cat

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈkat/|[ˈkʰat]    /ˈkæt/|[ˈkʰæt]|[ˈkʰeə̯t]|/ˈkɛə̯t/|[ˈkʰɛə̯t]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A street name of the drug methcathinone. slang
  2. A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
  3. Terms relating to animals.; A mammal of the family Felidae. countable
    — Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
  4. Terms relating to animals.; A mammal of the family Felidae.; A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. countable,uncountable
    — At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  5. Abbreviation of catapult. abbreviation,alt-of
    — a carrier's bow cats
  6. Abbreviation of catalytic converter. abbreviation,alt-of
  7. Terms relating to animals.; A mammal of the family Felidae.; A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.; The flesh of this animal eaten as food. uncountable
    — “[…]—Say, do you mind telling me if people around here really eat cats?” He felt a shiver in the pit of his stomach. “Do they eat cat?” said the little old man, profoundly shocked.
  8. Terms relating to animals.; A mammal of the family Felidae.; Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species. countable,uncountable
    — I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
  9. Abbreviation of catamaran. abbreviation,alt-of
    — These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells.
  10. Abbreviation of category. abbreviation,alt-of
  11. Terms relating to animals.; Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1, noun sense 1.1.1). broadly,countable
    — civet cat    polecat
  12. Abbreviation of catfish. abbreviation,alt-of
    — She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
  13. Terms relating to people.; An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman. countable,derogatory,figuratively,offensive,uncountable
    — But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
  14. Terms relating to people.; An ordinary person, especially a man; a fellow, a guy. countable,dated,figuratively,slang,uncountable
    — Now you've listened to my story / Here's the point that I have made / Cats were born to give chicks fever / Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
  15. Abbreviation of caterpillar.; Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) slang
  16. Abbreviation of caterpillar.; A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
  17. Terms relating to people.; Synonym of itinerant worker. US,countable,figuratively,slang,uncountable
  18. Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”. abbreviation,alt-of
  19. Terms relating to people.; A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music. countable,figuratively,slang,uncountable
    — a jazz cat
  20. Terms relating to people.; Synonym of prostitute. countable,figuratively,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — "Tell me. Willie said there was a cat in love with you. That isn't true, is it?" "Yes. It's true," Hudson corrects her, letting her think that by "cat" he means prostitute.
  21. Terms relating to things.; A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed. broadly,countable,uncountable
  22. Terms relating to things.; The game of trap ball; also (countable), the trap in that game. archaic,broadly,uncountable
  23. Terms relating to things.; The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat. archaic,broadly,countable
  24. Terms relating to things.; A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Overhaul down & hook the cat, haul taut. Walk away the cat. When up, pass the cat head stopper. Hook the fish in & fish the anchor.
  25. Terms relating to things.; Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails. abbreviation,alt-of,broadly,countable,ellipsis
    — [H]e whipped a black man for disobedience of his orders fifty lashes; and again whipped him with a cat, which he wound with wire, about the same number of stripes;[…] he used this cat on one other man, and then destroyed the cat wound with wire.
  26. Terms relating to things.; Now only in catboat: a sturdy merchant sailing vessel. archaic,broadly,countable,uncountable
  27. Terms relating to things.; A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse. broadly,countable,historical,uncountable
    — From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering cat as it came closer.
  28. Terms relating to things.; A vagina or vulva. broadly,countable,slang,uncountable,vulgar
    — "What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat."
动词 v.
  1. To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead. transitive
    — The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
  2. To apply the cat command to (one or more files). transitive
  3. To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully. slang
  4. To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. transitive
  5. To vomit. archaic,slang
    — ‘He's going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away.
  6. To go wandering at night.
    — "He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his catting about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.
  7. To gossip in a catty manner.
    — Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.
形容词 adj.
  1. Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous. Ireland,colloquial,not-comparable
    — The weather was cat, so they returned home early.

词形变化

cats plural catte alternative cats present,singular,third-person catting participle,present catted participle,past catted past cats plural cats present,singular,third-person catting participle,present catted participle,past catted past cats plural

词汇关系

衍生词
a cat can look at a king a cat in gloves catches no mice a cat in hell's chance a cat may look at a king all cats are grey by night all cats are grey in the dark alley cat anticat Arnold's cat map ball-tailed cat barn cat bearcat bear cat bell the cat big cat black cat blue cat cabbit cactus cat care killed a cat care killed the cat cat activation noise cataholic cat and dog cat and dog life cat and kitten sneaking cat-and-mouse cat and mouse cat around catbath cat bear catbird cat-bird cat bird cat-block catblogging cat box catboy cat-burglar cat burglar cat-burglarize cat burglary cat-burgle catbutt cat cafe catcall cat-call cat calling the kettle black cat-castle catcatcher catclaw cat-claw cat containment cat-cow cat cracker cat distribution system catdom cat door caterole caterwaul catess cat-eye cat-eyed cat eye syndrome catface cat factory catfall cat farm catfight cat fight catfish catfit cat-flap cat flap cat food cat-foot cat-footed catfucker cat-fur cat fur catgender catgirl cat-girl cat girl cat got someone's tongue cat got your tongue? 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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kattuz
Proto-West Germanic *kattu
Old English catt
Middle English cat
English cat
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. 75 A.D., Martial), possibly from an Afroasiatic language. Doublet of gato.
A loan from Afro-Asiatic into European languages would roughly match how the animal itself spread, as genetic studies suggest domestic cats began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic, especially after they became popular and domesticated in Egypt 4000 years ago; they were found in Greece and Italy later, 2500 years ago. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (kadīs, “kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa), which has long been thought to be non-Arabic in origin. Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t, but John Huehnergard says "the source … was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."
It may be a wanderword. Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).
Cognates
Related to Scots cat (“cat”), North Frisian kaat, kaot, Kat, kåt (“cat”), Saterland Frisian Kat (“cat”), West Frisian kat (“cat”), Alemannic German Chats, Chatz, chatza, chatzu, chatzò, chàzzà, Kàtz (“cat”), Bavarian ckozza, Katz, khoze, kòtze (“cat”), Cimbrian katze, khatz, khatza (“cat”), Dutch kat (“cat”), German Katze (“cat”), German Low German Katt (“cat”), Luxembourgish Kaz (“cat”), Mòcheno kòtz (“cat”), Yiddish קאַץ (kats, “cat”), Danish kat (“cat”), Faroese køttur (“cat”), Icelandic köttur (“cat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish katt (“cat”), Latin cattus, catus (“cat”), Aromanian cãtush (“cat”), French chat (“cat”), Occitan, Norman cat (“cat”), Portuguese, Spanish gato (“cat”), Breton kaz, kazh (“cat”), Cornish cath, kath (“cat”), Irish cat, cut (“cat”), Scottish Gaelic cat (“cat”), Welsh cath (“cat”), as well as Ancient Greek κάτα (káta), κάττα (kátta, “cat”), Greek γάτα (gáta, “cat”), Turkish kedi (“cat”), and from the same ultimate source Belarusian, Russian кот (kot, “cat”), Ukrainian кіт (kit, “cat”), Polish kot (“cat”), Kashubian kòt (“cat”), Latvian kaķis (“cat”), Lithuanian katė (“cat”), and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu, “cat”), Basque katu (“cat”), Georgian კატა (ḳaṭa, “cat”), Classical Syriac ܩܛܐ, ܩܛܘ (“cat”), Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa, “cat”) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs, “cat”) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
词源 2
From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
词源 3
Abbreviations.
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