1. cat - noun
· feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
Synonym(s): true_cat
2. cat - noun
· 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"
Synonym(s): guy, hombre, bozo, sod
Hypernym(s): man, adult_male
3. cat - noun
· a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
Hypernym(s): gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger, woman, adult_female
4. cat - noun
· 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"
Synonym(s): kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian_tea, African_tea
Hypernym(s): stimulant, stimulant_drug, excitant
5. cat - noun
· a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"
Synonym(s): cat-o%27-nine-tails
Hypernym(s): whip
6. cat - noun
· a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
Synonym(s): Caterpillar
Hypernym(s): tracked_vehicle
7. cat - noun
· any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
Synonym(s): big_cat
8. cat - noun
· 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
Synonym(s): computerized_tomography, computed_tomography, CT, computerized_axial_tomography, computed_axial_tomography, CAT
Hypernym(s): X-raying, X-radiation
9. cat - verb
· beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
Hypernym(s): flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
10. cat - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): vomit, vomit_up, purge, cast, sick, be_sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw_up
Hypernym(s): excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
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