cat
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈkat/|[ˈkʰat]
美 /ˈkæt/|[ˈkʰæt]|[ˈkʰeə̯t]|/ˈkɛə̯t/|[ˈkʰɛə̯t]
英文释义
名词 n.
- A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
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Terms relating to animals.; A mammal of the family Felidae.
— 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.
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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.
— 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.
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Abbreviation of catapult.
— a carrier's bow cats
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
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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.
— “[…]—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.
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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.
— I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
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Abbreviation of catamaran.
— These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, but they're a real thrill on the open ocean riding ground swells.
- Abbreviation of category.
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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).
— civet cat polecat
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Abbreviation of catfish.
— 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.
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Terms relating to people.; An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
— But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
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Terms relating to people.; An ordinary person, especially a man; a fellow, a guy.
— 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
- Abbreviation of caterpillar.; Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- Abbreviation of caterpillar.; A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- Terms relating to people.; Synonym of itinerant worker.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
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Terms relating to people.; A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
— a jazz cat
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Terms relating to people.; Synonym of prostitute.
— "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.
- 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.
- Terms relating to things.; The game of trap ball; also (countable), the trap in that game.
- Terms relating to things.; The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
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Terms relating to things.; A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
— 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.
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Terms relating to things.; Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
— [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.
- Terms relating to things.; Now only in catboat: a sturdy merchant sailing vessel.
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Terms relating to things.; A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
— From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering cat as it came closer.
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Terms relating to things.; A vagina or vulva.
— "What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat."
动词 v.
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To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
— The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
- To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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To vomit.
— ‘He's going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away.
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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.
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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.
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Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
— The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
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Abyssinian cat
Aegean cat
Bengal cat
Bombay
Bombay cat
Burmese
Burmese cat
calico cat
Cyprus cat
fox cat
Himalayan cat
Maine Coon
Maine Coon cat
Maltese cat
Manx
Manx cat
Norwegian forest cat
Ocicat
Persian
Persian cat
Russian Blue
Russian Blue cat
Savannah cat
Serengeti cat
Siamese
Siamese cat
tabby
tabby cat
tortoiseshell cat
tuxedo cat
Van cat
wolf-cat
Yule cat
African golden cat
Andean cat
Andean mountain cat
Asian golden cat
Asiatic golden cat
Temminck's cat
bay cat
black-footed cat
bobcat
cat-a-mountain
cat o' mountain
Chinese desert cat
Chinese mountain cat
colocolo
pampas cat
Cymric cat
desert cat
false saber-toothed cat
false sabre-toothed cat
fisher cat
fishing cat
flat-headed cat
Geoffroy's cat
ghost cat
grass cat
hip cat
Iriomote cat
jungle cat
leopard cat
little spotted cat
oncilla
manul
Pallas' cat
Pallas cat
Pallas's cat
steppe cat
miner's cat
mountain cat
Pantanal cat
reed cat
roaring cat
rusty-spotted cat
sabercat
saber-toothed cat
sabrecat
sabre-toothed cat
sand cat
scimitar cat
scimitar-toothed cat
straw cat
swamp cat
tiger cat
catess
gib
he-cat
queen
ram-cat
she-cat
tom
tomcat
alley cat
barn cat
Cheshire cat
feral cat
farm cat
furbaby
purrito
wild cat
hairless
longhair
shorthair
bicolour
bluepoint
calico
chocolate point
colourpoint
lilac point
red point
seal point
torbie
tort
tortie
tortoiseshell
tuxedo
void
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?
