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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.
#*
#*: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.
Having green as its color.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
(label) Of people.
# Sickly, unwell.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Inexperienced.
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# or unaware of obvious facts.
# Overcome with envy.
Environmentally friendly.
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, title= (label) Of things.
# (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
# (label) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”
# (label) Not fully roasted; half raw.
#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
# Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
# Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
(label) High or too high in acidity.
Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
(Philippines) describing something with a sexual connotation
(particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
(politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
(golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
(British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
* Milton
(mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
* Alexander Pope
Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
(British, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
(US, uncountable) Money.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
* Thomson
To become or grow green in colour.
To add greenspaces to (a town).
To become environmentally aware.
To make (something) environmentally friendly.
As nouns the difference between cat and green
is that cat is an animal of the family felidae : or cat can be a catamaran or cat can be (computing) a program and command in unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to an output device or cat can be or cat can be (military|naval) a catapult while green is the colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.As verbs the difference between cat and green
is that cat is (nautical) to hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead or cat can be (computing) to apply the cat command to (one or more files) while green is to make (something) green, to turn (something) green.As adjectives the difference between cat and green
is that cat is (ireland|informal) terrible, disastrous while green is having green as its color.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
green
English
Adjective
(er)- to look so green and pale
- I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.
Urban canopies let nature bloom, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- (Shakespeare)
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as againstthe greenest usurpation
Synonyms
* raw, unprocessed, unsmoked * tart * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having green as its colour) nongreen, ungreen * processed, smoked, spiced * cloy, sweetDerived terms
(green) * blue-green * * Board of Green Cloth * common green lacewing * engreen * evergreen * go green * the grass is always greener on the other side * greater green leafbird * great green macaw * green accounting * green acres * greenage * green alga * green and pale, green and wan * green apron * green about the gills, green around the gills * green arrow * green ash * green audit * greenback * green-backed firecrown * green bag, green-bag * green baize * green ban * green bass * (Green Bay) * green bean * green-bed * (Greenbelt) * green belt, greenbelt * Green Beret * green bice * green-bind * green bird * green-black * green blights * green-blue * green-bone, greenbone * green-bottle, greenbottle, greenbottle fly * green-book * green box * green brass * green brier, greenbrier * green broom * green bug * green burial * green butter * green card * green-charge * green cheese * green Christmas * green cloth, greencloth * green coat, green-coat * green-cod * green coffer * green con * green copperas * green cormorant * green corn * green crab * green crop * green cross * Green Cross Code * green curtain * green diallage * green dolphin * green dragon * green drake * green drops * green earth * green ebony * greened * green eel * green endive * green energy * greener * Green Erin * greenery * greenery-yallery * green-eyed * green fallow * green fat * greenfeed * green fever * green field, greenfield, green fields * green fillet * greenfinch * green fingers * green-finned * green fire * green-fish * greenflag * green flash * green fluorescent protein * green-fly, greenfly * green frog * green fund * greengage * green gate * green gill * green-gill, green-gilled * green ginger * green gland * green glass * Green Goddess * green gold * green-gold * green-golden * green goods * green goose * green gown * green grasshopper * green-gray, green-grey * green grosbeak * green hand, greenhand * green hastings * green head, greenhead * greenheart * green heron * greenhew * green hide, green-hide, greenhide * greenhorn * greenie * green