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Definition: Rat |
RatNoun1. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse. 2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. 3. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!". 4. One who reveals confidential information in return for money. Verb1. Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage. 2. Employ scabs or strike breakers in (an industry). 3. Take the place of work of someone on strike. 4. Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat. 5. Catch rats, esp. with dogs. 6. Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of rats, denotes that you will be deceived, and injured by your neighbors. Quarrels with your companions is also foreboded. To catch rats, means you will scorn the baseness of others, and worthily outstrip your enemies. To kill one, denotes your victory in any contest. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Rat The Egyptians and Phrygians deified rats. The people of Bassora and Cambay to the present time forbid their destruction. In Egypt the rat symbolised "utter destruction;" it also symbolised "judgment," because rats always choose the best bread for their repast. Rat. Pliny tells us (bk. viii. ch. lvii.) that the Romans drew presages from these animals, and to see a white rat foreboded good fortune. The bucklers at Lanuvium being gnawed by rats presaged ill-fortune, and the battle of the Marses, fought soon after, confirmed this superstition. Prosperine's veil was embroidered with rats. Irish rats rhymed to death. It was once a prevalent opinion that rats in pasturages could be extirpated by anathematising them in rhyming verse or by metrical charms. This notion is frequently alluded to by ancient authors. Thus, Ben Jonson says: "Rhyme them to death, as they do Irish rats" (Poctaster): Sir Philip Sidney says: "Though I will not wish unto you ... to be rimed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland" (Defence of Poesie); and Shakespeare makes Rosalind say: "I was never so berhymed since ... I was an Irish rat," alluding to the Pythagorean doctrine of the transmigration of souls (As You Like It, iii. 2). (See Charm.) I smell a rat. I perceive there is something concealed which is mischievous. The allusion is to a cat smelling a rat. Rat (To). To forsake a losing side for the stronger party. It is said that rats forsake ships not weatherproof. A rat is one who rats or deserts his party. Hence workmen who work during a strike are called "rats." "Averting ... The cup of sorrow from their lips. And fly like rats from sinking ships." Swift: Epistle to Mr. Nugent. Rat (Un). A purse. Hence, a young boy thief is called a Raton. A sort of pun on the word rapt from the Latin rapto, to carry off forcibly. Courir le rat, to rob or break into a house at night-time. To take a rat by the tail, or Prendre un rat par la queue, is to cut a purse. A phrase dating back to the age of Louis XIII., and inserted in Cotgrave's Dictionary. Of course, a cutpurse would cut the purse at the string or else he would spill the contents. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (suka ). (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Prisons and campus(sometimes). Definition: Someone who incriminates another person and turns them in to authorites. (In a prison situation this person may become a punk or in need of PC.) (See PUNK, PC and KID.). Context: Used in prisons and on campus, also used with other social groups. Social Source: Prison guards who became DPS officers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | RAT. A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and confined in the, watch-house. CANT. To smell a rat; to suspect some intended trick, or unfair design. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rat is a small omnivorous rodent of the genus Rattus. Rats are mammals somewhat bigger than their relatives the mice, but seldom weighing over 300 grams.
Rat Rattus rattus Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Well-known species of rat are the Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus; the Black Rat, Rattus rattus; the Rice Rat, Rattus argentiventer, and the Indian Mole Rat, Bandicota bengalensis.
These four common varieties of rat often live with and near humans, share their food and spread disease. The Black Plague is believed to have been spread by rat-borne parasites. Rats are also blamed for damaging food supplies and other goods. They have a very poor reputation; "rat" is an insult and "to rat on someone" is to betray them by denouncing a crime or misdeed they committed to the authorities.
Many other species of rat exist, including the wood or pack rats, the Polynesian Rat and a number of species loosely called kangaroo rats.
Rats might eat each other in stressful environments or when the number of rats in a space is very high, but cannibalism to prevent diseases from spreading is normal, where dead rats are eaten before they start spreading diseases.
