Cat
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kăt/
- IPA: /kæt/
- SAMPA: /k{t/
Noun
cat, plural cats
- Any member of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, etc. Big cat is a common term for the larger members only.
- A tame species of cat (Felis silvestris catus) commonly kept as a house pet.
- (nautical) A contraction of cat o' nine tails. No room to swing a cat.
- (slang) A man.
- A player or enthusiast of jazz.
- A spiteful woman.
- A catfish.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- A catboat.
- A catamaran.
Synonyms
- (any member of Felidae): feline
- (tame species): domestic cat
- (man): bloke (British), chap (British), cove (British), dude, fellow, guy
- (spiteful woman): bitch
latin for "dog"
Translations
member of Felidae
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tame species
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cat o' nine tails
See cat o' nine tails
slang: man
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player of jazz
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enthusiast of jazz
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spiteful woman
See bitch
catfish See catfish
strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship
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catboat
See catboat
catamaran See catamaran
Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.
- Afrikaans kat
- Albanian: macja
- Arabic: قِطٌّ (qiTT)
- Basque: katu
- Belarusian: кошка
- Bosnian: mačka f, mačak m
- Breton: kazh m kizhier pl, kazhez f -ed pl
- Bulgarian: котка f
- Catalan: gat, moix m, gata, moixa f
- Chinese: 猫
- Croatian: mačka
- Czech: kočka f (1, 2), kocour m, devítiocasá kočka (3)
- Danish: kat
- Dutch: kat m, poes f, kater m
- Esperanto: kato
- Estonian: kass
- Faroese: ketta
- Frisian: kat
- Friulian: gjat
- Galician: gato
- Guaraní: mbarakaja (1)
- Greek: αγριόγατα (agriόgata)
- Hebrew: חתול
- Hungarian: macska cica f kandúr m
- Icelandic: köttur
- Indonesian: kucing
- Interlingua: catto m, catta f (1); felino m, felina f;
- Irish: cat
- Japanese: 猫 (ねこ, neko)
- Korean: 고양이 (go-yang-i)
- Ladin: giat
- Latin: feles f, cattus m (later)
- Latvian: kaķis
- Lithuanian: katė
- Lower Sorbian: kocka
- Macedonian: мачка (mačka)
- Maltese: qattus
- Mongolian: муур (muur)
- Occitan: cat
- Polish: kot m, kotka f, kotek m, kocur m, kocica f
- Romanian: pisică f, motan m, cotoi m, mâţă f
- Romansh: giat
- Romany: murtano m, mutsa f
- Russian: кот (kot) m, кошка (koška) f
- Sami: bussá
- Sardinian: gattu, pisittu, muscittu/-a, pisiddu, battu
- Scottish: cat
- Serbian: мачка (mačka)
- Slovak: kocúr m, mačka f (1)
- Slovenian: mačka f (1, 2), maček m (2)
- Slovio: kot n
- Swedish: katt
- Turkish: kedi
- Ukrainian: кіт, кішка (kit, kiška)
- Upper Sorbian: kóčka
- Welsh: cath
Noun
cat
- (computing) A command in Unix that directs the entire contents of a file to an output device in one go. Compare more, less.
Etymology
Contraction of concatenate, from Latin concatenare, chain together, from con-, with, + catena, chain, + perfect passive participle suffix -atus
Transitive verb
to cat
- (computing) To apply the cat command to (a file).
- (computing) (slang) By extension, to dump large amounts of data on an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully.
(These need to be moved to separate pages.)
Proverbs/Idioms
- "The cat's whiskers" ~ excellent, outstanding
- "Cat and mouse game" (or "Cat-and-mouse game") ~ two individuals and/or groups of individuals repeatedly keeping check on each other in a suspicious or self-protective way, often with the goal of one or both parties trying to gain a frowned-upon or malicious advantage over the other party (Examples: a. The Allied and the enemy submarine played a cat and mouse game on checking up on each other's whereabouts and supposed strategic plans. b. The hackers played a cat and mouse game with the computer's system administrators: The hackers kept trying new tricks, and the system administrators kept mounting electronic defenses to prevent damage and catch the hackers.)
- "While the cat's away the mice will play" ~ in the absence of a controlling entity, subordinates will take advantage of the situation
- "The cat's meow" ~ 1. A self-satisfied person 2. A highly sought-after and fancy example of something (usually referred to inanimate objects): That new car was really the cat's meow.
- "Fight like cats and dogs" ~ To fight highly vigorously, usually used in a non-military sense (Examples: a. He fought like cats and dogs to get out of his wrecked car. b. The three children fought like cats and dogs over who would get the biggest piece of cake.)
- "Rain (like) cats and dogs" ~ To rain forcefully and massively: It's raining like cats and dogs outside!
Related terms
- bobcat
- cat-house
- catty
- Cheshire Cat
- fat cat
- wildcat
- wild cat
See also
Nevbosh
Verb
cat
- to get
