cats
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Definitions ofcats
- An animal of the family Felidae:
Synonyms: felid
- A person:
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
- The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
- The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
- A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
Synonyms: "Welsh cat", tortoise
- To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- To vomit.
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- 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.
- A catapult.
Example: "a carrier's bow cats"
- Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- A twin-hulled ship or boat.
- A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- 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.
- An old kind of fireship.
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
Example: "I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel."
- 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.
Example: "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."
- Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- Such a fake profile.
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