Rats in the Laboratory
Like mice, rats (especially albino rattus norvegicus) are frequently subjects of medical, psychological and other biological experiments. This is because they grow quickly to sexual maturity and because they are easy to keep and to breed in captivity. Scientists have bred many strains or "lines" of rats specifically for experimentation. Generally, these lines are not transgenic, however, because the easy techniques of genetic transformation that work in mice do not work for rats. This has disadvantaged many investigators, who regard many aspects of behavior and physiology in rats as more relevant to humans and easier to observe than in mice, but who wish to trace their observations to underlying genes. As a result, many have been forced to study questions in mice that might be better pursued in rats. In October 2003, however, researchers succeeded in cloning two laboratory rats by the problematic technique of nuclear transfer. So rats may begin to see more use as genetic research subjects.
Pet Rats
In Western countries, many people keep domestic rats as pets. Descendants of rats bred for research, these animals also are called "fancy rats", "coloured rats" or "colour rats." Rat fanciers have developed many exotic varieties. Besides ones with unusual colouring, there have been rats bred that have bigger ears, no fur, no tails and oversized hind legs. Domesticated rats tend to be both more docile than their wild ancestors and more disease prone, presumably due to inbreeding.
Rats in Culture
In imperial Chinese culture, the rat (sometimes referred to as a mouse) is the first of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Consequently every twelfth year is known as a "year of the rat" in the Chinese calendar. People born in such years are expected to possess qualities associated with rats. These include creativity, honesty, generosity, ambition, a quick temper and wastefulness. "Rats" (i.e. people born in a year of the rat) are said to get along well with "monkeys" and "dragons," and to get along poorly with "horses."
See also: Rat (Zodiac)
The stereotypes associated with rats in Western civilization are less complementary. Rats are seen as vicious, unclean, parasitic animals that steal food and spread disease. When anthropomorphized, rats are usually depicted as selfish, crude and untrustworthy. Describing a person as ratlike usually implies they are unattractive and suspicious. By contrast, mice are sterotyped as cute and bourgeois.
Further Reading
- The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them, S. Anthony Barnett, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia, 2002, trade paperback, 202 pages, ISBN 1-86508-519-7. Monograph by an experienced "rat" man. Nice bibliography.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rat."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The rat is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits.People who have this Chinese sign are:
See also: Rat
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rat (Zodiac)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RAT | English | Ready assets trust | Finance |
RAT | French | Turbine à air dynamique | Military & Defense, Transportation |
RAT | German | Stauluft-Turbine | Military & Defense, Transportation |
RAT | Greek | ανασυρόμενη ανεμοκινούμενη έλικα | Mechanical Engineering |
| RALV | English | Rat Leuk(a)emia Virus | N/A |
| RaDT | German | Rat für Deutschsprachige Terminologie | N/A |
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Synonyms: RatSynonyms: betrayer (n), blabber (n), blackleg (n), bum (n), crumb (n), informer (n), lowlife (n), puke (n), rotter (n), scum bag (n), skunk (n), so-and-so (n), squealer (n), stinker (n), stinkpot (n), strikebreaker (n), betray (v), denounce (v), give away (v), grass (v), peach (v), scab (v), shit (v), shop (v), snitch (v), stag (v), tell on (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Discovery | Be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn; smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat. |
Poverty | Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless. |
Tergiversation | Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist. |
Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl. | |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts. |
Weakness | On its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | James! How's the rat business (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) Even with a swollen nose, I can still smell a rat. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. You know, Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Look at that rat! (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) You're right; He's a stupid rat! (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Lyrics | With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey (TURN THE BEAT AROUND; performing artist: Gloria Estefan) | |
