Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CAT
CAT
Definitions of CAT
- An animal of the family Felidae:
- A person:
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- Abbreviation of caterpillar.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Counter Assault Team
- Citizens Area Transit
- Canadian Achievement Tests
- Cambridge Antibody Technology
- (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- (chiefly, nautical) Short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
- (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball.
- (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
- (slang, vulgar, African American Vernacular English) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (slang) To vomit.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
- A female given name.
- (slang) A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of the Caterpillar brand.
- (informal) A Catalina flying boat.
- Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight.
- Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
- Acronym of common admission test.
- Acronym of civil air transport.
- Acronym of clear-air turbulence.
- (medicine) Acronym of computed axial tomography.
- Acronym of career aptitude test.
- Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
- Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
- Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
- Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
- Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
- Acronym of coital alignment technique.
- Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
- Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
- Acronym of crisis assessment team.
- Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
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