Dictionary entry details
• 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
