Cats

/kæts/

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:7 pts4 letters

Definition of Cats

noun

An animal of the family Felidae:
A person:
A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").

verb

To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
To vomit.
To go wandering at night.
To gossip in a catty manner.

noun

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

verb

To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

noun

A catapult.
"a carrier's bow cats"

noun

Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

noun

A twin-hulled ship or boat.
A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
An old kind of fireship.

noun

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
"I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel."
A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
"Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid."

noun

Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth

noun

Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
Such a fake profile.

Anagrams of Cats

Exact Anagrams

3 words using all 4 letters:

Words You Can Make

8 words can be made from the letters in "cats":

4-LETTER WORDS

3-LETTER WORDS

act cat sac sat tas

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "cats" and rearranging:

+ecaste cates cesta taces

+ncanst cants scant

+oascot coast coats costa tacos

Related Word Patterns

CA...Words starting with "ca"...TSWords ending with "ts"All 4-letter words Unscramble "cats"

Synonyms & Antonyms

SYNONYMS

saber-toothsaber-toothed catfelinefeline catpantherinepantherine catcaniformiacarnivorancat-likefeliformfeloidjaguarleopardlionpanther

Rhyming Words

abandonments abasements abashments abatements abbots abducts aberrants abetments abets abiogenists ablauts ableists abluents abolishments abolitionists+5 more

Related Words

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