Cat vs Beetle - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between cat and beetle

is that cat is how much while beetle is protruding, jutting, overhanging (as in beetle brows ).

As an adverb cat

is how much.

As a noun beetle is

any of numerous species of insect in the order coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest or beetle can be a type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

As a verb beetle is

to move away quickly, to scurry away or beetle can be to loom over; to extend or jut or beetle can be to beat with a heavy mallet.

cat

English

(wikipedia cat)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)

An animal of the family Felidae :

*2011 , Karl Kruszelnicki, Brain Food (ISBN 1466828129), page 53:

*: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.

#A domesticated subspecies (Felis silvestris catus ) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.

#*: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.

#Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, etc.

A catfish.

*1913 , (Willa Cather), :

*:She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat .

A person.

#(lb) A spiteful or angry woman.

#An enthusiast or player of jazz.

#*2008 , (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), "Hold on to Yourself":

#*:I turn on the radio / There's some cat on the saxophone / Laying down a litany of excuses

#(lb) A person (usually male).

#(lb) A prostitute.

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

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

*1839 , testimony by , recorded in the Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York (Assembly No. 335), page 44:

*:he used this '''cat''' on one other man, and then destroyed the ' cat wound with wire.

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

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

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

#The trap of the game of "trap and ball".

A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.

*1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (Holloway House Publishing):

*:"What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat ."

*2005 , Carolyn Chambers Sanders, Sins & Secrets (Hachette Digital):

*:As she came up, she tried to put her cat in his face for some licking.

*2007 , Franklin White, Money for Good (Simon and Schuster), page 64:

*:I had a notion to walk over to her, rip her apron off, sling her housecoat open and put my finger inside her cat to see if she was wet or freshly fucked because the dream I had earlier was beginning to really annoy me.

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

Synonyms

* ) * (any member of the family Felidae) felid * feline cat, a feline * pantherine cat, a pantherine * panther (i.e. tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard), (narrow sense) panther (i.e. black panther) * , "saber-toothed cat" (saber-tooth) * (domestic species) puss, pussy, malkin, kitty, pussy-cat, grimalkin * (man) bloke (qualifier), chap (British), cove (UK), dude, fellow, fella, guy * (spiteful woman) bitch * See also * See also

Hyponyms

* (domestic species) housecat, malkin, kitten, mouser, tomcat

Derived terms

* a cat may look at a king * all cats are grey in the dark, all cats are grey by night * alley cat * African golden cat * Andean cat * Asiatic golden cat * bay cat * black-footed cat * bobcat * barn cat * Burmese cat, Burmese * cat and mouse * cat box * cat food * cat that ate the canary, cat that swallowed the canary * cat in the meal-tub * cat in the sack * catbird * cat-block * cat-burglar * catcall * cat-eyed * caterwaul * catfish * cat-flap * cat-footed * cat got someone's tongue, cat got your tongue? * catgut * cat-harpin * cathead, cat-head * cat-house * cat-ice * catkin * cat-lap * cat-lick * catlike * catling * cat litter * catloaf * catly * catmint * cat-nap, cat nap, catnap * catnip * cat-o'-nine-tails * cat's cradle * cat's eye * cat's meat * cat's meow * cat's pajamas, the cat's pyjamas * cat's paw * cat scratch fever * cat state * cat's-tail * cat's whisker * cat's whiskers * cattish * catshit * cat-trap * catty * Caturday * catwalk, cat-walk * cat-witted * Chinese desert cat * copycat * curiosity killed the cat * domestic cat * fat cat * feral cat * fight like cats and dogs * fishing cat * flat-headed cat * Geoffroy's cat * housecat * it would make a cat laugh * jungle cat * lead a cat-and-dog life * leopard cat * let the cat out of the bag * like a cat in a strange garret * like a cat on hot bricks * like a cat on a hot tin roof * like herding cats * like the cat that got the cream * little spotted cat * lolcat * Maine Coon cat, Maine Coon * Manx cat, Manx * marbled cat * native cat * not enough room to swing a cat * Pallas cat * pampas cat * Persian cat, Persian * rain cats and dogs * reduced cat * Russian Blue cat, Russian Blue * rusty-spotted cat * sand cat * scaredy-cat * * Siamese cat, Siamese * spokescat * tabby cat, tabby * there's more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to skin a cat * tom cat, tomcat * wait for the cat to jump * wildcat, wild cat * when the cat's away the mice will play

Verb

(catt)

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

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

(slang) To vomit something.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of catamaran .

Noun

(en noun)

A catamaran.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of catenate .

Noun

(en noun)

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

Verb

(catt)

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

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

Etymology 4

Possibly a shortened form of catastrophic.

Adjective

(-)

(Ireland, informal) terrible, disastrous.

The weather was cat , so they returned home early.

Usage notes

This usage is common in speech but rarely appears in writing.

Etymology 5

Shortened from methcathinone.

Noun

(-)

Etymology 6

Shortened from catapult.

Noun

(en noun)

(military, naval) A catapult.

a carrier's bow cats

References

Anagrams

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beetle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bitle, bityl, bytylle, from (etyl) bitula, bitela, .

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.

(uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.

* 1944 , Queen's Nurses' Magazine (volumes 33-35, page 12)

Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.

Synonyms

* (insect) bug

Derived terms

* beetle-browed * Christmas beetle * click beetle * Colorado beetle * deathwatch beetle * dung beetle * huhu beetle * lady beetle * oil beetle * rhinoceros beetle * rove beetle * stag beetle * water beetle * whirligig beetle

Verb

To move away quickly, to scurry away.

He beetled off on his vacation.

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, year=2003 , author= , title=(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) , chapter=The Department of Mysteries , isbn=9780439358064 , page=766 , passage=In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …}}

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, year=2005 , author=(James Doss) , title=The Witch's Tongue , isbn=9780312991081 , page=178 , passage=Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.}}

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Possibly after , from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows .)

Verb

(beetl)

To loom over; to extend or jut.

The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.

* Shakespeare

To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

* Wordsworth

Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1858 , author=Dean of Pimlico , title=A Story for the New Year , date=January-March , volume=56 (volume 20 of the second series) , page=63 , magazine=Dublin University Magazine reprinted in Littell's Living Age , publisher=Littell, Son & Company citation , passage=I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest. }}

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, year=1941 , author=Chapman Miske , title=The Thing in the Moonlight , passage=Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.}}

Etymology 3

(etyl) betel, from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.

(Knight)

Verb

(beetl)

To beat with a heavy mallet.

To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.

to beetle cotton goods