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Definition: Pet |
PetAdjective1. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child". Noun1. A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement. 2. A special loved one. 3. A fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight). 4. Using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain). Verb1. Stroke or caress gently; "pet the lamb". 2. Stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | PET. In a pet; in a passion or miff. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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The PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home-/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in the late 1970s. Although it was no top seller outside the US and UK educational market, it was Commodore's first computer and would form the basis for their future success.
History
PET/CBM Model 4032
Add-on: Disk drives
Education, business, and computer science
The final version of what could be thought of as the "classic" PET was the PET 4000 series. This was essentially the later model 2000 series, but with a larger black-and-green monitor and a newer version of Commodore's BASIC programming language. By this point Commodore had noticed that many customers were buying the "low memory" versions of the machines and installing their own RAM chips, so the 4008 and 4016 had the sockets punched out of the motherboard.
The 4032 was a huge success in schools, where its tough all-metal construction and all-in-one design made it better able to stand up to the rigors of classroom use. Just as important in this role was the otherwise underutilized IEEE 488 port the PET included. Used wisely, the port could be used as a simple "network" and allowed printers and disk drives (at this point in time, very expensive devices) to be shared among all of the machines in the classroom.
Two more machines were released in the PET series. The CBM 8000 included a new display chip which drove a 80x25 character screen, but this resulted in a number of software incompatibilities with programs designed for the 40 column screen, and it appears to have not been popular as a result. The machine shipped with 32K standard as the 8032, but allowed another 64K to be added externally. Later the upgrade was installed from the factory, creating the 8096. Later models used an improved case with a separate keyboard and swivel mount for the monitor, known as the SK's and Execudesk.
The last in the series was the SP9000, known as the SuperPET or MicroMainframe. This machine was designed at the University of Waterloo for teaching programming. In addition to the basic CBM 8000 hardware, the 9000 added a second CPU in the form of the Motorola 6809 and included a number of programming languages including BASIC in ROM for the 6502 and APL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal and a 6809 assembler on floppies for the 6809. It also included a terminal program which allowed the machine to be used as a "smart terminal" as well, so this single machine could replace many of the boxes currently in use at the university. Additionally this machine became a remote development environment where the user could later upload their creation to a mainframe after completing development and testing on the SuperPET.
The graphics issue
As a home computer the line was quickly surpassed in sales by machines that included color graphics and sound, mainly the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family and TRS-80. Although color was later solved in the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64, the graphics issue could have been much less annoying if not for one problem -- the character set was "hard wired" in ROM, meaning it could not be changed. On other machines the location of the character graphics could be changed and pointed to RAM, where new characters could be drawn to create graphics. On the upside the PETs used a fairly good set of graphics characters (in their extended ASCII, known as PETSCII) which allowed some rudimentary games to be created.
Model Summary
PET 2001 series / 2001-N & -B series, CBM 3000 series
- CPU: MOS 6502, 1MHz
- RAM: 4K, 8K, or 16K / 8K, 16K, or 32K
- ROM: 18K, including BASIC 1.0 / 20K, including BASIC 2.0 (most CBM's with 3.0)
- Video: MOS 6545, 9" monochrome monitor, 40×25 character display
- Sound: none / single piezo "beeper"
- Ports: MOS 6520 PIA, MOS 6522 VIA, 2 Datassette (1 used / 1 on the back), 1 IEEE-488
- Notes: 69 key chicklet keyboard and built-in Datassette / full-sized, full-travel keyboard, no built-in Datassette
PET 4000 series / CBM 8000 series
- CPU: MOS 6502, 1MHz
- RAM: 8K, 16K or 32K / 32K or 96K
- ROM: 20K, including BASIC 4.0
- Video: MOS 6545, 9" or 12" / 12" monochrome monitor, 40×25 / 80×25 character display
- Sound: single piezo "beeper"
- Ports: MOS 6520 PIA, MOS 6522 VIA, 2 Datassette ports (1 on the back), 1 IEEE-488
- Notes: basically an upgraded 2001 / basically a 4000 with 80 columns and slightly different keyboard with smaller (11 key) numeric pad
SuperPET 9000 series
- CPU: MOS 6502 and Motorola 6809, 1MHz
- RAM: 96K
- ROM: 48K, including BASIC 4.0 and other programming languages
- Video: MOS 6545, 12" monochrome monitor, 80×25 character display
- Sound: single piezo "beeper"
- Ports: MOS 6520 PIA, MOS 6522 VIA, MOS 6551 ACIA, 1 RS-232, 2 Datassette ports (1 on the back), 1 IEEE-488
- Notes: basically an 8000 with ROMs for programming languages, it also had three character sets, and an RS-232 for use as a terminal
PET Trivia
- Seventeen years old at the time, British videogame designer-to-be Jeff Minter taught himself 6502 machine code on his school's PET 2001-8. At twenty Minter founded his own company (still in operation as of 2003), using his PET-obtained skills to develop games on his newly acquired VIC-20, getting his commercial breakthrough with the classic Gridrunner. Later Minter went on to write entertainment software for the C64 as well as many non-Commodore platforms.
