Cats

n. feline, small furry mammal which is often kept as a pet; any of a number of large wild animals belonging the family felidae (lion, tiger, leopard, etc.); vicious or spiteful woman; (Slang) jazz player; (Slang) jazz fanatic; (Slang) guy, fellow

v. raise anchor (Nautical); vomit (Slang)

See also Cat (disambiguation) CATS, the acronym may refer to:CATS (software), an EDA software CATS (trading system), Computer Assisted Trading System, an automated trading system developed by the Toronto Stock ExchangeCharlotte Area Transit System, the regional transit authority in Charlotte, North CarolinaCredit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme - used by many UK universities to evaluate modular degrees.Critics' Awards for Theatre in ScotlandCitizens for an Alternative Tax System - a national tax reform public interest group in the United States.Computer Active Technology SuspensionCentral Autónoma de Trabajadores Salvadoreños, a trade union in El Salvador.CATS, a character from Zero Wing known for speaking the phrase All your base are belong to us.
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The cat (Felis silvestris catus), also known as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from other felines, is a small carnivorous species of nocturnal mammal that is often valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin. It has been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years.
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A cat is a domestic feline.Cat may refer to:Any member of Felidae, the cat family.cat, a top-level domaincat (Unix), the concatenate program in the Unix operating systemCat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red DwarfCat (role-playing game), an indie role-playing game about catsCat (kingdom), a Dark Ages Pictish kingdomCat (programming language), a functional stack-based programming language"Little Cat"/"Big Cat", Poker terms (see Non-standard poker hand#Cats and dogs)
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Noun
1. feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats
(synonym) true cat
(hypernym) feline, felid
(hyponym) domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
2. an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"
(synonym) guy, hombre, bozo
(hypernym) man, adult male
(hyponym) sod
3. a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
(hypernym) gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
4. the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
(synonym) kat, khat, qat, quat, Arabian tea, African tea
(hypernym) stimulant, stimulant drug
5. a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"
(synonym) cat-o'-nine-tails
(hypernym) whip
6. a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
(synonym) Caterpillar
(hypernym) tracked vehicle
(classification) trademark
7. any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
(synonym) big cat
(hypernym) feline, felid
(hyponym) leopard, Panthera pardus
(member-holonym) Felidae, family Felidae
Verb
1. beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
(hypernym) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
(derivation) cat-o'-nine-tails
2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
(synonym) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
(hypernym) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

Common Abstract Tree Language. R. Voeller & Uwe Schmidt, U Kiel, Germany 1983. Universal intermediate language, used by Norsk Data in their family of compilers. "A Multi-Language Compiler System with Automatically Generated Codegenerators, U. Schmidt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 19(6):202-2121 (June 1984).
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<tool> (From "catenate") Unix's command which copies one or more entire files to the screen or some other output sink without pause.
See also dd, BLT.
Among Unix fans, cat is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files (the pr command can be used to do this), and because it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with any sort of data.
Among Unix haters, cat is considered the canonical example of *bad* user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name. It is far more often used to blast a file to standard output than to concatenate files. The name "cat" for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr.
Of such oppositions are holy wars made.
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An acronym for Certificate of Accrual on Treasury Securities. Refers to a zero-coupon US Treasury issue that is sold at a deep discount from the face value and pays no interest during its lifetime. However, it returns the full face value at maturity.