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Definition: Tomcat |
TomcatNoun1. Male cat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tomcat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Note: Tomcat \Tom"cat`\, noun. [Tom (see Tomboy) cat.]. (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.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cat."
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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a United States Navy supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place strike fighter. The Tomcat's primary missions are air superiority, fleet air defense and precision strike against ground targets.
Sailors prepare an F-14 Tomcat for flight on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (year 2003).
Larger version
The F-14 has visual and all-weather attack capability to deliver Phoenix and Sparrow missiles as well as the M-61 gun and Sidewinder missiles for close in air-to-air combat. The F-14 also has the LANTIRN targeting system that allows delivery of various laser-guided bombs for precision strikes in air-to-ground combat missions. The F-14, equipped with Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) is the Navy's only manned tactical reconnaissance platform.
The F-14 entered the fleet in 1973, replacing the F-4 Phantom II. The F-14B, introduced in November 1987, incorporated new General Electric F-110 engines. In 1995, an upgrade program was initiated to incorporate new digital avionics and weapon system improvements to strengthen its multi-mission competitive edge. The F-14D, delivered in 1990, was a major upgrade with F-110 engines, new APG-71 radar system, Airborne Self Protection Jammer (ASPJ), Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) and Infrared Search and Track (IRST). Additionally, all F-14 variants were given precision strike capability using the LANTIRN targeting system, night vision compatibility, new defensive countermeasures systems and a new digital flight control system.
General Characteristics
- Function: Carrier-based multi-role strike fighter
- Contractor: Grumman Aerospace Corporation
- Unit Cost: $38 million
- Propulsion:
- F-14A: Two Pratt and Whitney TF-30P-414A turbofan engine with afterburners
- F-14B and F-14D: Two General Electric F110-GE-400 turbofan engines with afterburners
- Thrust:
- TF-30P-414A: 20,900 pounds (9,405 kg) static thrust per engine
- F110-GE-400: 27,000 pounds (12,150 kg) static thrust per engine
- Length: 61 feet 9 inches (18.6 meters)
- Height: 16 feet (4.8 meters)
- Maximum Takeoff Weight: 72,900 pounds (32,805 kg)
- Wingspan: 64 feet (19 meters) unswept, 38 feet (11.4 meters) swept
- Ceiling: Above 50,000 feet
- Speed: Mach 2+
- Crew: Two: pilot and radar intercept officer(RIO)
- Armament: Up to 13,000 pounds to include AIM-54 Phoenix missile, AIM-7 Sparrow missile, AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, air-to-ground precision strike ordnance, and one M61A1/A2 Vulcan 20mm cannon.
- First flight: December 1970
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "F-14 Tomcat."
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Tomcat is a servlet container developed under the Jakarta Project at the Apache Software Foundation. Tomcat is an implementation of the Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems.
Tomcat runs with any web server that supports servlets and JSPs. Tomcat comes with the Jasper compiler that compiles JSPs into servlets. Tomcat servlet engine on Apache webserver is an often used combination. Tomcat is also an independent web server in itself and is used in development environments where there are no requirements for speed and transaction handling. Since Tomcat is written in Java, it runs on any operating system that has a JVM.
Tomcat is being developed and maintained by members of the Apache Software Foundation and independent volunteers. The source code and binary form of Tomcat is free under the Apache Software Licence. Tomcat 4.x is the latest production quality release, and it implements the Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications. As of version 4.x, Jakarta Tomcat uses the Catalina servlet container. Tomcat 5.x is still under development.
Following are the details of the directory hierarchy of a Tomcat installation :
- bin/ - startup, shutdown and other scripts and executables
- common/ - common classes that can be used by Catalina and web applications
- conf/ - XML files and related DTDs to configure Tomcat
- logs/ - Catalina and application logs
- server/ - classes used only by Catalina
- shared/ - classes shared by all web applications
- webapps/ - directory containing the web applications
- work/ - temporary storage for files and directories
History
Tomcat started off as a servlet specification implementation by James Duncan Davidson who was a software architect at Sun. He later helped in making the project open-source and in its donation by Sun to the Apache Software Foundation. James had initially hoped that the project would be open-sourced, and since most open-source projects had O'reilly books on them with an animal on the cover, he wanted to name the project after an animal. He came up with Tomcat since he reasoned the animal represented something that could take care and fend for itself.
External link
- http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat - Official Tomcat website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jakarta Tomcat."
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A tomcat is a male cat.In Java computer programming contexts, Tomcat may refer to Jakarta Tomcat.
In military aviation contexts, Tomcat may refer to the F-14 Tomcat.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tomcat."
| 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 |
TOMCAT | English | Theater-of-operations missile continuous-wave anti-tank | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TomcatSynonym: tom (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tomcat |
| English words defined with "tomcat": gib. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tomcat Combat (1959) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) Tomcat Angels (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tomcat Clover (Trifolium willdenovii) at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Hissing; hiss; hisses; cat; cats; cat fight; feline; tomcat; alley cat. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tomcat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tomcat" is used about 24 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) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
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 "tomcat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | maçok (cat, Gib). (various references) | |
Arabic | هر (cat, gib, growl, grumble, puss), قط (cat, never, not ever, puss), ذكر القط. (various references) | |
Czech | kocour (tom cat). (various references) | |
Farsi | گربه نر. (various references) | |
French | matou (tom, tom cat), courir les filles. (various references) | |
German | Kater (hangover, male cat, male-cat). (various references) | |
Greek | γάτοσ (cat, purr), αίλουροσ (wild cat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חתול "בר (bobcat, wildcat). (various references) | |
Italian | micio (puss, pussycat), gatto maschile. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雄猫 (male cat), 牡猫 , "猫 (male cat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おすね" (male cat), おね" (male cat). (various references) | |
Manx | collagh kayt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omcattay.(various references) | |
Romanian | motan (grimalkin, he-cat, tom cat). (various references) | |
Russian | кот (cat, male cat, tom cat, tom-cat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mačak (tom cat). (various references) | |
Spanish | gato (cat, jack, moneybag, tickle). (various references) | |
Swedish | hankatt (Tom). (various references) | |
Turkish | erkek kedi (he-cat, Tom). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кіт (cat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | cater. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tomcat": tomcats, tomcatted, tomcatting. (additional references) | |
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"Tomcat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: domkat, otomat, Roncato, timac, tomac, tomat, Tomczak, Torcato, Torcuato. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tomcat" (pronounced tÄ"mka't) |
| 3 | -k a' t | bobcat, copycat, polecat, pussycat, wildcat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cotta. | |
-2 letters: atom, coat, coma, matt, moat, mott, taco, tact. | |
-3 letters: act, att, cam, cat, cot, mac, mat, moa, moc, mot, oat, oca, tam, tao, tat, tom, tot. | |
-4 letters: am, at, ma, mo, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: mattock, tomcats. | |
+2 letters: amitotic, factotum, mattocks, outmatch, stomatic. | |
+3 letters: atomistic, automatic, catamount, combatant, combatted, committal, commutate, factotums, manicotti, microwatt, octameter, scotomata, tomcatted, triatomic. | |
+4 letters: asymptotic, automatics, cantonment, catamounts, coadmitted, combatants, combatting, commentate, committals, commutated, commutates, commutator, compactest, compatriot, gametocyte, hematocrit, hemostatic, malcontent, mastectomy, masticator, meritocrat, microstate, microwatts, mycetomata, nematocyst, octameters, outmatched, outmatches, postatomic, postimpact, tachometer, tautomeric, timocratic, tomcatting, trichromat. | |
| 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. | |
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