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cat

Katze

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Englisch > Deutsch
cat
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Zoologie: die Katze
[1] Have you got a cat?
Hast du eine Katze?
Englisch > Englisch
cat
1. subst. An animal of the family Felidae:
2. subst. A domesticated subspecies (Felis silvestris catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
3. subst. Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, etc.
4. subst. A person:
5. subst. (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman.
6. subst. An enthusiast or player of jazz.
7. subst. (slang) A person (usually male).
8. subst. (slang) A prostitute.
9. subst. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
10. subst. (chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
11. subst. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
12. subst. (archaic) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
13. subst. The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
14. subst. (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
15. subst. (slang) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
16. subst. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
17. subst. (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
18. v. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
19. v. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
20. v. (slang) To vomit something.
21. subst. A catamaran.
22. subst. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
23. v. (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
24. v. (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
25. adj. (Ireland, informal) Terrible, disastrous.
The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
26. subst. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
27. subst. (military, naval) A catapult.
a carrier's bow cats
28. subst. abbreviation of category
29. subst. A catfish.
30. subst. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
31. subst. A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
Deutsch > Englisch
Katze
1. n-f. house cat, Felis silvestris catus
2. n-f. (specifically) female house cat
3. n-f. cat (any member of the genus Felis)
4. n-f. (constellation, historic) the obsolete constellation Felis