Overview of noun cat

The noun cat has 8 senses

• cat, true cat -- (feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats)


• guy, cat, hombre, bozo -- (an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll")


• cat -- (a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!")


• kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea -- (the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults")


• cat-o'-nine-tails, cat -- (a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat")


• Caterpillar, cat -- (a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work)


• big cat, cat -- (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)


• computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT -- (a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis)

Overview of verb cat

The verb cat has 2 senses

• cat -- (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)


• vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up -- (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night")