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CAT

noun

1 cat

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

synonym: true cat.

Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.    navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.    man of war etc. (combatant) 726; ... show more

Roget 366: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.    beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, ... show more

Roget 407: roll etc. v.; drumming etc. v.; berloque, bombination, rumbling; tattoo, drumroll; dingdong; tantara; rataplan; ... show more

Roget 441: vision, sight, optics, eyesight.    view, look, espial, glance, ken [Scot.], coup d'oeil [Fr.]; glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, ... show more

Roget 975: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote, blacksnake, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote, kurbash, quirt, ... show more

Dutch: huiskat
Polish: kot

2 cat

An informal term for a youth or man.

synonyms: bozo, guy, hombre, sod.

Dutch: jongens, gasten
Polish: chłop, facet, facio, gość, gościu, gostek, klient, koleś, kolo

3 cat

A spiteful woman gossip.

Dutch: kat, katje, kattekop, kattenkop

4 cat

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

synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, kat, khat, qat, quat.

Dutch: qat

5 cat

A whip with nine knotted cords:
— British sailors feared the cat.

synonym: cat-o'-nine-tails.

Polish: kańczug, nahaj, nahajka, pejcz, szpicruta

6 cat

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

synonym: Caterpillar.

7 cat

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

synonym: big cat.

8 CAT

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.

synonyms: computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography, CT.

verb

1 cat

Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

2 cat

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.

synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate ... show more.

Dutch: kotsen, spuwen, vomeren, braken, spugen, overgeven, leegstromen


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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