External Links
- http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/
- MyPetSupplies.net
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Commodore PET."
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- Positron Emission Tomography
- The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor); see History of computing hardware
- polyethylene terephthalate, a common plastic material
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PET."
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A pet is a domesticated animal that is kept by humans for companionship or for the beauty of its appearance or utterances, rather than for economic reasons.
While in theory one could keep a blue whale as a pet, in practice a small number of species of mammals and birds have dominated the pet scene for a very long time. Fish have joined them more recently. With the exception of iguanas and non-venomous snakes, few reptiles and amphibians make good pets.
Pet species
Mammals
Birds
- Dogs
- Cats
- Rodents, including hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, gerbils, chinchillas, degus, flying squirrelss and rats
- Rabbits
- Ferrets
- Hedgehogs
- Alpacas
- small pigs
- Monkeys
Reptiles
- Budgerigars
- Cockatoos
- Macaws
- and other parrot species
- Canaries and other finch species
- Doves
Fish - see Aquarium
- Lizards
- Iguanas
- Snakes
- Frogs
- Toads
See also: digital pet, How to choose your pet and take care of it The Commodore PET was a home computer of the 1970s
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pet."
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PET scanner, an instrument using positron emission tomography (PET).Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PET scanner."
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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging technique similar to nuclear medicine where radioactive 'tracer' isotopes which emit a positron are injected into a living subject. After travelling less than one millimeter the positron annihilates with an electron, producing a pair of gamma ray photons in opposite directions. The technique depends on simultaneous or "coincidental" detection of this pair of photons: photons which do not come in pairs (within a few nanoseconds) are ignored. By measuring where the gamma rays end up, their origin in the body can be plotted, allowing the chemical uptake or activity of certain part of the body to be determined. It is used heavily in clinical oncology (medical imaging of tumours and search for metastases) and in human brain and heart research.
PET scanning is invasive, in that radioactive material is injected into the subject/patient. However the total dose of radiation is small, usually around 7 mSv. This can be compared to 2.2 mSv average annual background radiation in the UK, 0.02 mSv for a chest X-Ray, up to 8 mSv for a CT scan of the chest, 2-6 mSv per annum for aircrew, and 7.8 mSv per annum background exposure in Cornwall (Data from UK National Radiation Protection Board).
Alternative methods of scanning are Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The spatial and temporal resolution of images developed using PET may not be as good as with some of the other techniques.
However, while other imaging scans such as CT and MRI, isolate organic anatomical changes in the body, PET scanners are capable of detecting areas of molecular biology detail (even prior to anatomical change) via the use of radioisotopes that have different rates of uptake depending on the type of tissue involved. The changing of regional blood flow in various anatomical structures (as a measure of the injected positron emitter) can be visualized and relatively quantified with a PET scan.
Radionuclides used in PET scanning are typically isotopes with short half lives such as Carbon-11, Nitrogen-13, Oxygen-15, and Fluorine-18 (half-lives of 20 min, 10 min, 2 min, and 110 min respectively). Due to their short half lives, the isotopes must be produced in a cyclotron at or near the site of the PET scanner. These isotopes are incorporated into compounds normally used by the body such as glucose, water or ammonia and then injected into the body to trace where they become distributed.