Clever | Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rat i mir (1973) White Rat (1972) Vsya korolevskaya rat (1971) Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968) The Rat Catchers (1966) | |
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 | This composite slide shows the Lobund-Wistar rat on the left, and on the right shows a dissection of the rat with urogenital (prostate and/or seminal vesicle) tumors. The Lobund-Wistar rat is an excellent animal model to develop prevention and treatment modalilities, such as retinoids, of urogenital cancers. Credit: Janet Stephens (photographer). |  | Dissected rat showing evidence of echinococcosis due to Echinococcus multilocularis in organs at 45 days. Gross pathology. Credit: CDC. |
 | Gross pathology of cotton rat infected with Echinococcus multilocularis. First E. locularis isolated in the United States proper. Necropsy. Credit: CDC. |  | Notice the large black rat snake to the right of green marsh grass. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A large black rat snake crossing a tidal inlet in the marsh grass. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Lengthwise view of the rat brain showing the brain regions in which certain stress hormones (i.e., endogenous opioids) are released. Credit: NIAA. |
 | [Tagged dead rat outstretched on a paper-covered surface, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Philadelphia General Hospital. : City Health Department, Rat Patrol Wagon. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Seaman E.H. Henderson ties a rat guard in place on one of Blue Ridge's mooring lines, as she docks for a visit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 March 1971. Credit: NAVY. |  | Old Jack in the last agony and the fox caught in a rat trap. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "A little rat" by Pablo Rosciani Commentary: "My little rat." | ""Poor Rat 2"" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "& here you see my cat trying to get it........... They are so mean the cats........" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Cervantes | I begin to smell a rat. |
Edmund Burke | By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. |
Winston Churchill | Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | *(4) Un rat. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A fellow had once seen a big rat jump into the scum |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Male Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea) engorged with blood. (references) | |
As you might expect from the name, this rat likes marshy areas and is semiaquatic. (references) | ||
This virus sequence has now been associated with the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris). (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise: What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so? 'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in? |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Regis Philbin | The Rat Pak. And national exposure. I mean, it was a lot going on on that show and a chance to learn how they did it on network television. It was a wonderful three years and I did meet an awful lot of people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Rat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.10% of the time. "Rat" is used about 941 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 (singular) | 93.1% | 876 | 8,113 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.03% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.8% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.64% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.42% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 941 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "rat". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Achbor | N/A | Biblical | A rat |
| Shapham | N/A | Biblical | Wild rat |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "rat": Bamboo rat ♦ bandicoot rat ♦ Beaver rat ♦ black rat ♦ black rat snake ♦ Blind rat ♦ brown rat ♦ bush rat ♦ chinchilla rat ♦ Coast rat ♦ Coffee rat ♦ Cotton rat ♦ Damaraland mole rat ♦ desert rat ♦ dwarf pocket rat ♦ Floe rat ♦ Florida water rat ♦ ground rat ♦ hed Rat ♦ Hedgehog rat ♦ i smell a rat ♦ indian rat snake ♦ jerboa rat ♦ kangaroo rat ♦ like a drowned rat ♦ look like a drowned rat ♦ marsupial rat ♦ mole rat ♦ mountain rat ♦ naked mole rat ♦ Norway rat ♦ opossum rat ♦ Ord kangaroo rat ♦ pack rat ♦ Pharaoh's rat ♦ pocket rat ♦ pouched rat ♦ prickly rat ♦ purse rat ♦ rat belt ♦ rat catcher ♦ rat chinchilla ♦ rat dance ♦ rat Indians ♦ rat kangaroo ♦ rat mole ♦ rat on ♦ rat on smb. ♦ rat pit ♦ rat poison ♦ rat race ♦ rat snake ♦ rat terrier ♦ rat typhus ♦ red rat snake ♦ rice rat ♦ roof rat ♦ sand rat ♦ sea