cat grape
cat grass
catgut
cathair
cat-hammed
cat-harpin
cat-harping
cathead
cat-head
cathole
cat-hole
cat hole
cathood
cat hotel
cathouse
cat-house
cat house
cat ice
caticide
caticorn
cat in hell's chance
cat in the meal-tub
cat in the meal tub
cat in the pan
cat in the sack
catio
catitude
catkin
catkind
cat lady
catlap
cat-lap
catless
catlet
cat-lick
catlicker
catlike
cat-like
catling
cat litter
cat liver fluke
catloaf
catlore
catlover
catloving
catly
cat malogen
cat-man
cat man
cat meat
cat milk
catmill
cat mill
catmint
catnap
cat-nap
cat nap
catnapper
cat-napper
cat napper
catne
catness
catnip
cat-nip
cat nip
cat-o'-nine
cat-o-nine
cat-o'-nine-tails
catophile
cat organ
catperson
cat piss
catproof
cat-proof
cat-rigged
cat-salt
cat's cradle
catscratch
cat scratch
cat-scratch disease
cat scratch disease
cat-scratch fever
cat scratch fever
cat's eye
catsfoot
cat's-foot
catshank
catshark
catshit
cat-shy
catsicle
cat-sit
cat sit
catsitter
catskin
catskinner
catslaughter
catslide
cat's meat
cat's melody
cat's meow
cat snake
cat's pajamas
cat's pyjamas
cat's paw
catspeak
cat squirrel
catstail
cat state
catstep
catstick
cat-stick
catstitch
cat stretch
catsuit
cat's whisker
cat's whiskers
catswort
cattail
cat-tail sedge
cat tax
cattery
cat that ate the canary
cat that swallowed the canary
cat that got the cream
cat thyme
cattish
cattitude
catto
cat tongue
cat tower
cat train
cat-trap
cat tree
catty
cat unit
Caturday
catvertising
cat wagon
catwalk
cat-walk
catwalker
cat wheel
catwise
cat-witted
catwoman
catworm
catwort
channel cat
Cheshire cat
chessy cat
civet cat
civvy cat
community cat
conceited as a barber's cat
cool cat
coon cat
copycat
copy-cat
copy cat
cow cat
curiosity killed the cat
dead cat
dead-cat bounce
dead cat bounce
different breed of cat
dog and cat
dogs bark, cats meow
dogs have masters, cats have staff
dogs have owners, cats have staff
domestic cat
duck-bill cat
duckbill cat
duck-billed cat
enough to make a cat laugh
ewe cat
farm cat
fat-cat
fat cat
feral cat
fight like cat and dog
fight like cats and dogs
First Cat
flying cat
fraidy cat
fraidy-cat
gib-cat
gib cat
grandcat
great cat
grin like a Cheshire cat
guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl
he-cat
hellcat
hepcat
hep-cat
hep cat
herd cats
housecat
house cat
hunting cat
hydrophobia cat
Janus cat
Japan cat
Java cat
jungle cat
KatyCat
kick at the cat
Kilkenny cat
kit-cat
kitling
kitty-cat
kitty cat
kleptocat
lap cat
lead a cat-and-dog life
let the cat out
let the cat out of the bag
like a cat in a strange garret
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like a cat on hot bricks
like a scalded cat
like herding cats
like the cat that got the cream
lolcat
look like something the cat brought in
look like something the cat dragged in
look what the cat dragged in
look what the cat drug in
look what the cat's dragged in
look who the cat dragged in
make a cat laugh
marbled cat
m-cat
mercat
mudcat
multicat
musk cat
native cat
nervous as a cat
nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
noncat
not enough room to swing a cat
not while pussy's a cat
old cat
painted cat
phoby cat
play the cat and banjo with
podcat
poor as a barber's cat
pork-cat syndrome
pseudocat
pussy cat
put the cat among the pigeons
rain cats and dogs
ram-cat
reduced cat
reed cat
ringtail cat
ring-tail cat
ringtailed cat
ring-tailed cat
ring-tailed civet cat
robocat
saltcat
scaredy cat
scaredy-cat
Schrödinger's cat
sea cat
which way the cat jumps
set the cat among the pigeons
she-cat
shoot the cat
sick as a cat
singed cat
skin the cat
small cat
snowcat
so help me cat
spokescat
spoonbilled cat
stink-cat
swamp cat
tear a cat
tear-cat
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
there are many ways to skin a cat
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's more than one way to feed a cat
there's more than one way to fuck a cat
thin as a barber's cat
tip-cat
toddy cat
tomcat
tom-cat
tom cat
top cat
troll cat
Velcro cat
wait for the cat to jump
walk back the cat
walk the cat back
wampus cat
watchcat
werecat
when the cat's away the mice will play
whip the cat
wildcat
wild-cat
wild cat
wobbly cat syndrome
Yule cat
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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).
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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