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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



... oath as he dropped the hammer. 'It can't be done. Run, cat!' he cried—and away he started after his men. The name that I called him as he ran away, Monsieur, was a very foul name; God forgive me for what I said! But I was determined that it should be done. In a second I had picked ...
— For The Honor Of France - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier

... a nutshell; and that marks the difference between a wolf and a caribou, for instance, which in doubt trusts his nose or his curiosity. So the old wolf took counsel of her fears for her little ones, and that night carried them one by one in her mouth, as a cat carries her kittens, miles away over rocks and ravines and spruce thickets, to another den where no human eye ever looked upon ...
— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... value or capacity may thus carry off the prize, even though its other organs deserve a much lower mark. This is the case with man. In almost every respect, except in brain and hand, he is surpassed by the carnivora, the cat, for example. But muscle may be marked, in making up the aggregate, on a scale of 500, and brain on a scale of 5,000, or perhaps of 50,000. A very slight difference in brain capacity outweighs a great superiority in muscle in the struggle between ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... almost comic. As soon as we were out of hearing of the Senator's apartment, shaking both fists frantically at me, he cried: "You've ruined everything! We had him. We had him—all right—until you came down here and let the cat out of the bag! You knew what we'd been telling him. Why didn't ...
— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

... must," said Lillie, "you must spell 'cat,' and you must learn to read the Bible; and you and I will read the Bible every single morning, and a ...
— Baby Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow


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