PET as a technique for scientific investigation is limited by the need for clearance by ethics committees to inject radioactive material into subjects, and also by the fact that it is not advisable to subject any one subject to too many scans. Furthermore, due to the high costs of cyclotrons needed to produce the short-lived radioisotopes for PET scanning, few hospitals and universities are capable of performing PET scans.
Applications of PET scanning
PET is a valuable technique for some diseases and disorders, because it is possible to target the radio-chemicals used for particular bodily functions.
- Oncology: PET scanning with the tracer (18F)fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG, FDG-PET) is widely used in clinical oncology. This tracer mimics glucose and is avidly taken up and retained by most tumours. As a result FDG-PET can be used for diagnosis, staging, and monitoring treatment of cancers. However because individual scans are more expensive than conventional imaging with CT and MRI, expansion of FDG-PET in cost-constrained health services will depend on proper Health Technology Assessment.
- Neurology: PET scanning of the brain is based on an assumption that areas of high radioactivity are associated with brain activity. What is actually measured indirectly is the flow of blood to different parts of the brain, which is generally believed to be correlated, and usually measured using the tracer (15O)oxygen.
- Cardiology: In clinical cardiology FDG-PET can identify so-called "hibernating myocardium", but its cost-effectiveness in this role versus SPECT is unclear.
- Psychology: To measure neurological activity in amnesiac patients, as in Shaheen Lakhan's review on source amnesia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Positron emission tomography."
| 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 |
PET | Danish | Potentiel evapotranspiration | Environment, Geography |
pet | English | Polyethylene terephthalate | Chemistry |
PET | French | Partenariat économique transatlantique | Economics |
PET | German | Polyaethylenterephthalat | Chemistry |
PET | Greek | τομογραφία εκπομπής ποζιτρονίων | Medicine |
PET | Italian | Tomografia a emissione di positroni | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PetSynonyms: favored (adj), favorite(a) (adj), favourite(a) (adj), preferred (adj), darling (n), dearie (n), deary (n), ducky (n), favorite (n), favourite (n), positron emission tomography (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness. |
Favorite | Teacher's pet. |
Noun: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata. | |
Flatterer | Yes-man, suckup,yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet. |
Flattery | Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust. |
Love | Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet. |
Loved; Verb: beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular. | |
Resentment | Excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) She's a predator posing as a house pet. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) A mouse with a pet cat (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Nope. My friend Harry and I are saving up money for a pet store (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk) | |
Lyrics | YOU'RE MY BABY, YOU'RE MY PET, (You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine); performing artist: Ringo Starr) You think that you're his pet Pekinese (EMOTIONAL RESCUE; performing artist: Rolling Stones) Don’t ease the tension just run the program gal wan pet it (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL) To be the teacher's pet (Don't Stand So Close To Me; performing artist: The Police) If I have to watch another stupid pet trick (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Clever | Sign in pet store: "Buy one dog, get one flea. (references; author: unknown) Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pet muzu a jedno srdce (1971) The Pet Set (1971) Pet holek na krku (1967) Zemlja sa pet kontinenta (1961) Pet z miliónu (1959) | |
