Surgery vs Catty - What's the difference?
surgery | catty |
(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
(senseid)(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
A room or department where surgery is performed.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 51:
*:The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery .
(British) A doctor's consulting room.
(British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
(finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
(topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
(informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
* 2009 , Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8,
* 1699 , Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1 :
* 1847 , Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social , Volume 2, James Madden (publisher),
As nouns the difference between surgery and catty
is that surgery is (medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body while catty is a (unit of) weight used in china, generally standardized as half a kilogram.As an adjective catty is
(informal|of a person or remark) with subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.surgery
English
(wikipedia surgery)Noun
(surgeries)- Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
Synonyms
* (procedure) operation * (room or department) operating room, operating theatre, theatreDerived terms
* meatball surgery * remote surgery * surgeon * surgical * telesurgerycatty
English
Alternative forms
* cattieEtymology 1
; in sense “hostility”, see (m).Adjective
(er)- a catty smell
Synonyms
* (spiteful) bitchy (derogatory), cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spitefulSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) kati, from (etyl) languages, Mandarin:Noun
(head)page 94:
- To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
- 16 Mess'', make a ''Tale'', which here is 20 ''s''. ''English'', 5 ''Tale'' make a ''Bancal'', a weight so called, and 20 ''Bancal'' make a ''Catty , another weight.
page 124:
- Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty , according to size and quality.