CATname

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  Centre for Alternative Technology

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  Counter Assault Team

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  Citizens Area Transit

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  Canadian Achievement Tests

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  Cambridge Antibody Technology

Catname詞源 1/kæt/

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  A diminutive of the female given names Catherine or Caitlin.

Catnoun詞源 2/kæt/

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  slangA piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe or bulldozer, of the Caterpillar brand. (Occasionally, loosely, any big yellow machine of the type.)

  • Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.

Catnoun詞源 3/kæt/

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  informalA Catalina flying boat.

catnoun詞源 1/ˈkæt/

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  Terms relating to animals.

  • Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
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  Terms relating to animals.

  • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • A major genetic survey of nearly 1,000 feral and domestic cats has revealed that every breed of household cat alive today originates from just five lineages which lived alongside ancient settlers in the Fertile Crescent, an area stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.
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  Terms relating to animals.

  • “[…]—Say, do you mind telling me if people around here really eat cats?” He felt a shiver in the pit of his stomach. “Do they eat cat?” said the little old man, profoundly shocked.
  • You do not eat cat simply for the thrill of eating cat. You eat cat because cats have a lively jingshen, or spirit, and thus by eating the animal you will improve your spirits.
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  Terms relating to animals.

  • I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
  • If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty cat.
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  Terms relating to animals.

  • civet cat    polecat
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  offensivederogatoryTerms relating to people.

  • But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
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  datedslangTerms relating to people.

  • Now you've listened to my story / Here's the point that I have made / Cats were born to give chicks fever / Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
  • Didn't know what time it was the lights were low / I leaned back on my radio / Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll 'lotta soul, he said
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  slangTerms relating to people.

catverb詞源 1/ˈkæt/

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

  • The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
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  nauticaltransportTo flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

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  archaicslangTo vomit.

  • ‘He's going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away.
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  To go wandering at night.

  • "He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his catting about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.
  • This was going to be my first try at catting out. I went looking for somebody to cat with me.
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  To gossip in a catty manner.

  • Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.
  • They smiled, touched, rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows, as they relived the audition and catted about some of their competition.

catnoun詞源 2/ˈkæt/

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

catverb詞源 2/ˈkæt/

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

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

catnoun詞源 3/ˈkæt/

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  slangA street name of the drug methcathinone.

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  slangAbbreviation of caterpillar.

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  Abbreviation of caterpillar.

catadj詞源 3/ˈkæt/

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  Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

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

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Central Atlas Tamazight
• computer-adaptive test
• common admission test
• civil air transport
• clear-air turbulence
• computed axial tomography
• career aptitude test
• computer-assisted/aided translation
• credit authorization terminal
• citizenship advancement training
• computer-aided transceiver
• cosmic anisotropy telescope
• coital alignment technique
• conidial anastomosis tube
• chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
• crisis assessment team
• Consumer Acceptance of Technology
• Caterpillar Inc
• cat-o'-nine-tails
• catapult
• catalytic converter
• catamaran
• category
• catfish