Song Titles | Always On My Mind (performing artist: Pet Shop Boys) West End Girls (performing artist: Pet Shop Boys) What Have I Done To Deserve This? (performing artist: Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting reading a story to her pet bird. She is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Several young children can be seen playing with toy trucks and their pet rabbits. They are outdoors on a summer day, building a play construction site. A farmstyle house and mountains can be seen in the background. These people are part of a large Mormon family who are being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Shown is a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of a 17 year old girl with a longstanding history of epilepsy, who has a brain tumor classified as a grade 1 astrocytoma. The PET scan indicates that the tumor is not metabolizing excess glucose and is therefore benign. PET scans allow doctors to tell if a tumor is malignant without resorting to a surgical biopsy. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Crewman Alaskin with pet blue fox on shoulder At shore camp off the PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A "tame" coyote - party pet Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | One dog I didn't try to pet Drying fish, fish nets, and an underutilized husky. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Philip Crosby with a pet monkey On the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | George L. Anderson with a pet monkey On the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Black bear cub on the SURVEYOR Made a pet but fell off ship during storm. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Menhaden fishing - menhaden in the hold of the mother vessel. These fish are used for fertilizer and pet food. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Pet" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Fits!." | "Gecko" by Kimmo Kuisma Commentary: "My pet giant madagascar day gecko morris." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Lap; drink; lapping; water; refreshment; dog; canine; pet; sip; lick; sipping; cool off. | | Tweet; pet shop; aviary; . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Billy Graham | A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming a pet attitude |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Eat Here and Keep Your Wife for a Pet. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | PET works on a simple principle. (references) | |
PET scan - see positron emission tomography. (references) | ||
Get your pet vaccinated against leptospirosis. (references) | ||
Business | For example, Eastman Chemical's new PET container plant will both create increased local demand for PET containers and reduce import demand. (references) | |
The advantages to PET over aluminum are that PET bottles are unbreakable, resealable, a lighter weight which helps in lowering transport costs, and can also be recycled. (references) | ||
The Argentine overall packaging industry reached sales of US$5 billion during 1999, representing 1.5 percent of the Argentine GDP. The main packaging materials used were aluminum cans, PET packaging and aerosols, with an increased use of plastic, tin and polypropylene. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | The total market for pet products is heavily concentrated (over 84%) in the industrialized food segment and the balance of 16% is accounted for by hundreds of accessories, medicines, and hygienic products. (references) |
Kiribati | Other exports include pet fish, shark fins, and seaweed. (references) | |
Italy | Quality U.S. pet food has developed a profitable market share in Italy. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | U.S. exporters of beef, poultry, pork and horsemeat are not able to ship to the Czech Republic due to concerns about special risk materials shared by the EU. In November 2000, reacting to the EU BSE outbreak, the Czech State Veterinary Administration prohibited specific risks' materials usage in pet food, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) cannot guarantee that U.S. pet food producers meet this requirement. (references) |
CZECH REPUBLIC | Another problem with the pet food certificate is the bacterial testing requirement, which is stricter in the Czech Republic than in the EU. APHIS is currently in the process of negotiating possible changes to the Czech veterinary requirements A final bill in line with EU directives to regulate Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) entered into force January 1, 2001, including decrees regulating new GMO varieties for field testing that the Czech Republic continues to approve. (references) | |
ITALY | Import regulations for products containing meat and/or blood products, particularly animal and pet food, have become more stringent in response to concerns over transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | The exports are subject to certain conditions, such as registration with the Export Promotion Bureau, and permission from government departments: cotton, rice, metals, arms, ammunition and explosives, complete rocket and unmanned air vehicle systems, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones and gold jewelry, poppy seeds, urea, pet dogs and cats, and wild boars, including meat and hides. (references) |
