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Wolfes vs Wildcat - What's the difference?

wolfes | wildcat |

As nouns the difference between wolfes and wildcat

is that wolfes is plural of wolfe while wildcat is a species of cat, Felis silvestris.

As an adjective wildcat is

relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.

As a verb wildcat is

to drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

wolfes

English

Noun

(head)

    • wildcat

    English

    (wikipedia wildcat)

    Noun

  • A species of cat, Felis silvestris .
  • Any undomesticated species of cat.
  • * 2003 , CNN , April 24
    • Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats , nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards.
  • (lb) A person who acts like a wildcat, often sexually.
  • * 2002 , The Young and the Restless (TV, September 26)
    • Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
  • Industrial action carried out without authorization of trade unions; short for "wildcat strike" or "wildcat action".
    • A wildcat broke out after the management announced the plan for redundancy.
  • (lb) A caliber of ammunition derived by amending another type of cartridge and not made by commercial manufacturers.
  • (lb) An offensive formation characterized by a direct snap to a running back and an unbalanced offensive line.
  • (lb) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan.

    • Related terms

    * bobcat * cat * Scottish wild cat * wild cat * African wildcat * desert cat

    See also

    * (projectlink)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before.
  • Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
  • :* Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... (CNN , 2003.06.15)
  • (lb) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe.
  • * 1946 , Sigurd Jay Simonsen, The Mongrels
    • Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.

    Derived terms

    * wildcat strike

    Verb

    (wildcatt)
  • To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
    • You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.

    Derived terms

    * wildcatter