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Meaning:

acronym:

  • Cambridge Antibody Technology
  • Canadian Achievement Tests
  • Career Aptitude Test
  • Centre for Alternative Technology
  • chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
  • Citizens Area Transit
  • Citizenship Advancement Training
  • Civil Air Transport
  • Clear air turbulence
  • Coital Alignment Technique
  • Common Admission Test
  • Computed axial tomography
  • Computer-adaptive test
  • Computer Aided Transceiver
  • Computer Aided Translation
  • Computer-assisted translation
  • conidial anastomosis tube
  • Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
  • Counter Assault Team
  • Credit Authorization Terminal
  • crisis assessment team

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Adjective:

  • informal terrible, disastrous.

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Noun:

  • A catamaran.
  • A catfish.
  • A domesticated species Felis silvestris of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. from 8th c.
  • An enthusiast or player of jazz.
  • Any similar animal of the family ''Felidae'', which includes lions, tigers, etc.
  • now only in "catboat".
  • uncountable The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
  • uncountable The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
  • computing A ?catenate? program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to an output device.
  • from earlier 13th c.
  • nautical A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
  • nautical Contraction of cat-o'-nine-tails.
  • slang Any of a variety of earth-moving machines.
  • slang A person (usually male).
  • Prostitute]]. {{defdate|from at least early 15th c.
  • slang The Caterpillar brand of heavy machinery.

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Proper noun:

  • A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

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Verb:

  • _|slang To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
  • computing To apply the '''cat''' command to (a file).
  • nautical To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  • nautical To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
  • slang To vomit something.

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