Thailand | Phytosanitary standards continue to be a source of concern for the United States . For example, Thailand requires certification that the U.S. is free of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) . Although trade has not been significantly affected to date, Thailand wants the U.S. to provide a statement of specific rendering procedures used in order to determine that these procedures are sufficient to inactivate the BSE agent in such products as meat and bone meal which is used for animal feed and in manufacturing pet food. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Barker | Bob Barker reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. Good bye, everybody. |
Jack Hanna | Well, some people do. And you always handle a snack with two hands so you don't break his back. Always remember that. If you have a pet snake, when you ever get one, just pick him up with two hands. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For years, Congress concealed in the budget scores of pet spending projects. |
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| "Pet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.38% of the time. "Pet" is used about 834 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) | 68.38% | 570 | 11,057 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.71% | 223 | 20,178 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.92% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.68% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.84% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.48% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 834 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Central Garden & Pet Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pet": be in a pet ♦ he is a real pet ♦ in a pet ♦ it is his pet subject ♦ make a pet of smb. ♦ one's pet aversion ♦ pet animals ♦ pet aversion ♦ pet cock ♦ pet dog ♦ pet food ♦ pet market ♦ pet name ♦ pet panther ♦ pet peeve ♦ pet project ♦ PET scan ♦ pet scanner ♦ pet shop ♦ pet subject ♦ pet word ♦ smb.'s pet hate ♦ take pet at smth. ♦ teacher's pet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pet": pet-ambulance, pet-a-torn, pet-crazy, pet-food, pet-hate, pet-his, pet-hood, pet-lovers, pet-names, pet-owner, pet-owners, pet-seekers, pet-shops. | |
Ending with "pet": Adopt-a-pet. | |
| 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 |
pet | 52,534 | pet tag | 1,066 |
pet supply | 8,890 | pet lover | 1,044 |
pet cat | 6,062 | penthouse pet | 1,040 |
virtual pet | 3,810 | pet id | 1,002 |
pet store | 3,430 | pet lover gift | 975 |
dog pet | 3,401 | pet finder | 947 |
pet name | 3,348 | exotic pet | 918 |
pet portrait | 3,089 | pet door | 841 |
pet insurance | 2,645 | pet smart | 828 |
pet adoption | 1,777 | pet food | 803 |
pet meds | 1,666 | adopt a pet | 769 |
pet toy | 1,508 | pet shop boy | 729 |
pet medication | 1,462 | pet for sale | 696 |
pet shop | 1,396 | pet scan | 664 |
pet health | 1,270 | pet carrier | 650 |
pet care | 1,256 | pet monument | 649 |
pet product | 1,234 | pet turtle | 594 |
pet bird | 1,164 | pet grooming | 580 |
pet friendly hotel | 1,129 | discount pet supply | 549 |
pet medicine | 1,115 | neo pet | 537 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pakënaqësi (catcall, complaint, disaffection, discontent, discontentment, disgust, displeasure, dissatisfaction, grouch, pique), përkëdhel (canoodle, caress, cosher, dandle, fondle, pamper, play about, spoon feed, stroke), manar, llastoj (cosher, featherbed, grandmother, indulge, pamper), lëmoj (burnish, civilize, clean, dub, even, finish, grind, polish, smooth), kafshë shtëpie, i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, queer, racy, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i përkëdheluri, i përkëdhelur (caressing), gërnjë, fërkoj (burnish, caress, massage, rasp, rub, rub down, shine), ankim (cavil, complaint, grievance, nagging, peeve, whine). (various references) | |
Arabic | نوبة غضب (huff, mood, tantrum), لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), لامس (touch off), لاطف (be nice, caress, comply, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, molly-coddle, treat well, treat with kindness), حيوان مدلل, غنج (coquetry, flirtation, rascaldom), غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), غازل (court, dally, flirt, make a pass at, make out, mash, philander, spoon, sue), عانق (caress, clasp, cuddle, embrace, enfold, fold, grasp, hug, lock, neck, press), طفل مدلل (wanton), جس (feel, necking, palpate, palpation, paw, ply, probe, probing, touch), ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry), دلل (cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, dandle, fondle, indulge, molly-coddle, mother, pamper, spoil, spoon feed), دلع (make a pet of smb., molly-coddle, mother), داعب (dally, slobber, stroke, tickle). