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"CATS" is a plural of: cat. |
Date "CATS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Census | (Control and Tracking System) A menu driven database system that controls and tracks work units of address registers or questionnaires through processing. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a cat, denotes ill luck, if you do not succeed in killing it or driving it from your sight. If the cat attacks you, you will have enemies who will go to any extreme to blacken your reputation and to cause you loss of property. But if you succeed in banishing it, you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame. If you meet a thin, mean and dirty-looking cat, you will have bad news from the absent. Some friend lies at death's door; but if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover after a long and lingering sickness. To hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using all the words and work at his command to do you harm. To dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching from you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making. If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be influenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others. To dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which, while seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and loss of wealth. When a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work, as his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard of dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he undersells others and still succeeds. To dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies the beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy is being entertained by you with the intention of using him to find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself; uneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all knowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged, concerning your private life, may become public. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A cosmopolitan family of carnivorous mammals, including the true cats. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Cats Mistress Tofts, the singer, left legacies at death to twenty cats. "Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats, Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats." Peter Pindar: Old Simon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: The acronym was created some time within the past three years, by a University of Oregon union activist. Definition: C.A.T. stands for Contract Action Team, a group of activist union members who donate their time and energy to securing a better contract. CATS are employees on the C.A.T. Context: This term would be used by union executive committee members during a time when information needs to be distributed among union members, particularly in the months prior to bargaining, often in union newsletters. Social Source: SEIU-OPEU Local 085 Union Members. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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This article deals with the domestic cat. For other species of the cat family, please see Felidae.
Cat Typical short-haired domestic cat Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Felis Species: silvestris Subspecies: catus The cat, Felis silvestris catus, is a small feline carnivore that has been domesticated for several millennia. The term cat most commonly means a domestic cat, although it can also be used to refer to the other members of the feline family. For example lions, tigers, jaguars and the like are often referred to as the big cats.
Physiology
The physiology of cats is fairly consistent, especially when compared to the other most common domestic animal, the dog. Cats typically weigh somewhere in the range of 5 to 7 kg (10 to 15 pounds), rarely over 9 kg (20 pounds). In captivity cats typically live 10 to 15 years, though the oldest known cat lived to age 34. Domestic cats, on average, live longer if they are not permitted to go outdoors, and if they are spayed or neutered.
Cats (including domesticated cats) have a scent organ in the roof of their mouths called the vomeronasal, or Jacobson's Organ. When a cat wrinkles its muzzle, raises its chin, and lets its tongue hang a bit, it is opening the passage to the vomeronasal. This is called the flehman response.
The wild ancestor of the cat is believed to have been from a desert climate, and cats display behaviours associated with such creatures. They enjoy heat and sunning themselves. Their feces are usually very dry and cats prefer to bury them in sandy places. They are able to stay unmoving in one place for long periods of time, usually when observing prey. In North Africa there are still small wildcats that are probably the ancestors of todays domesticated breeds.
Baby cats are known as kittens, which is the same term used for baby squirrels.
The sound a cat makes is written "meow" in American English, "miaow" in British English and "mjá" in icelandic. Cats can also produce a purring noise, in the presence of their humans, that is immensely pleasurable to many humans. Some cats growl when they see other cats on their territory.
History and mythology
The cat was first domesticated by the Ancient Egyptians in 4000 BC, to keep mice and rats away from their grain stores. They regarded cats as embodiments of the goddess Bast; the penalty for killing a cat was death, and when a cat died it was sometimes mummified in the same way as a human. In the Middle Ages, though, cats were often thought to be witches' familiars. Today some people believe that white cats are unlucky, or that it is unlucky if a black cat crosses your path, but others believe that black cats are lucky.
The Cat is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Vietnamese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Domestication
Cats are kept for companionship as pets, and to hunt mice and rats. Farms often have dozens of cats, living semi-wild in the barns. Hunting in the barns and the fields, they kill and eat rodents that would otherwise eat large parts of the grain crop. (Many pet cats successfully hunt and kill mice, birds and fish by instinct, but may not eat their prey.) Feral cats may live alone or in large groups with communal nurseries, depending on resource availability.
