Word Finder - cats

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An animal of the family Felidae:

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• felid

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A person:

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A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.

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Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.

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A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").

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The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").

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The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.

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A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.

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A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.

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A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

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• Welsh cat
• tortoise

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To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

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To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

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To vomit.

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To go wandering at night.

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To gossip in a catty manner.

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A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

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To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

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To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

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A catapult.

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a carrier's bow cats

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Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)

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A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

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A twin-hulled ship or boat.

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A quarrelsome woman; a scold.

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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.

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An old kind of fireship.

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A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

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I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.

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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.

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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.

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Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth

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• catlet
• sheat
• sheatfish

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Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.

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Such a fake profile.