CAT (catted, catting)

Pronunciation (US):

• CAT (noun)
  The noun CAT has 8 senses:

1. feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
2. an informal term for a youth or man
3. a spiteful woman gossip
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
5. a whip with nine knotted cords
6. a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
7. any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
8. 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

  Familiarity information: CAT used as a noun is common.

• CAT (verb)
  The verb CAT has 2 senses:

1. beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: CAT used as a verb is rare.

• CAT (noun)

Meaning:

Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

true cat; cat

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

felid; feline (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cat"):

domestic cat; Felis catus; Felis domesticus; house cat (any domesticated member of the genus Felis)

wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

Meaning:

An informal term for a youth or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hombre; guy; cat; bozo

Context examples:

a nice guy / the guy's only doing it for some doll

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cat"):

sod (an informal British term for a youth or man)

Meaning:

A spiteful woman gossip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

what a cat she is!

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Meaning:

The leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

quat; qat; khat; kat; Arabian tea; African tea; cat

Context example:

in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

excitant; stimulant; stimulant drug (a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process)

Meaning:

A whip with nine knotted cords

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cat-o'-nine-tails; cat

Context example:

British sailors feared the cat

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

whip (an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping)

Meaning:

A large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Caterpillar; cat

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

tracked vehicle (a self-propelled vehicle that moves on tracks)

Domain usage:

slang (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Meaning:

Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

big cat; cat

Hypernyms ("cat" is a kind of...):

felid; feline (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cat"):

saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)

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)

tiglon; tigon (offspring of a male tiger and a female lion)

liger (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger)

Panthera tigris; tiger (large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered)

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)

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)

ounce; Panthera uncia; snow leopard (large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur)

leopard; Panthera pardus (large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots)

Holonyms ("cat" is a member of...):

family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

computed axial tomography; computed tomography; computerized axial tomography; computerized tomography; CT; CAT

Hypernyms ("CAT" is a kind of...):

X-radiation; X-raying (obtaining images by the use of X rays)

• CAT (verb)

Meaning:

Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cat" is one way to...):

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip (beat severely with a whip or rod)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to cat the prisoners

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

vomit up; vomit; upchuck; throw up; sick; retch; regorge; puke; barf; be sick; spue; disgorge; cat; spew; honk; regurgitate; chuck; purge; cast

Context examples:

After drinking too much, the students vomited / He purged continuously / The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Hypernyms (to "cat" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s