rat ♦ sewer rat ♦ smear a rat ♦ smell a rat ♦ spiny rat ♦ stink rat ♦ To smell a rat ♦ trade rat ♦ Tree rat ♦ water rat ♦ wharf rat ♦ wood rat ♦ young rat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rat": rat-arsed, rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat-tat, rat-at-tat, rat-bite, Rat-Bite Fever, rat-boars, rat-body, rat-both, rat-catcher, rat-catchers, rat-catching, rat-chewed, rat-droppings, rat-faced, rat-filled, rat-fink, rat-form, rat-girl, rat-haunted, rat-hole, rat-holes, rat-infested, rat-kangaroos, rat-level, rat-like, rat-maze, rat-men, rat-packs, rat-pits, rat-poison, rat-race, rat-racing, rat-ridden, rat-run, rat-running, rat-runs, Rat-tail, rat-tail file, rat-tail fish, Rat-tailed, Rat-tailed larva, Rat-tailed radish, Rat-tailed serpent, Rat-tailed shrew, rat-tails, rat-tat, rat-tat!, rat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat!, rat-tat-tats, Rat-tat-tat-ta, rat-tat-tatted, rat-teeth, rat-thrower, rat-trap, rat-traps, rat-type. | |
Ending with "rat": anti-rat. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rat | 2,515 | rat rod | 122 |
rat terrier | 2,078 | rug rat | 118 |
gambian rat | 1,640 | go rat rug wild | 108 |
gambian giant rat | 1,196 | dog rat terrier | 103 |
nasty rat | 632 | rat terrier puppy | 101 |
pet rat | 373 | toy rat terrier | 100 |
rat snake | 343 | rat trap | 99 |
rat pack | 328 | fancy rat | 98 |
rat picture | 268 | naked mole rat | 97 |
gary rat | 223 | river rat | 95 |
rat race | 207 | gambian giant pouched rat | 92 |
desert rat | 204 | roof rat | 86 |
rat fink | 191 | rat terrier picture | 83 |
black rat snake | 181 | dissection rat | 82 |
hut ladle rat rotten | 174 | water rat | 76 |
rat control | 171 | rat anatomy | 76 |
the rat pack | 168 | yellow rat bastard | 72 |
rat poison | 140 | boom town rat | 72 |
rat kangaroo | 133 | impulse rat | 71 |
rat cage | 128 | pack rat | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | rot. (various references) | |
Albanian | refuzoj (debar, decline, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, negative, override, overrule, rebuff, refuse, reject, relinquish, renounce, spurn, throw over, thumb down, withhold), zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), tradhtoj (betray, double cross, fool about, fool around, go back on, quisle, sell out, two time), tradhtar (betrayer, deceitful, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, recreant, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback), spiun (agent, company checkers, fink, lurcher, operator, overlooker, Spier, spy), mohoj (abnegate, deny, disaffirm, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refuse, repudiate, retract, set aside), mi (campagnol, mi, mouse), kallëzoj (delate, denounce, inform, inform against, narrate, peach, report, sneak, snitch, squeak, tell on), jastëk i vockël, horr (cad, knave, reprobate, rough neck, ruffian, scoundrel, villain), burracak (coward, milk-livered, poltroon, recreant, slack), asgjësoj minj. (various references) | |
Arabic | فأرة, فأر (mouse), وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), تجسس (eavesdrop, espionage, sing, snoop, snooping, spy, spying), خان (betray, double cross, false, hotel, inn, khan, play false, renegade, sell out, split, squeal, two time), جرذان, جرذ, الواش (fink), الحقير (blackguard, villain, wretch), الخائن (recreant, squealer, traitor, turncoat), إصطاد الفئران, شخص محتقر. (various references) | |
Aymara | achulla (wild rat). (various references) | |
Basque | arratoi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стачкоизменник (blackleg, fink, knobstick, scab, strikebreaker), меня си боята, ловя плъхове, предател (betrayer, sellout, traitor), подпълвам (fill up, pack out, quilt, wad), подплънка за руло, подплънка за кок, плъх, изоставям приятелите си, изменям на приятелите си, избивам плъхове, доносник (calumniator, communicant, delator, grass, informant, informer, sneak, snitch, squeaker, stool pigeon, telltale, whisperer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鼠 (mouse). (various references) | |
Czech | zradit (betray, desert, fink, flimflam, sell), udavaè (denunciator, informer, tell tale), udat (denounce, inform, overstate, present, quote, state), svinì (bugger, sow, swine), stávkokaz (blackleg, scab, strikebreaker), mizera (bastard, blighter, bugger, dog, horror, rascal, scamp, scoundrel, stinker, villain), krysa. (various references) | |
Danish | rotte (rattus). (various references) | |
Dutch | rat (blackleg, non-striker, rattus, scab, strikebreaker), rot (addled, bad, gang, rotten, squad, ugly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rato. (various references) | |
Faeroese | rotta. (various references) | |
Farsi | موش گرفتن (Mouse), کشتن (Administer, Amortize, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Smite), خیانت (Betrayal, Guile, Perfidy, Treachery, Treason, Untruth(Ful)), ادم موش صفت , دسته خودراترک کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | rotta (rot). (various references) | |