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sskáni'taam. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | галеник (darling, white-headed boy), прегръщам (canoodle, clasp, clinch, cling, cradle, cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enfold, fold, inarm), лошо настроение (doldrums, grouch, hump, ill humor, ill humour, mumps, petulance, spleen), любим (beloved, darling, dear, favorite, favourite, inamorato, love, lover, mash, paramour, precious, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, true love, well-beloved), любимец (darling, favorite, favourite, fondling, minion, nursling, white-headed boy), любя се, милвам (caress, fondle, nurse, stroke), домашно галено животно, глезя (cosher, cosset, dandle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, slop over, spoil), сърдя се (be angry, sulk), галено дете (cosset), галя (canoodle, caress, cosset, flatter, fondle, kiss, neck, nurse), цупене (black dog, pout, sulks, tiff), цупя се (grump, pucker, sulk, tiff), чедо (child), рожба (birth, child, growth, issue, product), сръдня (huff, temper), обичан. (various references) | |
Chinese | 宠物. (various references) | |
Czech | oblíbený (favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, popular), miláèek (darling, dear, favorite, favourite, heartthrob, honey, inamorato, love, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, Valentine), mazlit se (caress, cuddle, play), mazlíèek, domácí zvíře (domestic animal). (various references) | |
Danish | selskabsdyr (household pet, pet animals), kæledyr (domestic animal), forkæle (coddle, pamper). (various references) | |
Dutch | vertroetelen (coddle, pamper), troetelen (coddle, pamper), koesteren (coddle, incubate, pamper, sit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dorloti (coddle, pamper). (various references) | |
Faeroese | spilla (coddle, damage, destroy, injure, pamper, quash, spoil). (various references) | |
Farsi | معشوقه (Girl, Ladylove, Love, Mistress, Paramour, Peat, Stallion, Sweetheart), نوازش کردن (Baby, Coax, Coddle, Cuddle, Pat, Stroke), حیوان اهلی منزل , سوگلی (Favorite), عزیز (Chary, Darling, Dear, Lief, Turtledove), دست اموز, بنازپروردن (Pamper). (various references) | |
Finnish | lemmikkieläin (domestic animal), lellipoika (favourite), lellikki (favourite), hyväillä (caress, chuck, fondle, stroke), hellitellä (coddle, fondle). (various references) | |
French | dorloter, choyer, animal de compagnie (household pet). (various references) | |
German | streicheln (caress, chuck, fondle, stroke, to stroke), Liebling (darling, dove, ducky, favorite, favourite, honey, love, minion, sweet, sweetheart), haustier (domestic animal), hätscheln (cherish, coddle, cuddle, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, nurse, nuzzle, pamper, to fondle). (various references) | |
Greek | κατοικίδιο ζώο (domestic animal), θωπεύω (caress, cosset, dandle, fondle, stroke). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללטף (caress, fondle, neck, stroke), לפנק (baby, cherish, coddle, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil, spoon feed), להתמזמז (canoodle, dally, flirt, fool around, make out, neck), חית מחמד, חית שעשועים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kedvenc (advantageous, angel, darling, favorite, favourable, favourite, fond). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesayangan (affection, darling, love, sorrow), binatang piaraan, binatang kesayangan. (various references) | |
Italian | preferito (pot), pomiciare (neck, pumice, smooch), tesoro (darling, dear, exchequer, hoard, honey, sweetheart, treasure), fare il petting, coccolare (canoodle, Cocker, coddle, cosher, cosset, cuddle, lap, mollycoddle, pamper), beniamino, animale domestico, animale de compagnia (household pet), animale da compagnia (domestic animal), animale da appartamento (domestic animal), ammaestrato (performing, trained), accarezzare (caress, cherish, chuck, fondle, snuggle, stroke). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | お気に入り (favorite), ペスト菌 (pedal, pedantic, pedantism, pedantry, pessary, PET bottle, pet name, petticoat, petticoat government, petting, petunia, plague bacillus), 気に入り (favorite), 愛玩動物 , 御気に入り (favorite), 可愛い (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pretty). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おきにいり (favorite), ペット (nut), きにいり (favorite), かわいい (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pretty), かわゆい (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pretty), あいがんどうぶつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 애완 동물. (various references) | |
