Dictionary entry details
• RAT (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("rat" is a kind of...):
gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rat"):
pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)
Oryzomys palustris; rice rat (hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States)
jerboa rat (large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping)
bandicoot rat; mole rat (burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon)
black rat; Rattus rattus; roof rat (common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide)
brown rat; Norway rat; Rattus norvegicus (common domestic rat; serious pest worldwide)
Meaning:
Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blackleg; strikebreaker; scab; rat
Hypernyms ("rat" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Meaning:
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
stinkpot; stinker; so-and-so; skunk; scum bag; rotter; puke; lowlife; git; dirty dog; bum; crumb; rat
Context examples:
only a rotter would do that / kill the rat / throw the bum out / you cowardly little pukes! / the British call a contemptible person a 'git'
Hypernyms ("rat" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Meaning:
One who reveals confidential information in return for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
squealer; informer; blabber; betrayer; rat
Hypernyms ("rat" is a kind of...):
informant; source (a person who supplies information)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rat"):
canary; fink; sneak; sneaker; snitch; snitcher; stool pigeon; stoolie; stoolpigeon (someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police)
copper's nark; nark (an informer or spy working for the police)
supergrass (a police informer who implicates many people)
Meaning:
A pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rat" is a kind of...):
pad (a usually thin flat mass of padding)
Holonyms ("rat" is a part of...):
coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
• RAT (verb)
Meaning:
Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
defect; desert (desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Employ scabs or strike breakers in
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
employ; engage; hire (engage or hire for work)
Domain category:
industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Take the place of work of someone on strike
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
blackleg; fink; scab; rat
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
do work; work (be employed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
fill out; pad (line or stuff with soft material)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Catch rats, especially with dogs
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Give away information about somebody
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
tell on; shit; stag; snitch; shop; give away; denounce; betray; rat; grass
Context example:
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
Hypernyms (to "rat" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rat"):
sell out (give information that compromises others)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
