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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: 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)
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 "Money talks, bullshit walks." (English proverb) "Once you are tired, you still can go far" (Breton proverb) "Every day of your life is a page of your history." (Arabic proverb) "A disaster never comes alone." (Croatian proverb)
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