cat
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(verb) beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails |
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Related Words: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
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(noun) feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats |
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Synonyms: true cat |
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Related Words: Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, felid, feline, house cat, wildcat |
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(noun) a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" |
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Related Words: adult female, gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, woman |
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(noun) any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild |
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Synonyms: big cat |
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Related Words: Acinonyx jubatus, Felis onca, Panthera leo, Panthera onca, Panthera pardus, Panthera tigris, Panthera uncia, cheetah, chetah, felid, feline, jaguar, king of beasts, leopard, liger, lion, ounce, panther, saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth, snow leopard, tiger, tiglon, tigon |
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(noun) (trademark) a tractor that is driven by caterpillar tracks |
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Synonyms: Caterpillar |
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Related Words: tractor |
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(noun) a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" |
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Synonyms: cat-o'-nine-tails |
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Related Words: whip |
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(noun) an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" |
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Synonyms: guy, hombre |
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Related Words: adult male, man, sod |
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(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited" |
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Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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Related Words: egest, eliminate, excrete, gag, heave, pass |
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(noun) a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct an image |
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Synonyms: CT, computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography |
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Related Words: X-radiation, X-raying |
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