cat vs dag

cat

noun
  • An animal of the family Felidae 

  • A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences. 

  • Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species. 

  • A prostitute. 

  • A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. 

  • A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed. 

  • A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers. 

  • A spiteful or angry woman. 

  • A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output. 

  • A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia. 

  • An enthusiast or player of jazz. 

  • A street name of the drug methcathinone. 

  • Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. 

  • A person (usually male). 

  • Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) 

verb
  • To go wandering at night. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead. 

  • To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • To apply the cat command to (one or more files). 

  • To gossip in a catty manner. 

  • To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully. 

adj
  • Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous. 

dag

noun
  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

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