Manx | stroogey (smooth; trail, smooth; trail feet, stroke), smorig (huff, pip, touchiness), meen (bland, darling, dear, patient, quiet, sweet), meein (bland, clement, fine, gentle, Halcyon days, silky, smooth, soft, tame not wild; assuage pain; small ground, tame; assuage; small ground), jannoo biggin jeh, bigginagh (petted), biggin (spoiled child), baagh (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skjemme (blemish, coddle, pamper). (various references) | |
Papago | tahtam (to feel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | querido (beloved, cherished, darling, dear, duck, ducky, honey, inamorato, lovely, sweeting, wanted), favorito (favorite, favourite, minion), animal de estimação (darling), afagar (canoodle, caress, cherish, chuck, cotton, cotton on, embosom, fondle, hug, pamper, pat, stroke), acariciar (blandish, canoodle, caress, cherish, chuck, dandle, embosom, fawn, fondle, hug, neck, nestle, nurse, paddle, pamper, stroke). (various references) | |
Romanian | toane (moodiness, tantrum), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), se sãruta (kiss), se drãgosti (smooch), rãsfãţat (darling, effeminate, minion), rãsfãţa (amuse, caress, Cocker, coddle, cosher, dandle, divert, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil), mîngîia (caress, chuck, coddle, fondle, pamper, stroke), mângâia (caress, chuck, chuckle, comfort, cosset, delight, fondle, pander to, Pat, relieve, smooth, solace, soothe, stroke), fi supãrat, favorit (cosset, darling, favorite, favourite, minion), drag (affection, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, expensive, favorite, favourite, honey, love, lovely, precious, sake, shine, valuable), dezmierda (blandish, caress, chuck, cosher, cosset, delight, divert, flatter, fondle, smooth, stroke), copil drag, animal favorit, alinta (caress, Cocker, coddle, fondle, gambol, pamper, swing). (various references) | |
Russian | скверное настроение, ручной (domestic, hand, handheld, manual, pencil-and-paper, tame), любимый (beloved, darling, dear, fair haired, fancied, favorite, favourite, precious, turtle-dove), любимое животное, любимец (cosset, fondling, nurseling), ласкать (canoodle, caress, cosher, dandle, fondle), баловень (coddle, cosset, minion), баловать....домашнее животное, баловать (coddle, cosher, featherbed, grandmother, overinduldge, pamper, spoil), домашнее животное, домашний (domestic, domiciliary, home, home grown, home-brewed, homelike, homely, homemade, homey, homy). (various references) | |
Scottish | Peigi (pet form of Margaret), peata (a pet), ciora (a pet lamb or sheep). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omiljen (beloved, fair haired, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, popular), milovati (caress, cuddle, fondle, nurse, palm), maziti (cosher, cuddle, fondle), ljubimac (darling, favorite, favourite, mignonette, minion), kućni ljubimac, gladiti (stroke), šašoljiti (grabble). (various references) | |
Spanish | ojo derecho (blue-eyed boy), mimar (canoodle, coax, coddle, cosset, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, mother, pamper, spoil, spoon feed, wait on), mimado (babied, coaxing, daintily, indulged, spoiled), estar enfadado, el animal dome/stico, animal favorito, animal doméstico (domestic animal), animal de compañía (domestic animal, household pet), acariciarse (neck), acariciar (canoodle, caress, chuck, cuddle, fawn on, fondle, hug, Pat, snuggle, stroke, tickle, toy with). (various references) | |
Swedish | kela (canoodle, coddle, cuddle, pamper), sällskapsdjur (domestic animal), älsklingsdjur. (various references) | |
Turkish | sinir (fury, nerve, nervous, neural, sinew, tantrum, temper), sevmek (affect, be fond of, be sweet on smb., care, caress, dandle, enjoy, fancy, fondle, like, love), sevişmek (bang, bill, have sex, jump, lay, lie with, make love, shag, sleep with), sevgili (beau, beloved, concubine, darling, dear, dearie, deary, dove, doxy, duck, duckie, ducky, fancy man, favorite, favourite, feller, fellow, flame, gallant, Gill, girl, inamorata, inamorato, Jill, ladylove, love, loved, lover, paramour, precious, queen, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, Truelove, well-beloved), okşamak (canoodle, caress, dandle, fondle, grope, Pat, stroke), kıymetli (dear, precious, valuable, valued), gözde (blue boy, dearest, fair boy, favorite, favourite, minion, preffered), evcil hayvan (domestic animal), evcil (domestic, domesticated, housebroken, tame), ev hayvanı, el üstünde tutmak (do smb. proud, show great respect), şımartmak (baby, coddle, cosher, cosset, dandle, feather bed, indulge, pamper, spoil, spoonfeed), öfke (anger, berserker rage, choler, displeasure, dudgeon, exasperation, flare, flare up, frenzy, fume, fury, heat, huffiness, indignation, ire, irritation, pash, passion, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, storm, temper, wax, wrath). