Below, we have different definitions or meanings of the word cat. These different definitions are grouped based on the different parts of speech. You will also find examples for every definition if available
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
An animal of the family Felidae:
A person:
A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
Verb: Verbs are action words that describe actions or states.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
To vomit.
To go wandering at night.
To gossip in a catty manner.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
A twin-hulled ship or boat.
A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
An old kind of fireship.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Verb: Verbs are action words that describe actions or states.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Adjective: Adjectives modify nouns to provide more information about them.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
Terrible, disastrous.
The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
A street name of the drug methcathinone.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
A catapult.
a carrier's bow cats
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
Such a fake profile.
Noun: Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.
UK: /kat/
US: /kæt/
Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms: saber-tooth, saber-toothed cat, feline, feline cat, pantherine, pantherine cat, Caniformia, carnivoran, cat-like, feliform, feloid, jaguar, leopard, lion, panther, tiger, Welsh cat, tortoise, felid
Synonyms: twinhull
Synonyms: class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
Synonyms: catlet, sheat, sheatfish