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▸ noun: A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
▸ noun: Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
▸ noun: A person:
▸ noun: (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman.
▸ noun: An enthusiast or player of jazz.
▸ noun: (slang) A person (usually male).
▸ noun: (slang) A prostitute.
▸ noun: (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
▸ noun: (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
▸ noun: (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball.
▸ noun: (archaic, countable) The trap in that game.
▸ noun: (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
▸ noun: (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) A vagina or vulva.
▸ noun: A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
▸ noun: (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
▸ verb: (slang) To vomit.
▸ verb: To go wandering at night.
▸ verb: To gossip in a catty manner.
▸ noun: (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
▸ verb: (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
▸ verb: (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
▸ noun: (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
▸ noun: Abbreviation of caterpillar.
▸ noun: (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
▸ noun: A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the female given names Catherine or Caitlin.
▸ noun: (slang) A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of the Caterpillar brand.
▸ noun: (informal) A Catalina flying boat.
▸ noun: Centre for Alternative Technology
▸ noun: Counter Assault Team
▸ noun: Citizens Area Transit
▸ noun: Canadian Achievement Tests
▸ noun: Cambridge Antibody Technology
▸ noun: (chiefly nautical) Short for cat-o'-nine-tails. [(nautical) A scourge (multi-tail whip) having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of catapult. [A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of catalytic converter. [(automotive) A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of catamaran. [A twin-hulled ship or boat.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of category. [A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of catfish. [Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”. [(medicine) A medical imaging process involving the use of multiple X-ray images to produce a three dimensional image of internal organs.]
▸ noun: Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight. [A Berber language spoken by some three million people in central Morocco.]
▸ noun: Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
▸ noun: Acronym of common admission test.
▸ noun: Acronym of civil air transport.
▸ noun: Acronym of clear-air turbulence. [The erratic movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues, especially such movement that causes unexpected turbulence to an aircraft.]
▸ noun: (medicine) Acronym of computed axial tomography. [(medicine) A medical imaging process involving the use of multiple X-ray images to produce a three dimensional image of internal organs.]
▸ noun: Acronym of career aptitude test.
▸ noun: Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
▸ noun: Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
▸ noun: Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
▸ noun: Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
▸ noun: Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
▸ noun: Acronym of coital alignment technique.
▸ noun: Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
▸ noun: Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
▸ noun: Acronym of crisis assessment team.
▸ noun: Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
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