meaning of cat

1. An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
2. A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
3. A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
4. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc. ), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
5. An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
6. A cat o nine tails. See below.
7. To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
8. See under Cat.
9. CAT 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 196:202-2121 June 1984. [Jargon File] cat From "catenate" Unixs 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, LISPs cdr. Of such oppositions are holy wars made.

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