cat
Terms relating to animals.
Noun 4 meanings
Terms relating to animals.
Terms relating to things.
A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Abbreviation of caterpillar.
Verb 4 meanings
To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
To go wandering at night.
To gossip in a catty manner.
Adjective 1 meaning
Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
“The weather was cat, so they returned home early.”
Etymology
From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz, generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c.D., Martial), possibly from an Afroasiatic language.
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CAT at a glance
CAT has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + T 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,667 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with cat
All rhymes- WILDCAT13
- MUSCAT10
- COPYCAT16
- BOBCAT12
- PUSSYCAT15
- TOMCAT10
- HELLCAT12
- BEARCAT11
- MAGNIFICAT18
- POLECAT11
- DUCAT8
- SNOWCAT12
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