3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cat \Cat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Catted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Catting}.] (Naut.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See {Anchor}. --Totten. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: catted See {cat} From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: cat n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: {true cat}] 2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: {guy}, {hombre}, {bozo}] 3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" 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" [syn: {kat}, {khat}, {qat}, {quat}, {Arabian tea}, {African tea}] 5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" [syn: {cat-o'-nine-tails}] 6: a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work [syn: {Caterpillar}] 7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild [syn: {big cat}] 8: 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 [syn: {computerized tomography}, {computed tomography}, {CT}, {computerized axial tomography}, {computed axial tomography}] v 1: beat with a 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" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast}, {sick}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {regurgitate}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}] [also: {catting}, {catted}]
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