in earth * greening * green investing * green iodide of mercury * green iron ore * greenish * the Green Island, the Green Isle * Green Jackets * green jaundice * green-jerkin * green jersey * greenkin * green label * green labeling, green labelling * Greenland * green laver * green lead ore * green leaf lettuce * green leech * green leek, green-leek, greek-leek parrot * greenlet * green light * Green Line * greenling * green linnet * Green Linnets * green lizard * green looper * green-louse * greenly * * green mamba * green man * greenman * greenmans * green manure * green marble * greenmarket * green mineral * green monkey * (Green Mountains) * Green Mountain State * green mustard * greenness * green oak * green old age * green onion * green out * green oyster * green paper * Green Party * green party * (Greenpeace) * green-peak, green-peek * green pea * green pepper * green peril * green pigeon * green-plot * green plover * green-pollack * green pound * green racer * green ray * green revolution * green ribbon * (Green River) * Green River Ordinance * green road * green rod * green room, green-room, greenroom * green rose * green rushes * green salad * green salt of Magnus * green-salted * green sand * green-sand, greensand * green sauce, greensauce * green sea * green-seal * green seaweed * greenshank * green-shaving * greenship * greenshoe option * green sickness, green-sickness, greensickness * green-side * green-sleeves * (Greensleeves) * green slip * green sloke * green snake * green snow * green soap * greensome * green-soil * green space * greenspeak * green-staff * greenstick fracture * green stocks * green-stone, greenstone * greenstrip * Green Striper * green-stuff, greenstuff * green swallow * greensward * green syrup * green table * green-tail * greentailing * green tar * green tea * greenth * green thumb * green top * green-tree ant * green turtle * green 'un * green vitriol * greenware * green water * greenwash * greenwashing * green wax, greenwax * green way, greenway * greenweed * green-wellie * green-wing * green-winged * green withe * green with envy * greenwood * green woodpecker * green-wort * greeny * green-yard, greenyard * green-yellow * in green * in the green tree * keep the bones green * lesser green leafbird * little green man * not as green as one is cabbage-looking * red-and-green macaw * sengreen * silgreen, sillgreen * something green in one's eye * still-green * ungreen * verigreen * yellow-greenReferences
Noun
(wikipedia green) (en noun)- o'er the smooth enamelled green
- In that soft season when descending showers / Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers.
Synonyms
* (environmentalist) environmentalist, greenbody greenie (Australian) treehugger * (green vegetables) veg (informal) * (putting green) putting green * (surface on which bowls is played) bowling greenDerived terms
* advanced green * almond green, almond-green * antigreen * apple green, apple-green * ay-green * Berlin green * Bermuda green, Bermuda-green * bice green * bladder green, bladder-green * bleaching green, bleaching-green * bottle green, bottle-green * bowling green, bowling-green * bronze green, bronze-green * Brunswick green Brunswick-green * cedar green, cedar-green * celandine green, celandine-green * chrome green, chrome-green * crown green * deep green, deep-green * emerald green, emerald-green * fair green * forest green, forest-green * gaudy-green * grape green, grape-green * grass green, grass-green * green-blind * green fee, greens fee * greengrocer * greenhouse * green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper * greenless * greenside * greensman * greenwash * green with envy * Gretna Green * Guignet's green * Hungary green, Hungary-green * hunter green, hunter's green * in the green * Jack-in-the-green * jade green, jade-green * jungle green, jungle-green * kelly green, kelly-green * Kendal green * Kensal Green * leek green, leek-green * lettuce green, lettuce-green * light green, light-green * lime green, lime-green * Lincoln green * little green man * long green * Marina green, Marina-green * mineral green, mineral-green * mitis green * Monastral Green * mondegreen * moss green, moss-green * mountain green, mountain-green * Nile green, Nile-green * olive green, olive-green * on the green * overgreen * Paris green * parrot green, parrot-green * pea green, pea-green * pistachio green, pistachio-green * Prussian green, Prussian-green * putting green, putting-green * red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness * regreen * RGB * rifle-green * rub of the green, rub on the green * Russian green, Russian-green * sage-green * sap-green * Saxon green, Saxon-green * Scheele's green * schweinfurt green * sea green, sea-green * see any green in one's eye * Spanish green, Spanish-green * spring green * town green * turquoise green, turquoise-green * Veronese green, Veronese-green * Vienna green * village green * vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-greenVerb
(en verb)- Great spring before greened all the year.
- (Tennyson)
- By greening slope and singing flood. — Whittier.