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sypalamak (smooth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | улюбленець (cosset, darling, favorite, favourite, fondling, minion, particular), улюблений (beloved, fancied, favorite, favourite, minion, white), роздратуванни, голубити (canoodle, caress, cosset), пестунчик (nurseling, nursling, sissy), пестливий, пестити (brood, canoodle, caress, cherish, cosher, cosset, dandle, embosom, fondle, groom, nourish, nurse, nuzzle, pettle, spoil), домашній (barn-door, home, homelike, homely, homey, homy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | yêu quý (darling), vật cưng người yêu quý, cơn giận dỗi con vật yêu quý, cơn giận (fume, huff, tantrum, temper). (various references) | |
Welsh | swci (tame), mwytho (fondle, pamper), maldodi (indulge, pamper), llywaeth (hand-fed, tame), babanu (grow childish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deliciis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pet": petal, petaled, petaline, petalled, petallike, petalodies, petalody, petaloid, petalous, petals, petard, petards, petasos, petasoses, petasus, petasuses, petcock, petcocks, petechia, petechiae, petechial, peter, petered, petering, peters, petiolar, petiolate, petiole, petioled, petioles, petiolule, petiolules, petit, petite, petiteness, petitenesses, petites, petition, petitionary, petitioned, petitioner, petitioners, petitioning, petitions, petnap, petnapped, petnapping, petnaps, petrale, petrales, petrel. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pet": becarpet, carpet, crumpet, lappet, limpet, micropipet, moppet, parapet, pipet, poppet, puppet, recarpet, roupet, sippet, skippet, snippet, strumpet, tappet, tippet, trippet, trumpet, whippet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pet": acropetal, acropetally, anticompetitive, apetalies, apetalous, apetaly, aposiopetic, appetence, appetences, appetencies, appetency, appetent, appetiser, appetisers, appetising, appetite, appetites, appetitive, appetizer, appetizers, appetizing, appetizingly, basipetal, basipetally, becarpeted, becarpeting, becarpets, carpetbag, carpetbagger, carpetbaggeries, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery, carpetbagging, carpetbags, carpeted, carpeting, carpetings, carpets, carpetweed, carpetweeds, centripetal, centripetally, compete, competed, competence, competences, competencies, competency, competent, competently, competes. (additional references) | |
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"Pet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epb, epf, epit, epot, ept, epte, eptu, ipit, oett, opet, paet, patt, pbe, pde, pdt, Peb, pec, pech, pect, ped, peet, Peh, peit, pej, pem, peo, peot, Pepto, peq, peta, peth, peti, petn, peto, pett, petto, petu, pety, peu, pev, pewt, peyt, pez, Pfe, pheet, phet, pheta, pht, pitb, pixt, pjt, plet, plett, plt, pme, poete, Poeth, ppt, prer, prext, prt, pter, ptew, ptr, ptt, ptw, ptx, pvt, pwt, pybt, Pyett, pyt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pet" (pronounced pe"t) |
| 3 | p e" t | pipette. |
| 2 | -e" t | anisette, abet, barbette, barrette, beget, beset, bet, Brunet, brunette, cabriolet, cadet, calumet, cassette, cigarette, clarinet, cornet, coronet, corvette, debt, diskette, duet, et, Falconet, flageolet, forget, fret, Gazette, georgette, get, jet, kitchenette, let, Luncheonette, met, minaret, minuet, net, nett, octet, offset, pirouette, preset, quartet, quintet, regret, reset, Ret, rosette, roulette, set, Sextet, silhouette, sobriquet, statuette, Stet, suffragette, sweat, tet, threat, unmet, unset, upset, vedette, vet, vignette, wet, whet, yet, yett. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-t" | |
-1 letter: et, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-t" | |
+1 letter: kept, lept, pate, peat, pelt, pent, pert, pest, pets, poet, sept, step, tape, temp, tepa, tope, type, wept. | |
+2 letters: adept, apter, clept, crept, depot, depth, empty, epact, erupt, estop, etape, expat, getup, inept, kempt, leapt, lepta, letup, netop, opted, palet, paste, pated, paten, pater, pates, peart, peats, peaty, pelts, pesto, pests, pesty, petal, peter, petit, petti, petto, petty, pewit, pieta, piety, pipet, piste, plate, pleat, poets, prate, prest, repot, septa, septs, setup, slept, spate, spelt, spent, spite, steep, steps, stipe, stope, strep, stupe, swept, taped, taper, tapes, taupe, tempi, tempo, temps, tempt, tepal, tepas, tepee, tepid, tepoy, toped, topee, toper, topes, tophe, tripe, trope, twerp, typed, types, typey, upset. | |
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