Word Finder - cats

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An animal of the family Felidae:

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• felid

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A person:

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A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.

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Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.

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A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").

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The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").

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The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.

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A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.

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A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.

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A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

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• Welsh cat
• tortoise

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To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

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To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

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To vomit.

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To go wandering at night.

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To gossip in a catty manner.

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A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

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To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

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To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

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A catapult.

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a carrier's bow cats

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Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)

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A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

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A twin-hulled ship or boat.

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A quarrelsome woman; a scold.

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A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.

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An old kind of fireship.

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A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

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I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.

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A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

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Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.

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Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth

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• catlet
• sheat
• sheatfish

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Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.

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Such a fake profile.

He had only a dog and some cats to keep him company.

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

She'd had cats before, but she'd never even owned a dog.

Such a determination is, however, extremely hazardous, even if it be admitted that the remains of cats from the rock-fissures of Gibraltar pertain to Felis ocreata.

The earliest written record of the introduction of domesticated cats into Great Britain dates from about A.D.

As to long-haired cats, there appear originally to have been two closely-allied strains, the Angora and the Persian, of which the former has been altogether replaced in western Europe by the latter.

Kiera almost missed it as she thought of where the cats had been placed.

It persisted, and she looked down, jumping to see one of several curious cats nudging her leg.

And please take some of these damn cats with you.

He closed his eyes and imagined himself to be one of the great cats he tracked in the forest.

This is confirmed by the employment in Byzantine Greek of the term thTros or ioirra to designate domesticated cats brought from Egypt.

If you do not already have cats, free kittens can be a great choice if you truly want a pet and you are willing to do the work if it turns out that your new kitten does have an illness or parasites.

We were all as nervous as cats at a dog pound.

The rest of their bodies were unlike cats.

Cats have four legs.

The cats … they're domesticated and really very nice.

Two of the cats, young and small enough to be kittens or perfectly sized adult tarantulas, detangled and darted from her pillow to the table.

She hid in the room most of the day to prevent any more run-ins with cats or models and to think.

If not for Romas, there would be no distant planet, spaceships, or tarantula-like cats!

Cats wrestled and played around them while D'Ryn's strict oversight of his and Gage's actions could not be shaken.

She rifled gingerly through the boxes, afraid of uncovering a stash of tarantula cats.

There were pets, though - cats and a little Cocker Spaniel that died two weeks after Mom died.

Anyway, I'll take a few cats with me when I find a spot.

He turned to see Yully in the hallway outside the study, holding one of the dozen cats they'd adopted.

She doesn't realize I have nine lives, like my cats.

Darian rose and dusted himself off, thoughts going first to his cats at the cabin and then to the possible guardsmen nearby.

I know you're there, lying in a tree like one of the great cats you track.

Sure, but the only thing in there is mud cats.

Possibly those domesticated cats with unusually short and bushy tails may have a larger share of European wild-cat blood; while, conversely, such wild cats as show long tails may have a cross of domesticated blood.

It is added that the remains of cats from Roman villas at Silchester and Dursley are probably referable to the domesticated breed.

Here are to be found yak, wild asses (kyang), several varieties of deer, musk deer and Tibetan antelope (Pantholops); also wild sheep (the bharal of the Himalaya), Ovis hodgsoni and possibly Ovis poli, together with wild goats, bears (in large numbers in the north-eastern districts), leopards, otter, wolves, wild cats, foxes, marmots, squirrels, monkeys and wild dogs.

See Jacob Cats, Complete Works (1790-1800, 19 vols.), later editions by van Vloten (Zwolle, 1858-1866; and at Schiedam, 1869-1870); Pigott, Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, &c., from Jacob Cats (1860); and P. C. Witsen Gejisbek, Het Leven en de Verdiensten;van Jacob Cats (1829).

The cats … they're domesticated and really very nice.

As a result, both kittens and cats grow up used to being handled, properly house trained and healthy.

I have never known cats to be so cuddly!

People who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to cat saliva or to cat dander.

I keep scrapbooks, love to read, love cats and cards and skiing, and am not particularly deft at driving or cooking.

Over the next three years, forty-two folded-ear cats were born, and with them a new breed.

All manner of breeds of dogs, cats, cows, and horses are bred in similar ways.

We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature.

Jaime adores cats, but hates dogs.

Kittens and adult cats love to scratch everything in sight.

Just like humans, cats have hormones too.

When I was a teen, one of our cats had kittens and her nipples never really looked swollen, yet she was able to easily nurse seven kittens.

LoveToKnow Cats spoke with "Chief Pet Surpriser" Cindy Pederson to learn more about Surprise A Pet and what they have to offer for both cats and dogs.

Constipation is fairly common in senior cats, but your cat's problem does seem to be chronic.

I've never seen my cats behave so territorially, and BeBe has never behaved so timidly.

Whenever possible, I prefer keeping cats inside rather than letting them roam outdoors.

Cats tend to seek out warmth, so the heat feature on a battery operated cat bed will draw your pet to it like a dish of cream.

While most cats enjoy the warmth, some cats really need it.