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cat

verb

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noun

  1. domesticated subspecies of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet
  2. animal of the family Felidae
  3. a person, especially a man
  4. a devotee of jazz
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkat/ / [ˈkʰat] / /ˈkæt/

adj

Etymology: Abbreviations.

  1. Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

    The weather was cat, so they returned home early.

name

  1. Centre for Alternative Technology
  2. Counter Assault Team
  3. Citizens Area Transit
  4. Canadian Achievement Tests
  5. Cambridge Antibody Technology
  6. Abbreviation of Caterpillar Inc..

    Caterpillar (CAT)and Boston Consulting Group said their top executives would go but the companies are monitoring the situation closely.

noun

  1. Acronym of Central Atlas Tamazight.
  2. Acronym of computer-adaptive test.
  3. Acronym of common admission test.
  4. Acronym of civil air transport.
  5. Acronym of clear-air turbulence.
  6. Acronym of computed axial tomography.
  7. Acronym of career aptitude test.
  8. Acronym of computer-assisted/aided translation.
  9. Acronym of credit authorization terminal.
  10. Acronym of citizenship advancement training.
  11. Acronym of computer-aided transceiver.
  12. Acronym of cosmic anisotropy telescope.
  13. Acronym of coital alignment technique.
  14. Acronym of conidial anastomosis tube.
  15. Acronym of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
  16. Acronym of crisis assessment team.
  17. Acronym of Consumer Acceptance of Technology.

verb

Etymology: From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.

  1. To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
  2. To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.