Like many other domesticated animals, cats lived in a mutualistic arrangement with humans. The benefit of removing rats and mice from humans' food stores outweighed the cost of allowing a formerly-wild animal to enjoy the relative safety of a human settlement; hence, the relationship between cat and human has continued. However, unlike other domesticated species, housecats' ancestors did not hunt socially or enjoy the safety of a herd, as other domesticated animals did. This evolutionary history may be the reason cats do not 'understand' the desires of humans in the same way that dogs do; before humans, cats had fewer social relationships to benefit from. This may also contribute to a sense common among pet owners that cats are both more aloof and more self-sufficient than other pets. However, cats can be very affectionate towards their humans, especially if they imprint on them at a very young age and are treated with consistent affection.
For more information on the care of domestic cats, see How to choose your pet and take care of it, which has a section on cats.
Varieties of domestic cat
There are many named breeds, each with distinct features and heritage. However, due to common cross-breeding in populated areas, many cats are simply identified as belonging to the homogeneous breeds of domestic longhair and domestic shorthair, depending on their type of fur.
Calico (US) or tortoiseshell (UK) cats have multiple colors. Bicolor cats are partly white. A tabby cat is a striped cat.
A male cat is usually called a tom cat, a female cat is called a queen. A young cat is called a kitten. A cat whose ancestry is officially registered is called a purebred cat or a Pedigreed cat or a Show cat. The owners and breeders of show cats compete to see who can breed the cat with the closest resemblance to the 'ideal' definition of the breed. Less than one percent of the total feline population are purebred cats - the remaining 99% have mixed ancestry and are generally known as moggies, or more properly domestic longhairs and domestic shorthairs.
Cats as food
In desperate times, people have been known to be reduced to cooking and eating cats. This occurred in Argentina in 1996. [1] In some poor parts of Africa, there are no stray cats on the street, because every stray that is found gets caught and cooked. Cats, like many other animals, are also occasionally prepared in Cantonese cuisine.
Quotations
- "The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans." -- Konrad Lorenz, Man Meets Dog
Related Topics
- List of historical cats
- List of fictional cats
- Big cat
- Cat is also a commonly used short form for catamaran.
- For the Unix command see cat (Unix).
- CAT also stands for Computed Axial (or Assisted) Topography-see Cat Scan.
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Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1981 based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It was on the stage in the New London Theatre for exactly 21 years and 8,949 performances, from 11 May 1981 to 11 May 2002, the longest running musical in British musical history. It is also the longest running musical in Broadway history.You may be looking for cat.
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Felidae Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Subfamilies Felinae
Pantherinae
AcinonychinaeAll cats are members of the family Felidae. The felines are the most strictly carnivorous of all the nine families in the order to which they belong, Carnivora. It is thought that the closest relatives of the cats are the other families in their branch of the carnivore evolutionary tree: the civets, hyenas, and mongooses. The first felids emerged during the Eocene, about 40 million years ago. The most familiar feline is the Domestic Cat, which first became associated with humans between 7000 and 4000 years ago. Its wild relatives remain in Africa and western Asia to this day, although habitat destruction has restricted their range.
Other well-known members of the cat family include big cats such as the Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar, and Cheetah (although the Cheetah, despite its size, appears to be descended from the small cats), and other wild cats such as the lynxes, Puma, and Bobcat.
