Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CAT

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Definitions of CAT

1. An animal of the family Felidae:
2. A person:
3. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
4. To go wandering at night.
5. To gossip in a catty manner.
6. Abbreviation of catapult.
7. Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
8. Abbreviation of catamaran.
9. Abbreviation of category.
10. Abbreviation of catfish.
11. Abbreviation of caterpillar.
12. Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
13. Centre for Alternative Technology
14. Counter Assault Team
15. Citizens Area Transit
16. Canadian Achievement Tests
17. Cambridge Antibody Technology
18. (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
19. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
20. (chiefly, nautical) Short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
21. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
22. (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball.
23. (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
24. (slang, vulgar, African American Vernacular English) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
25. (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
26. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
27. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
28. (slang) To vomit.
29. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
30. (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
31. (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
32. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
33. (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
34. A female given name.
35. (slang) A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of the Caterpillar brand.
36. (informal) A Catalina flying boat.
37. Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight.
38. Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
39. Acronym of common admission test.
40. Acronym of civil air transport.
41. Acronym of clear-air turbulence.
42. (medicine) Acronym of computed axial tomography.
43. Acronym of career aptitude test.
44. Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
45. Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
46. Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
47. Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
48. Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
49. Acronym of coital alignment technique.
50. Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
51. Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
52. Acronym of crisis assessment team.
53. Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.

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Examples of Using CAT in a Sentence

• Bagpuss himself is a stuffed cloth cat, referred to in the intro as "The Most Important, The Most Beautiful, The Most Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World".
• For example, if it is true that "it is raining", and it is true that "the cat is inside", then it is true that "it is raining and the cat is inside".
• The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
• The list includes established breeds recognized by various cat registries, new and experimental breeds, landraces being established as standardized breeds, distinct domestic populations not being actively developed and lapsed (extinct) breeds.
• From 2006 to 2011, she starred as Kitty Walker on the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters, and between 2015 and 2021, Flockhart appeared as Cat Grant on the superhero drama Supergirl.
• The story revolves around an earless robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a boy named Nobita Nobi.
• Some wild cat species are adapted to forest and savanna habitats, some to arid environments, and a few also to wetlands and mountainous terrain.
• Originally published locally as Jon in 1976 (later changed to Garfield in 1977), then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle.
• The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera that is native to the Americas.
• Other films in which she acted include the Francis Ford Coppola musical romance film One from the Heart (1982), erotic horror film Cat People (1982) from Paul Schrader, and the Wim Wenders drama films Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close! (1993).
• In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.
• As Scott shrinks to the point where he can fit into a dollhouse, he has a battle with his family cat, leaving him lost and alone in his basement, where he is now smaller than the average insect.
• His favorite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out and then hanging it from a tree.
• While nroff was intended to produce output on terminals and line printers, troff was intended to produce output on typesetting systems, specifically the Graphic Systems CAT that had been introduced in 1972.
• The British Shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional British domestic cat, with a distinctively stocky body, thick coat, and broad face.
• Loosely, Felidae, a member of the cat family, which includes the subfamilies Pantherinae and Felinae (conventionally designated a felid).
• The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), also called mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through Northeast India and Bhutan to mainland Southeast Asia into South China.
• Commonly referred to simply as the possum, it is a solitary nocturnal animal about the size of a domestic cat, and a successful opportunist.
• In the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy written after Illuminatus!, it is stated that "Hagbard Celine" is a pseudonym and that his legal name is Howard Crane.
• According to his wife, Brown hated to write, and did whatever he could to put it off: play his flute, challenge a friend to a game of chess, or tease Ming Tah, his Siamese cat.

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