12 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cat \Cat\, n. [AS. cat; akin to D. & Dan. kat, Sw kett, Icel.
k["o]ttr, G. katze, kater, Ir Cat, W. cath, Armor. kaz, LL
catus, Bisc. catua, NGr. ?, ?, Russ. & Pol. cot, Turk. kedi,
Ar qitt; of unknown origin. CF {Ketten}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) An animal of various species of the genera
{Felis} and {Lynx}. The domestic cat is {Felis domestica}.
The European wild cat ({Felis catus}) is much larger than
the domestic cat. In the United States the name {wild cat}
is commonly applied to the bay lynx ({Lynx rufus}) See
{Wild cat}, and {Tiger cat}.
Note: The domestic cat includes many varieties named from
their place of origin or from some peculiarity; as the
{Angora cat}; the {Maltese cat}; the {Manx cat}.
Note: The word cat is also used to designate other animals,
from some fancied resemblance; as civet cat, fisher
cat, catbird, catfish shark, sea cat.
2. (Naut.)
a A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting
quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal
and timber trade
b A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the
cathead of a ship. --Totten.
3. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six
feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever
position in is placed.
4. An old game;
a The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is
played. See {Tipcat}.
c A game of ball, called according to the number of
batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc
5. A cat o' nine tails. See below.
{Angora cat}, {blind cat}, See under {Angora}, {Blind}.
{Black cat} the fisher. See under {Black}.
{Cat and dog}, like a cat and dog; quarrelsome; inharmonious.
``I am sure we have lived a cat and dog life of it.''
--Coleridge.
{Cat block} (Naut.), a heavy iron-strapped block with a large
hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to
the cathead.
{Cat hook} (Naut.), a strong hook attached to a cat block.
{Cat nap}, a very short sleep. [Colloq.]
{Cat o' nine tails}, an instrument of punishment consisting
of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a
handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare
back
{Cat's cradle}, game played, esp. by children, with a string
looped on the fingers so as to resemble small cradle. The
string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of
another, at each transfer with a change of form See
{Cratch}, {Cratch cradle}.
{To let the cat out of the bag}, to tell a secret, carelessly
or willfully. [Colloq.]
{Bush cat}, the serval. See {Serval}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cat \Cat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Catting}.] (Naut.)
To bring to the cathead; as to cat an anchor. See {Anchor}.
--Totten.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cat
n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable
to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: {true cat}]
2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the
guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: {guy}, {hombre}]
3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
4: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
cat" [syn: {cat-o'-nine-tails}]
5: (trademark) a tractor that is driven by caterpillar tracks
[syn: {Caterpillar}]
6: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
in the wild [syn: {big cat}]
7: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
rays and using a computer to construct an image [syn: {computed
tomography}, {CT}, {computerized axial tomography}, {computed
axial tomography}, {CAT}]
v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much the students vomited" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit
up}, {cast}, {sick}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge},
{regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck},
{upchuck}, {honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
cat [from `catenate' via {{Unix}} `cat(1)'] vt 1. [techspeak]
To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without
pause (syn. {blast}). 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data
at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also {dd}, {BLT}.
Among Unix fans, `cat(1)' is considered an excellent example of
user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without
such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files, and because it
does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with
any sort of data.
Among Unix haters, `cat(1)' is considered the {canonical} example
of _bad_ user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name
It is far more often used to {blast} a file to standard output than to
concatenate two files. The name `cat' for the former operation is just
as unintuitive as say LISP's {cdr}.
Of such oppositions are {holy wars} made.... See also {UUOC}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
CAT
Common Abstract Tree Language. R. Voeller & Uwe Schmidt U
Kiel, Germany 1983. Universal intermediate language, used by
Norsk Data in their family of compilers. "A Multi-Language
Compiler System with Automatically Generated Codegenerators
U. Schmidt et al SIGPLAN Notices 19(6):202-2121 (June 1984).
[{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
cat
(From "catenate") {Unix}'s command which copies one or
more entire files to the screen or some other output sink
without pause.
See also {dd}, {BLT}.
Among {Unix} fans, cat is considered an excellent example of
user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents
without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files
(the {pr} command can be used to do this), and because it does
not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works
with any sort of data.
Among Unix haters, cat is considered the {canonical} example
of *bad* user-interface design, because of its woefully
unobvious name It is far more often used to {blast} a file
to standard output than to concatenate files. The name cat"
for the former operation is just as unintuitive as say
LISP's {cdr}.
Of such oppositions are {holy wars} made
(1994-11-29)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
CAT
Central Alaska Time [-1000] TZ
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
CAT
Common Authentication Technology (IETF, RFC 1511)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
CAT
Computer Aided Technology (fair)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
CAT
Computer Aided Testing
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
CAT
Computer Aided Telephony
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be
kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
This is a dog,
This is a cat.
This is a frog,
This is a rat.
Run, dog, mew, cat.
Jump, frog, gnaw, rat.
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