray the possibility of such. Caused by sharp vertical and horizontal shear of wind, often (but not exclusively) in association with upper-level jet streams .Can occur in, or be enhanced by mountain wave activity.

Abyssinian , American Bobtail , American Curl , American Shorthair , American Wirehair , Balinese , Bengal , Birman , Bombay , British Shorthair , Burmese , Burmilla , California Spangled Cat , Chartreux , Colorpoint , Cornish Rex , Cymric , Devon Rex , Egyptian Mau , Exotic Shorthair , Foreign Burmese , Havana Brown , Highland Fold , Himalayan , Japanese Bobtail , Javanese , Korat , La Perm , Maine Coon , Manx , Munchkin , Nebelung , Norwegian Forest Cat , Ocicat , Oriental , Persian , Ragdoll , Russian Blue , Scottish Fold , Selkirk Rex , Siamese , Siberian , Singapura , Snowshoe , Somali , Sphynx , Tonkinese , Turkish Angora , Turkish Van , York Chocolate .

Clear Air Turbulence

Catapult or Category

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Clear Air Turbulence

dBase Catalog
Microsoft Security Catalog (distributed with drivers and updates to assure file integrity)
Todd Osborne Directory Catalog
Quicken IntelliCharge Categorization File
Cognos Impromptu Database Report
OzWin CompuServe E-mail/Forum Access Catalog File
Photomatrix PhotoStudio Graphic

Computer Aided Transcription

Computer Adaptive Test + Computer Aided Testing +

[from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt.

1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause. 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also dd, BLT.

Among Unix fans, cat(1) 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, 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(1) 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 two files. The name cat for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr.

Of such oppositions are holy wars made....

That subset of CAL that entails Computer Aided Teaching. This subset is restricted to software designed for authoring and/or delivery of learning materials in a classroom or on line in a computer network or teleconference in which the instructor is present and using the CAT materials as an aid to his or her teaching.

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1 part Tiquila
1 part Amaretto

Serve in lowball glass.

1 part Kahlua
1 part Apricot brandy
1 part Uozo

Serve in lowball glass.

musician.

1) (n) Vagina. "Sprung on the Cat" -- Sir Mixalot (Sprung on the cat [1992]). 2) (n) Person. Used in the 70s. "You cant take the jungle out of the cat" -- Jeru Tha Damaja (Frustrated Nigger [1995]). 2) (adv) When someone is being a pussy about something. "Why don't you ask the girl out and stop being so cat?"

1) (n) Vagina. "Sprung on the Cat" -- Sir Mixalot (Sprung on the cat [1992]). 2) (n) Person. Used in the 70s. "You cant take the jungle out of the cat" -- Jeru Tha Damaja (Frustrated Nigger [1995]).
2) (adv) When someone is being a pussy about something. "Why don't you ask the girl out and stop being so cat?"

Cat Egyptian symbol of the moon {SD 1:304-5, 387-8; 2:545-6, 552n}

Cable Avoiding Tool

adjective
referring to an axis
axial skeleton = trunk, the main part of the skeleton, formed of the spine, skull, ribs and breastbone
compare APPENDICULAR SKELETON
computerized axial tomography (CAT) = system of scanning a patient's body, where a narrow X-ray beam, guided by a computer, can photograph a thin section of the body or of an organ from several angles, using the computer to build up an image of the section

The thumbs and index fingers of both hands stroke an imaginary pair of whiskers at either side of the face.

Computed Abdominal Tomography