A classification of cats
Subfamily Felinae
Genus Felis
Genus Otocolobus
- Wild Cat, Felis silvestris
- Desert Cat or African Wild Cat, Felis silvestris lybica, sometimes Felis lybica
- Domestic Cat, Felis silvestris catus, sometimes Felis catus
- Sand Cat, Felis margarita
- Jungle Cat, Felis chaus
- Black-footed Cat, Felis nigripes
- Chinese Desert Cat, Felis bieti
Genus Catopuma
- Pallas Cat, Otocolobus manul
Genus Profelis
- Asiatic Golden Cat, Catopuma temmincki
- Bay Cat, Catopuma badia
Genus Prionailurus
- African Golden Cat, Profelis aurata
Genus Lynx
- Leopard Cat, Prionailurus bengalensis
- Fishing Cat, Prionailurus viverrinus
- Flat-headed Cat, Prionailurus planiceps
- Rusty-spotted Cat, Prionailurus rubiginosus
Genus Caracal
- Eurasian Lynx, Lynx lynx
- Spanish Lynx, Lynx pardinus
- Canada Lynx, Lynx canadensis
- Bobcat, Lynx rufus
Genus Leptailurus
- Caracal, Caracal caracal
Genus Herpailurus
- Serval, Leptailurus serval
Genus Oncifelis
- Jaguarundi, Herpailurus yaguarondi
Genus Oreailurus
- Pampas Cat, Oncifelis colocolo
- Geoffroy's Cat, Oncifelis geoffroyi
- Kodkod, Oncifelis guigna
Genus Leopardus
- Andean Cat, Oreailurus jacobita
Genus Puma
- Ocelot, Leopardus pardalis
- Margay, Leopardus wiedii
- Little Spotted Cat, Leopardus tigrinus
Subfamily Pantherinae
- Puma, Puma concolor
Genus Pardofelis
Genus Neofelis
- Marbled Cat, Pardofelis marmorata
Genus Uncia
- Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa
Genus Panthera
- Snow Leopard, Uncia uncia
Subfamily Acinonychinae
- Lion, Panthera leo
- Tiger, Panthera tigris
- Leopard, Panthera pardus
- Jaguar, Panthera onca
Genus Acinonyx
- Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus
Fossil cats
The oldest known felines (Aelurogale, Eofelis) emerged in the Eocene. Better known is Proailurus, which lived in the Oligocene and Miocene eras. During the Miocene it gave way to Pseudaelurus. Pseudaelurus is believed to be the latest common ancestor of the three above-mentioned subfamilies and another subfamily, the Machairodontinae. This group, better known as the sabertooth cats, became extinct in the Pleistocene era. It includes the genera Smilodon, Machairodus, Dinofelis and Homotherium.
References
See also
- Phantom cats
Felidae is also the title of a novel by Akif Pirincci in which a cat named Joseph investigates the murders of several cats in the big city. The sequel is Felidae on the Road.
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Cats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media.
Legendary, Mythological and Fairytale Cats
- Bast (or Bastet), Egyptian goddess with the head of a cat; see also Sekhmet, Bast's guise as the goddess of lions
- The cat was the animal of Libera, the Roman mythological personification of Liberty, because it hates to be constrained
- Puss in Boots
- Dick Whittington's Cat
Cats and felines in Literature
- Aslan the lion in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and other Narnia stories by C.S. Lewis.
- Bagheera the panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- "The Black Cat" in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a study of the psychology of guilt
- Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins, witches' cats in The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- The Cat That Walked by Himself in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
- The Cat Who... mystery novels written by Lillian Jackson Braun and featuring the detective James Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats Koko and Yum-yum.
- Cats from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, including Macavity, the mystery cat, source of the musical Cats.
- The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, based on the folk saying, "grinning like a Cheshire cat"
- Chester, the cat in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
- Clarence the Copy Cat, pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier
- C'Mell, a humanoid cat, one of the animal-derived 'underpeople' in stories by Cordwainer Smith
- The Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz series.
- Crookshanks, Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter novels.
- Damn Cat, hero of the Gordons' Undercover Cat, who returns from a nightly prowl with a kidnapped woman's bracelet around his neck...But where has he been? Later adapted as the Disney film That Darn Cat
- Dinah, Alice's pet cat, featured in Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and his Through the Looking-Glass
- Graymalkin, Jill the Witch's familiar and accomplice of Snuff, from the novel A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, (a graymalkin or grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat)
- Greebo (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)
- Gummitch the superkitten, in Fritz Leiber's Space-time For Springers.
- Francis the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirinci
- Maurice, star of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
- Mehitabel, from archy and mehitabel, a dialogue between a melancholy cockroach and a heedless cat, by Don Marquis
- Midnight Louie and his daughter Midnight Louise, feline companions and fellow investigators of amateur sleuth Temple Barr, featured in a series of mystery novels by Carole Nelson Douglas
- Mogget, a magical entity in the form of a cat, in the fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
- Mr. Underfoot in Robert A. Heinlein's Friday
- Petronius Arbiter, Pete in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door Into Summer.
- Pixel in Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
- Upgraded cats in Reginald Bretnor's "Genius of the Species" take over the Soviet Union
- Behemoth, the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
- O'lal, monitor of Earth in Alan Dean Fosters Cat-A-Lyst
- Shere Khan the tiger in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- Simpkin in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester.
- Fritti Tailchaser from Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song.
