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| Noun | 1. | cat - feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcatsfelid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild |
| 2. | cat - an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" | |
| 3. | cat - a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, gossip - a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" | |
| 4. | cat - 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" | |
| 5. | cat - a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" whip - an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping | |
| 6. | cat - a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work tracked vehicle - a self-propelled vehicle that moves on tracks | |
| 7. | cat - any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wildfamily Felidae, Felidae - cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers felid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws Panthera pardus, leopard - large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots Panthera uncia, snow leopard, ounce - large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur Felis onca, jaguar, panther, Panthera onca - a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis king of beasts, lion, Panthera leo - large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male Panthera tigris, tiger - large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered liger - offspring of a male lion and a female tiger Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetah - long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game sabertooth, saber-toothed tiger - any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | |
| 8. | CAT - 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 computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography, CT X-raying, X-radiation - obtaining images by the use of X rays | |
| Verb | 1. | cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| 2. | cat - 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" |