Horse vs Cat - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between horse and cat

is that horse is (lb) of, like, or closely associated with the animal equus ferus caballus or horse can be (uncountable|slang|dated) heroin while 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.

As verbs the difference between horse and cat

is that horse is to frolic, to act mischievously (usually followed by "around") while 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).

As an adjective cat is

(ireland|informal) terrible, disastrous.

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.

#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

#*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

#(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.

# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.

#(lb) A large person.

#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(lb) Equipment with legs.

#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.

#A frame with legs, used to support something.

Equipment.

#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

#A breastband for a leadsman.

#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

#A jackstay.

#:(Totten)

(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

*1962 , , 00:15:20

*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).

Usage notes

* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse

Synonyms

* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight

Hyponyms

* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion

Derived terms

* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horse

Verb

(hors)

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)

"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.

* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :

I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.

To provide with a horse.

* Shakespeare

being better horsed , outrode me

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

* 1888 , :

He horsed himself well.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

* 1608 , , II. i. 203:

Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

* S. Butler

the keeper, horsing a deer

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone

So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.

Derived terms

* horse around * unhorse

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.

Alright, mate, got any horse ?

Synonyms

* (heroin) H, smack

External links

* (wikipedia "horse")

Statistics

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words

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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