Dictionary Definition
cat
Noun
1 feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and
being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: true cat]
2 an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice
guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, hombre, bozo]
3 a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she
is!"
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; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
[syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea,
African
tea]
5 a whip with nine knotted cords; "British
sailors feared the cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails]
6 a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar
tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm
work [syn: Caterpillar]
7 any of several large cats typically able to
roar and living in the wild [syn: big cat]
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 [syn: computerized
tomography, computed
tomography, CT,
computerized axial tomography, computed
axial tomography]
Verb
1 beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2 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" [syn: vomit,
vomit
up, purge, cast, sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant:
keep
down] [also: catting, catted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /kæt/, /k
Extensive Definition
about domestic
felines
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Abyssinian cat, Adamite, Angora cat, Argus, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla
cat, Himalayan cat, Maltese cat, Manx cat, Persian cat, alley cat,
barf, bastard, being, belt, bird, blacksnake, bloke, blue cat, blue devils,
blues, body, boy, buck, bugger, bullwhack, bullwhip, calico cat, cascade, cast, chap, character, coon cat, cowhide, creature, crop, customer, dods, dorts, duck, dumps, eagle, earthling, feline, feller, fellow, ferret, flagellum, frumps, gee, gent, gentleman, gib, gib-cat, grimalkin, groundling, grumps, guy, hand, hawk, head, heave, homo, horsewhip, house cat, human, human being, individual, jasper, joker, kit, kitling, kitten, kitty, kitty-cat, knout, kurbash, lad, lash, life, living soul, lynx, man, mopes, mortal, mouser, mulligrubs, mumps, nose, one, party, person, personage, personality, pouts, puke, puss, pussy, pussycat, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, scourge, silver cat, single, sjambok, somebody, someone, soul, spew, strap, stud, sulks, sullens, tabby, tabby cat, tellurian, terran, thong, throw up, tiger cat,
tom, tomcat, tortoise-shell cat,
weasel, whip, whiplash, worldling