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Substantiivi

1. Terms relating to animals.
2. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
3. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
4. (countable) An animal of the family Felidae.
5. A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
6. (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
7. Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, animal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
8. (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline .
9. (countable, figurative) Terms relating to people.
10. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
11. (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
12. (slang, dated) An ordinary person, especially a man; a fellow, a guy.
13. A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
14. (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
15. Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
16. (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
17. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of prostitute.
18. (by extension) Terms relating to things.
19. A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
20. (archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball; also (countable), the trap in that game.
21. (archaic, countable) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
22. A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
23. (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
24. (archaic) Now only in catboat: a sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
25. (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
26. (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.

Adjektiivi

1. (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

Verbi

1. (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
2. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
3. (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
4. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
5. (slang, now rare) To vomit.
6. To go wandering at night.
7. To gossip in a catty manner.