cat vs dragon

cat

noun
  • A spiteful or angry woman. 

  • 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 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. 

  • An animal of the family Felidae 

  • 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.) 

adj
  • Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous. 

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. 

dragon

noun
  • A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan. 

  • In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath. 

  • A background process similar to a daemon. 

  • A Komodo dragon. 

  • Something very formidable or dangerous. 

  • The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China. 

  • A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. 

  • A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong. 

  • In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent. 

  • Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona. 

  • A variety of carrier pigeon. 

  • A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. 

  • A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. 

  • The constellation Draco. 

  • A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent. 

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