Usually means: Small, furry, domesticated mammalian pet.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAT, Cat, cat, cat-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. CAT, CAT, Cat, cat, cat, cat, cat-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. CAT, cat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cat, cat, cat-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. CAT, cat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cat, ca't, cat: Wordnik
  7. cat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CAT, Cat, cat: Wiktionary
  9. cat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. T.H.E. CAT, cat, cat, cat-: Dictionary.com
  13. CAT, cat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CAT (gene), CAT (phototypesetter), CAT, Cat (Red Dwarf), Cat (Unix), Cat (comics), Cat (disambiguation), Cat (nickname), Cat (zodiac), Cat, T.H.E. Cat, The Cat (album), The Cat (novel), The Cat, The cat, .cat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cat: Rhymezone
  19. cat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cat, cat-: MyWord.info
  22. CAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Cat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. cat: Free Dictionary
  25. cat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. CAT, cat: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. CAT, cat, cat-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. cat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. CAT: Investopedia
  3. CAT: Legal dictionary
  4. CAT: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAT, cat: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CAT, cat: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. cat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAT, Cat, cat: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Cat: Visionary
  6. CAT, cat(a)-, cat-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. CAT, T.H.E. CAT: Acronym Finder
  5. CAT: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology
  6. CAT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. cat: Idioms
  9. cat: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  3. Cat: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cat: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Cat: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Cat: 1960's Slang
  5. C.A.T, Cat, the cat: Urban Dictionary
  6. Cat: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. CAT: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An animal of the family Felidae:
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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