cats

/kรฆts/

IPA: /K AE1 T S/

noun
  1. 1

    An animal of the family Felidae:

    syn:felid
  2. 2

    A person:

  3. 3

    A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.

  4. 4

    Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.

  5. 5

    A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").

  6. 6

    The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").

  7. 7

    The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.

  8. 8

    A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.

  9. 9

    A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.

  10. 10

    A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

verb
  1. 1

    To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

  2. 2

    To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

  3. 3

    To vomit.

  4. 4

    To go wandering at night.

  5. 5

    To gossip in a catty manner.

noun
  1. 1

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

verb
  1. 1

    To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

  2. 2

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

noun
  1. 1

    A catapult.

    โ€œa carrier's bow catsโ€

noun
  1. 1

    Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)

  2. 2

    A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

noun
  1. 1

    A twin-hulled ship or boat.

  2. 2

    A quarrelsome woman; a scold.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    An old kind of fireship.

Synonyms

noun
  1. 1

    A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

    โ€œI wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.โ€

  2. 2

    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.

    โ€œJust 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.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth

noun
  1. 1

    Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.

  2. 2

    Such a fake profile.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catamaran, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/category, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catfish, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cats