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Definition: Catwalk |
CatwalkNoun1. Narrow platform; "models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show". 2. Narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage; between parts of a building; along a bridge). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "catwalk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A narrow extension of a platform to accommodate the end cars of a train, where a full-width section of platform is structurally difficult or costly to provide. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A pathway, usually of wood or metal, that gives access to parts of largemachines. (references) |
Transportation | A walkway constructed over or around obstructions on a ship for convenience of the crew. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Catwalk |
| Specialty definitions using "catwalk": MARKER MACHINE ATTENDANT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Catwalk" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (catwalk). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | And I do my little turn on the catwalk (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred) I do my little turn on the catwalk (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred) I shake my little touche on the catwalk (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred) Yeah on the catwalk yeah on the catwalk yeah (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Catwalk 2 (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Steel and concrete climb before the catwalk as CDC's new virology building goes up. Maximum containment equipment and facilities continue to help CDC scientists do viral research for health problems of the 21st century. Credit: CDC. |  | A mullet fisherman mending his net on the Gandy Bridge catwalk. The Gandy Bridge links St. Petersburg and Tampa. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The Gandy Bridge fishing catwalk. This bridge connects St. Petersburg and Tampa . It's a long walk to fish the deeper water of Tampa Bay. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Catwalk area on the exterior of the Yaquina Head lighthouse watchroom. Credit: Kathy Liska. |
 | Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William Belden ejects from his Douglas A-4E "Skyhawk" attack aircraft (Bureau # 150117) as it rolls into the carrier's port catwalk after suffering a brake failure following recovery, 2 July 1970. LtJG Belden ejected safely and was rescued by Shangri-La's helicopter. Credit: NAVY. |  | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 July 1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note torpedo tubes, catwalk, and 20mm guns (in a cruciform arrangement) on her superstructure deck; winch and floater nets on the main deck. Credit: NAVY. |
 | New York Coliseum, Columbus Circle. From catwalk I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Catwalk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.89% of the time. "Catwalk" is used about 146 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) | 95.89% | 140 | 26,789 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.05% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.05% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "catwalk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 狭小通". (various references) | |
Czech | pódium (dais, stage, stand). (various references) | |
Danish | perronafslutning, overdækket løbebro (roof walkway). (various references) | |
Dutch | verlengd smal perron, verhoogd bordes (roof walkway), ketelbrug (roof walkway). (various references) | |
Farsi | راه باریک وگربه رو. (various references) | |
Finnish | laiturin kapea loppuosa. (various references) | |
French | portion redressée d'un quai, passerelle de pavillon, passerelle, passavant (cat walk). (various references) | |
German | Laufplanke (gangplank, gangway). (various references) | |
Greek | στενή ράμπα, διάδρομος στέγης (roof walkway), διάδρομος οροφής (roof walkway). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tetőjáró, gyalogjáró (goer, manway, path, pathway, pedestrian, side path, sidewalk), futóhíd. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan sempit (gangway). (various references) | |
Italian | catwalk, passerella sul tetto (roof walkway), passerella (bridge, footbridge, gangway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キャッシュレス社会 (cabaret, cabaret club, cabinet, caching, caddie, caddie bag, caddy, caddy bag, Cadillac, call waiting, cannon, cannonball, canola, canon, cap, capacitance, capacitor, capacity, capless, cashless society, castle, catch, catch ball, catch bar, catch copy, catch sales, catcher, catchphrase, catchword, cat's-eye, caviar, play catch, top reporter at a newspaper's local office). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | キャットウォーク . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atwalkcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | passadiço (gangway). (various references) | |
Spanish | prolongación del andén, pasarela de pabellón (roof walkway), pasadizo (corridor, gangway, passage, passageway). (various references) | |
Swedish | catwalk, smal gångbro, gångbord (bench, side platform). (various references) | |
Turkish | podyum (dais, platform, podium), dar köprü. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catwalk": catwalks. (additional references) | |
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"Catwalk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athwal, Atwal, Cadwa, Caswall, catawalk, Catweasle, Latfwala. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "catwalk" (pronounced ka"twÄ'k) |
| 3 | -w Ä' k | crosswalk, spacewalk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-k-l-t-w" | |
-2 letters: alack. | |
-3 letters: acta, calk, claw, kata, lack, tack, taka, tala, talc, talk, wack, walk. | |
-4 letters: aal, act, ala, alt, awa, awl, cat, caw, kat, lac, lat, law, taw, twa, wat. | |
-5 letters: aa, al, at, aw, ka, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-k-l-t-w" | |
+1 letter: catwalks. | |
+3 letters: blackwater. | |
+4 letters: blackwaters, trackwalker. | |
+5 letters: trackwalkers. | |
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