- Tigger in Winnie the Pooh
- Tobermory the talking cat, protagonist of a short story by the satirist Saki (Hector Hugh Munro).
- Tug, the cat given by Ged to Alder to protect him from nightmares, in The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin.
- The Owl's fiance in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- The Cats of Ulthar, who take revenge upon the murder of a kitten in H.P. Lovecraft's story of that name: from that day, it was forbidden to harm a cat in that city.
- Powder the albino siamese from uncommon children's series Powder The Cat
Cats and felines in Film
- Figaro, of Disney's Pinocchio.
- The film Cats & Dogs postulates an ongoing war dating back to ancient times between cats and dogs. The most notable cat is a spoilt Persian called Mr. Tinkles who is also an evil genius.
- Blofeld's unnamed cat from the James Bond movies, which has inspired a number of imitations and spoofs (see Mr Bigglesworth, Madcat, and Nero)
- Milo in The adventures of Milo and Otis
- Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil's cat from the Austin Powers films, in homage to the unnamed cat of Bond's Blofeld
- The Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
- That Darn Cat, s Disney adaptation of the book Undercover cat (see above)
- Pyewacket is the witch's familiar in the romantic comedy film Bell Book and Candle
- Simba, Nala, Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Sarafina and other lions in Disney's The Lion King
- Kovu, Kiara, Zira, Nuka, Vitani and other lions in Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
- Snowbell, the cat in Stuart Little
- The unnamed cat that Don Corleone has in his lap in the first scenes in The Godfather was, in fact, a stray that Marlon Brando found on the set. The cat purred so loudly as to require the redubbing of much of the dialogue.
- Jones, the cat in Alien
Cats and felines in Television
- The Cat, character descended from cats played by Danny John-Jules on BBC TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf (see Frankenstein)
- "Clarence, the cross-eyed Lion" from the TV series Daktari
- Frankenstein, the pregnant cat Lister sneaks onboard the Red Dwarf
- Kitty, pet lion from the 1960s TV series The Addams Family
- Lucky, the Tanners' cat in TV series ALF, who weekly escaped being devoured by the wisecracking Alien Life-Form
- Miss Kitty Fantastico, pet cat of Willow and Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Morris, commercial mascot for 9 Lives Cat Food, voiced by John Irwin
- Mrs. Slocombe's "Pussy", an unseen character and the source of many innuendoes in Are You Being Served
- Spot, pet cat of Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Salem, talking black cat from the TV series (and comic book) Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Tony the Tiger, commercial spokestiger for the breakfast cereal Frosted Flakes (known in the UK as Frosties)
Cats and felines in Animation, Comics, Puppetry
- Captain Amelia, humanoid feline in Disney's Treasure Planet
- Bagpuss, British TV cat
- the black cat in Kiki's express delivery service
- cast of Disney's The Aristocats
- Big Cat, campus cartoon character often sighted in graffiti and newspaper columns
- Bill the Cat, mascot and presidential candidate in Berke Breathed's Bloom County
- Black Pete, Disney cartoon character, originally the nemesis of Mickey Mouse then Goofy
- Bucky Katt, cartoon cat from Get Fuzzy comic strip
- Catbert, the evil human resources director in the Dilbert comic strip
- CatDog, star of the Nickelodeon TV show of the same name. See also List of fictional dogs
- Cat Jacob, a Swiss cat provides his readers with a humourous little philosophical "poke" along their way.
- The Cattanooga Cats, singing group from Hanna-Barbera animated series
- Chaos, a Muppet cat on Sesame Park
- Choo-Choo Bear, the boneless and oozy pet cat of Davan, in the Something Positive comic
- Claude Cat, Looney Tunes character
- Courageous Cat, superhero friend of sidekick Minute Mouse
- Doraemon, a feline robot from future. From Japanese cartoon and animation series of the same title.
