What is the meaning of cat?

noun

• Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats.
  • synonyms: true cat
• An informal term for a youth or man.
  • usage: "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"
  • synonyms: guy, hombre, bozo
• A spiteful woman gossip.
  • usage: "what a cat she is"
• The leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant.
  • usage: "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
  • synonyms: kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea, African tea
• A whip with nine knotted cords.
  • usage: "British sailors feared the cat"
  • synonyms: cat-o'-nine-tails
• A large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work.
  • synonyms: Caterpillar
• Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild.
  • synonyms: big cat
• 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.
  • synonyms: computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography

verb

• Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
  • usage: "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
  • synonyms: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up