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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.
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#*: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.
(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.
(computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to an output device.
(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.
(Ireland, informal) terrible, disastrous.
A physician; a member of the medical]] profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are , DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
* Shakespeare
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
(A nickname for) a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
* Francis Bacon
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
* 2010 , Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology (page 172)
A fish, the friar skate.
To act as a medical doctor to.
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
To genetically alter an extant species.
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
As an adverb cat
is how much.As an adjective cat
is how much.As a noun doctor is
.cat
English
(wikipedia cat)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)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 alsoHyponyms
* (domestic species) housecat, malkin, kitten, mouser, tomcatDerived 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 playSee also
* Burmese * feline * kitten, kitty * Manx * Maine Coon * meow * mog, moggie, moggy * miaow * nine lives * Persian * Russian Blue * * Siamese * tabbyVerb
(catt)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of catamaran .Etymology 3
Abbreviation of catenate .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(catt)Etymology 4
Possibly a shortened form of catastrophic.Adjective
(-)- 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.References
doctor
English
Alternative forms
* doctour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor .
- By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
- one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
- the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
- the doctor , or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
- The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
Usage notes
* Doctor is capitalized when used as a title: *: Doctor SmithSynonyms
* (physician) doc (informal), family doctor, general practitioner, GP (UK), medic, physician, sawbones (slang), surgeon (who undertakes surgery ) * (veterinarian) vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeonDerived terms
See also'' Types of academic doctor ''below * an apple a day keeps the doctor away * Angelic Doctor * barefoot doctor * the Cape Doctor * cleaning-doctor * color-doctor, colour-doctor * bedoctor * clown doctor * company doctor * couch doctor * dedoctor * doc * doctoral * doctor-assisted suicide * doctor blade * doctor-box * doctordom * doctoress, doctress * doctor-fish * doctor-gum * doctorhead, doctorhood * doctorish * doctorishness * doctorism * doctorise, doctorize * doctorless * doctorly * Doctor Martens * Doctor of Divinity * Doctor of Law * Doctor of Letters * Doctor of Philosophy * Doctor of Science * Doctor of the Chair * Doctor of Veterinary Medicine * Doctors' Commons * doctor's curse * doctor's gum * doctor-shears * doctorship * doctor's orders * the Doctors of the Church * doctorspeak * doctor's stuff, doctor-stuff * Dr, * family doctor * flying doctor * the Fremantle Doctor * herb doctor * horse-doctor * just what the doctor ordered, what the doctor ordered * lint-doctor * mad-doctor * paradoctor * quack doctor * rain-doctor * saw doctor * school doctor * snake doctor * spin doctor * under-doctor * underdoctored * under the doctor * undoctor * undoctored * water-doctor * witch doctor * woman doctor * you are the doctor, you're the doctorVerb
(en verb)- Her children doctored her back to health.
- They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
- We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- ''Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored .
- To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.