cat
Pronunciation
[change]- (US) (UK) enPR: kăt, IPA (key): /kæt/ or [kʰæt] or [kʰæt̚]
- (UK) IPA (key): /kat/
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Noun
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- (countable) A cat is a domestic animal often kept as a pet; it has whiskers and likes to chase mice.
- Our pet cat has just had kittens.
- Cats refers to the family of many different wild animals that are related to the domestic cat.
- A cat is a short-form for a catfish.
- (slang) A cat refers to a person who is a prostitute.
- A cat refers to a catamaran.
- (computing) The cat command, a Unix computer program used to read one or more files and output its contents.
- (military) Cat is a short-form for a catapult.
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- (nautical) If you cat an anchor, you lift it onto the cathead.
- (slang) If you cat, you vomit out something.
- (computing) When you cat, you apply the cat command on a Unix computer.
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