Definition of "cat" in 英语

noun

1. Terms relating to animals.

2. (countable, figurative) Terms relating to people.

3. (by extension) Terms relating to things.

4. Terms relating to things.

verb

1. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

2. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

3. (slang, now rare) To vomit.

4. To go wandering at night.

5. To gossip in a catty manner.

noun

1. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

2. (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

noun

1. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.

2. Abbreviation of catapult.

   • a carrier's bow cats

3. Abbreviation of catalytic converter.

4. Abbreviation of catamaran.

5. Abbreviation of category.

6. Abbreviation of catfish.

7. Abbreviation of caterpillar.

8. Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.

adjective

1. (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

   • The weather was cat, so they returned home early.