French | rat (ram air turbine, rat-tail). (various references) | |
Frisian | rôt. (various references) | |
German | Ratte (rattus). (various references) | |
Greek | αρουραίος (rattus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערוק (bolt, desert, escape, flee, renegade, tergiversate), עכברוש, חולדה (bobcat, polecat), חולד (mole). (various references) | |
Hungarian | patkány (creep, crumb, ratty, yuck, yuk). (various references) | |
Icelandic | rotta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tikus besar, tikus (mouse). (various references) | |
Irish | luch mhor, francach. (various references) | |
Italian | ratto (abduction, kidnapping, rape). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼠 (dark gray, mouse, slate color), ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラット , ねずみ (dark gray, mouse, slate color), ねず (dark gray, mouse, slate color). (various references) | |
Korean | 쥐 (mice, Mouse, RATS). (various references) | |
Manx | roddan, soodragh (rat sea name), fer yn amman vooar (rat sea name). (various references) | |
Maya | cho' (to scrub). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rotte. (various references) | |
Occitan | rat, garri. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djaka. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rato (mouse). (various references) | |
Romanian | trãda (bespeak, betray, deceive, disclose, evince, give away, Mark, reveal, witness), spãrgãtor de grevã (blackleg, Ratter, scab, strike breaker), prinde şobolani, musãr, guzgan, şobolan. (various references) | |
Romany | plùhoos. (various references) | |
Russian | трус (caitiff, capon, chicken, chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, milksop, pikelet, piker, poltroon, recreant, yellow dog), шпион (a spy, double agent, emissary, infiltrator, intelligencer, keeker, spier, spy), крыса крысиный, крыса, крысиный (ratty), отречься (renounce), быть штрейкбрехером (fink), предатель (betrayer, quisling, quislings, recreant, traitor), предавать (betray, commit, play false, play foul), истреблять крыс, доносчик (checker, delator, denunciator, fink, informer, nark, noser, sneak, sneaker, snitch, squeaker, squeal, squealer, tattletale, whistle-blower, whistler), дезертировать (desert), дезертир (defector, deserter, duck out, slacker). (various references) | |
Scottish | radan (a rat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vojni begunac, prijaviti (grass, inform, inform against, register, snitch, tattle, tell on, turn in), podozriv (suspect), pacov, dostavljač (delator, deliverer, fink, informant, informer, nark, squealer, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler, tattletale), dostaviti (deliver, inform, tattle), bitanga (hoodlum, louse, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, villain). (various references) | |
Shona | gonzo. (various references) | |
Spanish | rata (rattus, stargazer, star-gazer). (various references) | |
Sranan | alata. (various references) | |
Swahili | panya. (various references) | |
Swedish | råtta (bandicoot, mouse). (various references) | |
Tagalog | dagâ. (various references) | |
Thai | ล่าหนู, หนู. (various references) | |
Turkish | ihbar etmek (blow the whistle on, complain, delate, denounce, fink on, grass, grass on smb., inform, inform against, peach, peach against, peach on, put on the scent, report, tell on smb., turn in, warn), döneklik etmek (defect), fare (house mouse, mouse), fare avlamak (mouse), grev bozucu, greve katılmamak (blackleg, scab it), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), dönek (apostate, capricious, changeable, changeful, deserter, fickle, flukey, fluky, inconstant, lubricious, piker, protean, quitter, Ratter, renegade, turnabout, turncoat, untrustworthy, versatile, volatile), ihanet etmek (betray, cheat, deceive, double cross, give the game away, play false, play smb. false, sell smb. down the river, sell the pass, set down, stab, stab smb. in the back, two time), sıçan (mouse), ispiyoncu (denunciator, finger, finger man, fink, informant, informer, snout, split, spy, squealler, stool pigeon, telltale), ispiyonlamak (fink on, sneak, snitch, snitch on, split on, spy on, squeal, tell on smb.), kalleş (heel, piker, prick, treacherous), muhbir (delator, denunciator, finger, finger man, informant, informer, intelligencer, nark, reporter, setter, snout, split, squealer, squealler, stooge, stool pigeon, tipster), parti değiştiren milletvekili, parti değiştirmek (change one's allegiance, tergiversate), hainlik etmek (be disloyal, betray, play smb. foul). (various references) | |
Turkmen | alaka (gopher). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стати зрадником, щур, винищувати пацюків, зрадник (apostate, betrayer, changeling, recreant, traitor), пацюк. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người chiếm chỗ làm của công nhân đình công, kẻ phản đảng (turncoat). (various references) | |