- Custard, nemesis of Roobarb in BBC2 cartoon Roobarb and Custard
- Fatcat
- Fat Freddie's Cat in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton
- Felix the Cat, pioneer cartoon character
- Fritz the Cat, creation of Robert Crumb, changed considerably by Ralph Bakshi in his cartoon, killed later in retaliation by Crumb
- Garfield, comic strip character
- Cast of animated film Gay Purr-ee
- Heathcliff, comic strip character
- Hello Kitty
- Henry's Cat
- Hobbes, Calvin's pet stuffed tiger from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Jess, the eponymous Postman Pat's black and white cat of the title song in the BBC children's TV series
- Mr. Jinks, featured with mice nemeses Pixie and Dixie in Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound Show
- Kimba the White Lion
- Krazy Kat, surreal cartoon by George Herriman
- Kyou, boy who transforms into a cat in the anime series Fruits Basket
- Luna, Artemis and Diana in Sailor Moon
- Madcat, Dr. Claw's pet, from cartoon series Inspector Gadget
- Meowth in Pokemon
- Nero, a fluffy white caterpillar, pet of the villainous toad Silas Greenback, from the cartoon series Danger Mouse -- a parody of Blofeld's cat (see above)
- Oggy, from Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Omaha the Cat Dancer, erotic "furry" comic book character
- Peekaboo from Rose is Rose
- The Pink Panther, movie eponym, cartoon character
- Pussyfoot, Looney Tunes character
- Ragland T. Tiger, aka Rags, on Crusader Rabbit
- Rita, part of the cat-dog couple Rita and Runt in Animaniacs
- Ruff, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
- Diego and the other sabertooth cats in Ice Age
- The Samurai Pizza Cats, cartoon characters
- Scratchy from the fictional show within a show Itchy and Scratchy in The Simpsons
- Sagwa and friends.
- Snagglepuss, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
- Snowball (white) (deceased) and Snowball II (black), The Simpsons house cat
- Snowy: Cat from TV show "Tin tin".
- Lucifer, the cat in Disney's Cinderella.
- Solange from 9 Chickweed Lane
- Stimpy, from the cartoon series Ren and Stimpy
- Sylvester the cat, Warner Bros cartoon character
- Tom, from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry
- Toonces, the driving cat (from Saturday Night Live
- Top Cat, Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon character
- The Thundercats, cartoon characters
- Wildcat, Donald Rooum's anarchist cat, featured in Freedom newspaper
Cats in Computer Games
- Alleycat
Cats in Song
But the cat came back the very next day.
- "The Cat Came Back" (1893) by Harry S. Miller, tells of futile attempts to get rid of a big yellow cat:
The cat came back. They thought it was a goner, But the cat came back; it just wouldn't stay away. The song also inspired an animated cartoon short.
- "Cat Black, the Wizard's Hat" by T. Rex
- "I Am Your Pussy" by Gong
- "Tommy the Cat" by Primus
- "What's New, Pussycat?" by Tom Jones
- "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart
Cats in Science
- Schrödinger's cat, hapless victim and lucky survivor of a thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics (although Schrödinger himself is historical, the cat is the protagonist in a thought experiment and thus fictional). There is a book called Shrodinger's Kittens
Related Topics
- List of historical cats
- List of fictional animals
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Unnamed
- Sir Isaac Newton's cat, whose incessant desire to be let in or out allegedly drove him to devise the catflap.
Named
- Cc the cat, the first cloned pet.
- Dinah, the actual cat of Alice Liddell.
- Humphrey, a cat who took up residence at Downing Street in the early 1990s (named for the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister).
- India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Ruben Sierra "El Indio".
- Muezza, the cat of Mohammed; the Prophet cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the cat, who was sleeping on it.
- Pangur Ban, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
- Socks, US President Bill Clinton's adopted stray cat, named by his daughter Chelsea.
- Trim, beloved ship's cat of explorer Matthew Flinders, said to have been the first cat to circumnavigate the world.
