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Cats

noun
/kæts/
Word Frequency: 7.2

Definitions

1.nounAn animal of the family Felidae:
2.nounA person:
3.nounA strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
4.nounShort form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
5.nounA sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
6.nounThe game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
7.nounThe pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
8.nounA vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
9.nounA double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
10.nounA wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
11.verbTo hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
12.verbTo flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
13.verbTo vomit.
14.verbTo go wandering at night.
15.verbTo gossip in a catty manner.
16.nounA program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
17.verbTo apply the cat command to (one or more files).
18.verbTo dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
19.nounA catapult.
"a carrier's bow cats"
20.nounAny of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
21.nounA caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
22.nounA twin-hulled ship or boat.
23.nounA quarrelsome woman; a scold.
24.nounA raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
25.nounAn old kind of fireship.
26.nounA group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
"I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel."
27.nounA collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
"Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid."
28.nounAny fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth
29.nounSomeone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
30.nounSuch a fake profile.

Synonyms

saber-toothsaber-toothed catfelinefeline catpantherinepantherine catCaniformiacarnivorancat-likefeliformfeloidjaguar

Rhymes With

aristocratsplutocratsspatscaveatslatsflatsbureaucratssplats
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