Welsh | llygoden fawr. (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'o' (mouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Epimys, Rattus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rat": ratable, ratably, ratafee, ratafees, ratafia, ratafias, ratal, ratals, ratan, ratanies, ratans, ratany, rataplan, rataplanned, rataplanning, rataplans, ratatat, ratatats, ratatouille, ratatouilles, ratbag, ratbags, ratch, ratches, ratchet, ratcheted, ratcheting, ratchets, rate, rateable, rateably, rated, ratel, ratels, ratemeter, ratemeters, ratepayer, ratepayers, rater, raters, rates, ratfink, ratfinks, ratfish, ratfishes, rath, rathe, rather, rathole, ratholes, rathskeller. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rat": apparat, aristocrat, autocrat, baccarat, brat, bureaucrat, carat, democrat, derat, drat, firebrat, frat, gerontocrat, grat, jurat, karat, korat, meritocrat, mobocrat, monocrat, muskrat, ochlocrat, plutocrat, prat, quadrat, sprat, superbureaucrat, technocrat, thalassocrat, theocrat, ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rat": aberrated, aberration, aberrational, aberrations, abjuration, abjurations, accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, acceleratingly, acceleration, accelerations, accelerative, accelerator, accelerators, acculturate, acculturated, acculturates, acculturating, acculturation, acculturational, acculturations, acculturative, accurate, accurately, accurateness, accuratenesses, acerate, acerated, acierate, acierated, acierates, acierating, adjuration, adjurations, adjuratory, administrate, administrated, administrates, administrating, administration, administrations, administrative, administratively, administrator, administrators, administratrices, administratrix, admiration, admirations. (additional references) | |
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"Rat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arat, armt, arzt, crta, hrat, irat, irta, krat, Orat, raa, Raat, raato, rad, Rahtz, Rait, raith, ralt, raot, raq, rar, rast, rati, ratm, rato, ratp, ratt, raty, ratz, rau, rautt, Rav, rawt, rax, razt, reat, regt, reht, Rejt, Retb, reth, rett, retz, rhat, riat, rict, rit, rith, ritm, ritt, ritu, rity, Rka, rkt, Roat, roath, rott, rrat, rst, rt, rta, rtd, rtp, rutt, ryat, Urata, vrat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rat" (pronounced ra"t) |
| 3 | r a" t | brat. |
| 2 | -a" t | at, bat, batt, begat, cat, chat, fat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, mat, Matt, matte, nonfat, Pat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, stat, Tat, that, vat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: art, tar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ar, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-t" | |
+1 letter: airt, arts, arty, brat, cart, dart, drat, frat, grat, hart, kart, mart, part, prat, raft, rant, rapt, rate, rath, rato, rats, rota, star, tahr, tare, tarn, taro, tarp, tars, tart, tear, tora, trad, tram, trap, tray, tsar, tzar, wart. | |
+2 letters: abort, actor, afrit, after, airth, airts, alert, altar, alter, amort, antra, antre, aorta, apart, aport, apter, arete, argot, arhat, armet, artal, artel, artsy, aster, astir, atria, atrip, attar, avert, boart, bract, brant, brats, carat, caret, carte, carts, cater, chart, craft, crate, darts, dater, derat, draft, drats, earth, eater, extra, frats, garth, gator, graft, grant, grate, great, groat, harts, hater, heart, irate, jurat, karat, karst, karts, korat, kraft, krait, kraut, kurta, later, lyart, marts, mater, oater, orate, ottar, parts, party, pater, peart, prate, prats, pruta, quart, rabat, rafts, ramet, rants, ratal, ratan, ratch, rated, ratel, rater, rates, rathe, ratio, ratos, ratty, react, reata, recta, retag, retax, retia, rhyta, riant, riata, roast, rotas, satyr, scart, sitar, smart, sprat, stair, stare, stark, stars, start, strap, straw, stray, stria, sutra, swart, taber, tabor, tahrs, taker, talar, taler, tamer, taper, tapir, tardo, tardy, tared, tares, targe, tarns, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tarps, tarre, tarry, tarsi, tarts, tarty, tatar, tater, tawer, taxer, tears, teary, terai, terga, terra, tetra, tharm, thraw, tiara, tolar, torah, toras, trace, track, tract, trade, tragi, traik, trail, train, trait, tramp, trams, trank, tranq, trans, traps, trapt, trash, trass, trave, trawl, trays, tread, treat, triac, triad, trial, troak, trona, tryma, tsars, tzars, ultra, urate, warts, warty, water, wrapt, wrath, yurta. | |
| 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. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Derived from 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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