Beast vs Wildcat - What's the difference?
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Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
(slang) A large and impressive automobile.
(slang, prisons) A sex offender.
* 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
* 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
* 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969,
* 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467,
* 2011 , :
(British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
(slang) great; excellent; powerful
* 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
* 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
A species of cat, Felis silvestris .
Any undomesticated species of cat.
* 2003 , CNN , April 24
(lb) A person who acts like a wildcat, often sexually.
* 2002 , The Young and the Restless (TV, September 26)
Industrial action carried out without authorization of trade unions; short for "wildcat strike" or "wildcat action".
(lb) A caliber of ammunition derived by amending another type of cartridge and not made by commercial manufacturers.
(lb) An offensive formation characterized by a direct snap to a running back and an unbalanced offensive line.
(lb) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan.
Relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.
Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
:* Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... (CNN , 2003.06.15)
(lb) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe.
* 1946 , Sigurd Jay Simonsen, The Mongrels
To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
As a proper noun beast
is (biblical) a figure in the book of revelation (apocalypse), often identified with satan or the antichrist.As a noun wildcat is
a species of cat, felis silvestris .As an adjective wildcat is
relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.As a verb wildcat is
to drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.beast
English
(wikipedia beast)Noun
(en noun)- Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
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- Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
- For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
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- Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
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- He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
- And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time
Derived terms
* beastly * saddle beastSee also
* belluine (suppletive adjective)Derived terms
* beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beastVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(en adjective)- There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
- Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .
Anagrams
*wildcat
English
(wikipedia wildcat)Noun
- Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats , nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards.
- Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
- A wildcat broke out after the management announced the plan for redundancy.
See also
* (projectlink)Adjective
(-)- Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.
Derived terms
* wildcat strikeVerb
(wildcatt)- You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.