Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
California:
- NZ:
- RP:
- Inland North:
- New England:
- some speakers:
- AU:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (obsolete) A jaguar.
- Certain insects:
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger beetle.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
Esimerkit
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't [...] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger, Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger
- Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Taivutusmuodot
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) female 3 crop.jpg
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
Tiger distribution as of 2022
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
Bengal tiger – This population inhabits the Indian subcontinent. The Bengal tiger has shorter fur than tigers further north, with a light tawny to orange-red colouration, and relatively long and narrow nostrils.