Related topics
- List of fictional cats
- List of historical animals
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| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CATS | English | Certificate of Accrual on Treasury Securities | Finance |
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Synonym: CATSSynonym: Pets. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discord | Troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness; Adjective: enmity; hate; Kilkenny cats; disputant; strange bedfellows. |
River | Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm not leaving without my cats. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) Dogs and cats living together (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis) I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil) That's cats! (All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series; writing credit: Andy Borowitz; Susan Borowitz) No, I just don't like cats or dogs or anything that runs up to you and pees on your feet when you come home (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | I wish I could love you 'til the cats come home (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith) In school i smacked cats in a hurry (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) I'ma keep playing these cats out like Atari (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) Everybody wants to pass as cats (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows) The curtains are closed, the cats in the cradle ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew) | |
Clever | Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. (references; author: unknown) Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The cat catchers can't catch caught cats. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Black Alley Cats (1974) Because of the Cats (1973) The Cattanooga Cats (1969) Cats and Bruises (1965) Sufferin' Cats (1961) | |
Song Titles | Nashville Cats (performing artist: The Lovin' Spoonful) Cats In The Cradle (performing artist: Ugly Kid Joe) | |
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 | The hungry cats were released -- the king cried out -- the queen screamed -- the little princes roared. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A modern version of the Kilkenny Cats. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Because she keeps so many cats. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cats decorating Christmas tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cats in the dormitory. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cats at play. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frances Benjamin Johnston's cats, Herman and Vermin, seated on brick railing of New Orleans house, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Cats" by Tamas Malindovszky Commentary: "A bunch of small cats." | "3 cats in a Bed" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "The 3 boys, Shai, Sabi & Mitsou all snug in the bed..:)." |
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 | Two cats fighting, hissing, and growling. |
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Bernard Meltzer | Top cats often begin as underdogs. |
Henry James | Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. |
Henry Morgan | People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. |
Norman Mailer | I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. |
Robertson Davies | Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. |
Rupert Brooke | Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are as careless and indolent as cats. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | When the folks first left, and the evening of the first day came, the hunting cats slouched in from the fields and mewed on the porch |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dogs and cats are not known to carry hantavirus. (references) | |
Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references) | ||
Keep vaccinations up-to-date for all dogs, cats and ferrets. (references) | ||
Economic History | Austria | As pet food meets only about one third of dietary needs of Austria's dogs and cats, Austria's pet food market should increase considerably in the next few years. (references) |
Brazil | According to the "Gazeta Mercantil" newspaper (July 17, 2000 and May 2, 2001), the Brazilian pet population was estimated at 25 million dogs, 11 million cats, 4 million domestic birds and 500,000 aquariums. (references) | |
Finland | Medium Priority: - Fresh fruits/vegetables: apples, pears, grapes, cherries, avocados; Food grains: rice; Convenience foods: microwavable items like popcorn; Seafood: salmon, frozen crayfish, whitefish roe; Pet food for dogs and cats. (references) | |
Political Economy | PANAMA | Companies that profit from these exemptions are not eligible to receive CATs for their exports. (references) |
PANAMA | The Tax Credit Certificate (CAT), which was given to firms producing nontraditional exports when the exports' national content and value-added met minimum established levels, is scheduled to be phased out in 2002. But during the WTO Doha meetings in November 2001, the Government of Panama asked for and received an extension from the WTO regarding the use of CATs. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | Cats and dogs are issued with an import license only after a veterinary surgeon has certified the animal to have been vaccinated against rabies and has no symptoms of any contagious disease. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good -- that is perfection; and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CATS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.41% of the time. "CATS" is used about 1,586 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.41% | 1,529 | 5,350 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.59% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,586 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Cats, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CATS": allergic to cats ♦ cats and dogs ♦ cats cradle ♦ cats paw ♦ fight like kilkenny cats ♦ it is raining cats and dogs ♦ it rains like cats and dogs ♦ it's raining cats and dogs ♦ Kilkenny cats ♦ pour cats and dogs ♦ rain cats and dogs ♦ raining cats and dogs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CATS": cats-cradle, cats-meat, cats-paw. | |
