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}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0

cat [from `catenate' via {{Unix}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1. [techspeak] To spew
   an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause
   (syn. {blast}). 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an
   unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage:
   considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also {dd}, {BLT}.

   Among Unix fans, `cat(1)' 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, 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(1)' 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 two files. The name `cat' for the former operation is just
   as unintuitive as, say, LISP's {cdr}.

   Of such oppositions are {holy wars} made.... See also {UUOC}.


Source: The Jargon File

CAT
     Central Alaska Time [-1000] (TZ)
     
     
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CAT
     Common Authentication Technology (IETF, RFC 1511)
     
     
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CAT
     Computer Aided Technology (fair)
     
     
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CAT
     Computer Aided Telephony
     
     
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CAT
     Computer Aided Testing
     
     
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