cat
n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable
to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: {true cat}]
2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the
guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: {guy}, {hombre}]
3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
4: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
cat" [syn: {cat-o'-nine-tails}]
5: (trademark) a tractor that is driven by caterpillar tracks
[syn: {Caterpillar}]
6: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
in the wild [syn: {big cat}]
7: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
rays and using a computer to construct an image [syn: {computed
tomography}, {CT}, {computerized axial tomography}, {computed
axial tomography}, {CAT}]
v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit
up}, {cast}, {sick}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge},
{regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck},
{upchuck}, {honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]