cat
SubstantivVerbSubstantivVerbSubstantivAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkæt//
- Vereinigtes Königreich/[ˈkʰæt]/
Terms relating to animals. A mammal of the family Felidae.
Substantiv
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Terms relating to animals. A mammal of the family Felidae.
Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
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Terms relating to animals. A mammal of the family Felidae. A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
A major genetic survey of nearly 1,000 feral and domestic cats has revealed that every breed of household cat alive today originates from just five lineages which lived alongside ancient settlers in the Fertile Crescent, an area stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.
A group of wild cats is called a destruction.
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Terms relating to animals. A mammal of the family Felidae. A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
“[…]—Say, do you mind telling me if people around here really eat cats?” He felt a shiver in the pit of his stomach. “Do they eat cat?” said the little old man, profoundly shocked.
You do not eat cat simply for the thrill of eating cat. You eat cat because cats have a lively jingshen, or spirit, and thus by eating the animal you will improve your spirits.
I ate at a Chinese restaurant once, even though my friends told me I would probably be eating cat and dog disguised as chicken.
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Terms relating to animals. A mammal of the family Felidae. Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty cat.
She felt privileged to be here, living the experience inside the majestic cat [a tiger]; privileged to be part of their bond, even for only a few hours.
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Terms relating to animals. Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1, noun sense 1.1.1).
civet cat polecat
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übertragenTerms relating to people. An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
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veraltendTerms relating to people. An ordinary person, especially a man; a fellow, a guy.
Now you've listened to my story / Here's the point that I have made / Cats were born to give chicks fever / Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
Didn't know what time it was the lights were low / I leaned back on my radio / Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll 'lotta soul, he said
1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77. BALDWIN: That's what we were talking about before. And by the way, you did not have to tell me that you think your father is a groovy cat; I knew that.
What fags are true I know what Mack's might do I'm quite familiar with cats like you Provoke to get me give me a good reason to smoke me Try to break me but never wrote me)
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übertragenTerms relating to people. Synonym of itinerant worker.
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übertragenTerms relating to people. A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
a jazz cat
I turn on the radio / There's some cat on the saxophone / Laying down a litany of excuses
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übertragenTerms relating to people. Synonym of prostitute.
"Tell me. Willie said there was a cat in love with you. That isn't true, is it?" "Yes. It's true," Hudson corrects her, letting her think that by "cat" he means prostitute.
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Terms relating to things. A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
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altertümlichTerms relating to things. The game of trap ball; also (countable), the trap in that game.
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altertümlichTerms relating to things. The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
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Terms relating to things. A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
Overhaul down & hook the cat, haul taut. Walk away the cat. When up, pass the cat head stopper. Hook the fish in & fish the anchor.
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altertümlichTerms relating to things. Now only in catboat: a sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
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historischTerms relating to things. A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering cat as it came closer.
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SlangTerms relating to things. A vagina or vulva.
"What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat."
As she came up, she tried to put her cat in his face for some licking.
I had a notion to walk over to her, rip her apron off, sling her housecoat open and put my finger inside her cat to see if she was wet or freshly fucked because the dream I had earlier was beginning to really annoy me.
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Variante von cat-o'-nine-tailsTerms relating to things. Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
[H]e whipped a black man for disobedience of his orders fifty lashes; and again whipped him with a cat, which he wound with wire, about the same number of stripes;[…] he used this cat on one other man, and then destroyed the cat wound with wire.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kattuz Proto-West Germanic *kattu Old English catt Middle English cat English cat From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz, generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial), possibly from an Afroasiatic language. Doublet of gato. A loan from Afro-Asiatic into European languages would roughly match how the animal itself spread, as genetic studies suggest domestic cats first began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic, especially after they became popular and domesticated in Egypt 4000 years ago; they were found in Greece and Italy later, 2500 years ago. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (kadīs, “kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa), which has long been thought to be non-Arabic in origin. Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t, but John Huehnergard says "the source … was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested." It may be a wanderword. Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”). Cognates Related to Scots cat (“cat”), North Frisian kaat, kaot, Kat, kåt (“cat”), Saterland Frisian Kat (“cat”), West Frisian kat (“cat”), Alemannic German Chats, Chatz, chatza, chatzu, chatzò, chàzzà, Kàtz (“cat”), Bavarian ckozza, Katz, khoze, kòtze (“cat”), Cimbrian katze, khatz, khatza (“cat”), Dutch kat (“cat”), German Katze (“cat”), German Low German Katt (“cat”), Luxembourgish Kaz (“cat”), Mòcheno kòtz (“cat”), Yiddish קאַץ (kats, “cat”), Danish kat (“cat”), Faroese køttur (“cat”), Icelandic köttur (“cat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish katt (“cat”), Latin cattus, catus (“cat”), Aromanian cãtush (“cat”), French chat (“cat”), Occitan, Norman cat (“cat”), Portuguese, Spanish gato (“cat”), Breton kaz, kazh (“cat”), Cornish cath, kath (“cat”), Irish cat, cut (“cat”), Scottish Gaelic cat (“cat”), Welsh cath (“cat”), as well as Ancient Greek κάτα (káta), κάττα (kátta, “cat”), Greek γάτα (gáta, “cat”), Turkish kedi (“cat”), and from the same ultimate source Belarusian, Russian кот (kot, “cat”), Ukrainian кіт (kit, “cat”), Polish kot (“cat”), Kashubian kòt (“cat”), Latvian kaķis (“cat”), Lithuanian katė (“cat”), and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu, “cat”), Basque katu (“cat”), Georgian კატა (ḳaṭa, “cat”), Classical Syriac ܩܛܐ, ܩܛܘ (“cat”), Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa, “cat”) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs, “cat”) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
Verb
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To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
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To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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altertümlichTo vomit.
‘He's going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away.
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To go wandering at night.
"He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his catting about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.
This was going to be my first try at catting out. I went looking for somebody to cat with me.
My own dear wife could have tended to his needs if she hadn't been out catting.
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To gossip in a catty manner.
Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.
They smiled, touched, rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows, as they relived the audition and catted about some of their competition.
In the story, Lady Ina gossiped and catted about a parade of the rich and famous—Jackie Kennedy looking like an exaggerated version of herself, Princess Margaret so boring she made people fall asleep, Gloria Vanderbilt so ditzy she didn't recognize her first husband.
Substantiv
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A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Herkunft
From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
Verb
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To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
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SlangTo dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Substantiv
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SlangA street name of the drug methcathinone.
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SlangAbbreviation of caterpillar. Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
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Abbreviation of caterpillar. A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
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Variante von catapultAbbreviation of catapult.
a carrier's bow cats
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Variante von catalytic converterAbbreviation of catalytic converter.
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Variante von catamaranAbbreviation of catamaran.
These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells.
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Variante von categoryAbbreviation of category.
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Variante von catfishAbbreviation of catfish.
She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.
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Variante von computed axial tomographyAbbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
Herkunft
Abbreviations.
Adjektiv
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Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
Formen
- Plural
- cats
- Präteritum
- catted
- Partizip II
- catted
- Partizip I
- catting
- 3. Person Singular
- cats
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