cat /kæt/
1. feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
2. an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink"
synset: guy, cat, hombre, bozo, sod
3. a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
synset: cat
4. the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
synset: kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian_tea, African_tea
5. a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"
synset: cat-o'-nine-tails, cat
6. a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
synset: Caterpillar, cat
7. any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
8. a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis
synset: computerized_tomography, computed_tomography, CT, computerized_axial_tomography, computed_axial_tomography, CAT
1. beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
synset: cat
2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
synset: vomit, vomit_up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be_sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw_up
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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