American English pronunciation
How to pronounce cat
IPA transcription: ['kæt]
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Noun
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an informal term for a youth or man
“a nice guy”
“the guy's only doing it for some doll”
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feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
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a spiteful woman gossip
“what a cat she is!”
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the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
“in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults”
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a whip with nine knotted cords
“British sailors feared the cat”
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a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
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any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
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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
Verb
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eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
“He purged continuously”
“The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night”
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beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
Usage examples
- Italics indicate loan spells.
- A rod is used to catch pink salmon.
- Subsequently, the word 'cateran' came to refer to those Highland bandits or malefactors.
- However, the production of sparkling Asti from Moscato Bianco is a relatively recent product.
- It is located in the centre of Tralee.
- "Specialists call such a boom in returns a humanitarian catastrophe," she added.
- Television can make you dumb, but it can also be good education.
- He is self-educated, having dropped out of high school in the ninth grade.
- Radicals like Joseph Priestley pursued scientific investigation while advocating democracy.
- Born in Toledo, Kaczala graduated from Toledo's Central Catholic High School.