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Cat

noun

1.

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

2.

An informal term for a youth or man. Synonyms: bozo, guy, hombre. "The guy's only doing it for some doll"

3.

A spiteful woman gossip.

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

5.

A whip with nine knotted cords. Synonym: cat-o'-nine-tails.

6.

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.

Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild. Synonym: 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. Synonyms: computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography, CT.

verb

(past & past part. catted; pres. part. catting)

1.

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

2.

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up. "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

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"Cat" Quotes from Famous Books

... best to Desmond to send Dickon for help while he himself still mounted guard. Creeping silently as a cat along the shrubbery, he hastened back to the laborer, told him in a hurried whisper of his discovery, and bade him steal round to the servants' quarters, rouse them quietly, and bring one or two to trap the man at the foot of the ladder while others made a dash through ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... which, whatever its merit may be, is not particularly well adapted to that instrument. Verona and Romeo were straightway replaced by Cowfold and the Cowfold consort. He was in the best of spirits, and he stooped down just as his wife was waking, took the cat—which was lying before the fire—and threw it ...

— Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers - Gideon; Samuel; Saul; Miriam's Schooling; and Michael Trevanion • Mark Rutherford

... much," purred Lady Caroline. Her amusement was usually of the sort that a sporting cat derives from watching the Swedish exercises of a ...

— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki

... maces, and even the handgun, which was beginning to find a place amongst the more time-honoured arms of offence and defence—were surrounding the struggling figure of a woman, a young woman the traveller fancied, from her slimness and the cat-like agility which she displayed in struggling ...

— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green

... him into her father's house Was not exactly the best way to save, But like conveying to the cat the mouse, Or people in a trance into their grave; Because the good old man had so much 'nous,' Unlike the honest Arab thieves so brave, He would have hospitably cured the stranger, And sold him ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

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