Ending with "CATS": fat-cats, tom-cats. | |
Containing "CATS": burning-cats-alive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cats.com persian | 24 |
cats.com ragdoll | 4 |
cats.com manx | 4 |
cats.com curvy | 4 |
burmese cats.com | 3 |
birman cats.org | 2 |
cats.com ocelot | 2 |
cats.org ragdoll | 2 |
cats.com serval | 2 |
cats.com chantilly tiffany | 2 |
cats.com ragamuffin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CATS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | po bie shi i foryë (it's raining cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вали като из ведро (raining cats and dogs), вид възел (cats paw, hitch), маша (cats paw, cat's paw, curling irons, curling tongs, fire-irons, hatchet man, instrument, tongs, tool), зефир (cats paw, cat's paw, gale, zephyr). (various references) | |
Chinese | 猫 (Cat). (various references) | |
Czech | nastrèený èlovìk (cats paw, cat's paw), leje tam jako z konve (it's raining cats and dogs), leje jako z konve (it rains like cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Danish | katte (cat family, Felidae). (various references) | |
Dutch | katachtigen (cat family, Felidae). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pluvegi (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Faeroese | oysregna (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Finnish | kauran harmaalaikkutauti (grey speck disease of cats, grey spot disease of cats). (various references) | |
French | Félins (cat family), Félidés (cat family). (various references) | |
Frisian | eazje (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
German | Katzen (tabbies). (various references) | |
Greek | φελίδες (cat family, Felidae), αιλουροειδή (cat family, Felidae), αιλουρίδες (cat family, Felidae). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mintha dézsából öntenék (to rain cats and dogs), úgy zuhog (to rain cats and dogs), úgy ömlik (to rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Icelandic | rigna mjög mikið (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Italian | gatte, felidi (cat family, Felidae). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 犬猿の仲 (like cats and dogs, loggerheads), 恋猫 (cats in season, haiku term for spring). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こいねこ (cats in season, haiku term for spring), けんえんのなか (like cats and dogs, loggerheads). (various references) | |
Korean | 고양이 (Cat, pussycat). (various references) | |
Manx | kiyt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | felídeos (cat family, Felidae). (various references) | |
Romanian | se bate cã chiorii (fight like kilkenny cats), plouã puternic (it's raining cats and dogs), plouã cu gãleata (it is pouring, it's raining cats and dogs, piss down, pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Russian | лить как из ведра (raining cats and dogs), дождь льет как из ведра (it's raining cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osoba koja služi kao sredstvo (cats paw), lije kao iz kabla (raining cats and dogs). (various references) | |
Spanish | los gatos. (various references) | |
Swedish | katter. (various references) | |
Turkish | hafif rüzgâr (air, breeze, cats paw, slight breeze), bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmur yağıyor (it is raining cats and dogs), bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmak (beat down, bucket, come down in sheets, lash, lash down, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain in torrents, teem), başkasının aleti olan (cats paw). (various references) | |
Turkmen | guzlamak (calve). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що має відразу до кішек (allergic to cats). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Felidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CATS": catspaw, catspaws, catsup, catsups. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CATS": bearcats, bobcats, copycats, ducats, hellcats, hepcats, magnificats, mudcats, muscats, polecats, pussycats, requiescats, scats, tipcats, tomcats, wildcats. (additional references) | |
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"CATS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: actas, Actss, Actts, caat, cacs, cags, cais, Caits, cas, casti, cath, Caths, cati, Catsi, Catsy, catt, Catta, catus, catv, caus, cauts, ceats, Cest, cesta, Cetes, cetis, cetls, cett, Cfast, Cgatt, Cgattc, ciats, cista, Cits, Cotts, Csta, cta, Ctab, cts, cuates, cutsy, cutts, Icast, kast, kasta, katos, kats, ucat, Ucatt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CATS" (pronounced ka"ts) |
| 4 | k a" t s | Kats. |
| 3 | -a" t s | bats, batts, brats, chats, combats, fats, flats, gnats, hats, mats, mattes, Matts, pats, prats, rats, slats, spats, stats, vats. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: acts, cast, scat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-s-t" | |
-1 letter: act, cat, sac, sat, tas. | |
-2 letters: as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ascot, canst, cants, carts, caste, casts, cates, cesta, chats, clast, coast, coats, costa, facts, pacts, scant, scart, scats, scatt, scuta, stack, taces, tachs, tacks, tacos, tacts, talcs. | |
+2 letters: accost, actins, actors, acutes, antics, ascent, ascots, aspect, attics, bracts, cactus, cadets, cantos, cantus, carats, carets, cartes, casita, casket, caster, castes, castle, castor, caters, catsup, centas, cestas, chants, charts, chaste, cheats, claspt, clasts, cleats, coacts, coapts, coasts, coatis, costae, costal, costar, cotans, cottas, crafts, crates, crista, cuesta, cushat, cutlas, dicast, ducats, eclats, enacts, epacts, exacts, facets, mascot, mastic, misact, muscat, nastic, octads, octans, racist, reacts, recast, sacbut, sachet, sancta, scants, scanty, scarts, scathe, scatts, scatty, scotia, scrota, secant, slatch, snatch, stacks, stacte, stance, stanch, starch, static, swatch, taches, tarocs, thacks, ticals, traces, tracks, tracts, triacs, upcast, yachts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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