(n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
(n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
(n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
(n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
(n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
(n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.
(v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(4) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
(5) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(6) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(7) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(8) In Group B, at 1, 2, 4, 9 and 12 months post infection two cats were necropsied.
(9) Additionally, cats excreted the taurine conjugate of hydratropic acid.
(10) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(11) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(12) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(13) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(14) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(15) Moreover, 8 of 10 cats in the 10% HAES group showed extravasation of red cells.
(16) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(17) Pharmacokinetics of 3H-dihydrodigoxin and 3H-digoxin after single intravenous and intraduodenal administration in cats are compared.
(18) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(19) When PCR products in each of the 12 cats were subjected to a second amplification using the same primer pair (two-step amplification: double PCR), FIV proviral DNA was detected in all of the cats.
(20) Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from 9 dogs and 4 cats, and staphylococcus epidermidis from 7 dogs and 5 cats.
Raton
Definition:
(n.) A small rat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thank you.” Grande returned to her home town of Boca Raton in Florida on Tuesday.
(2) Final debate The third and final presidential debate will be held next Monday at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida.
(3) Obama spent the weekend in debate rehearsal at Camp David, while Romney held his last fundraising event at a donor's home in Palm Beach, Florida, freeing himself for debate preparation at a hotel in Boca Raton and the campaign sprints that will follow.
(4) Updated at 6.48pm BST 6.34pm BST At the behest of Mitt Romney himself, in one hour Mother Jones will release the full video of his remarks at a Boca Raton fundraiser, with a running time of nearly 50 minutes.
(5) Then there's Romney's claim in a secretly filmed video at a dinner for donors in Boca Raton, Florida, that if his Mexican-born father had native parents instead of American expatriates: "I'd have a better shot of winning this."
(6) Monday's debate, due to be held in Boca Raton, Florida, and moderated Bob Schieffer of CBS News, is dedicated solely to foreign affairs.
(7) Romney and Obama now have a presidential debate victory apiece going into the final one, usually the most watched of the three, in Boca Raton, Florida, on Monday.
(8) To determine if the nonthrombotic occlusion of venous outflow by the pregnant uterus might alter the performance of light-reflection rheography, we examined 17 normal patients with a vascular Accuscan (Hemodynamics, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla.) in the third trimester of pregnancy and 11 patients during the early second trimester.
(9) The 90-minute Boca Raton debate will be devoted to foreign affairs.
(10) The two candidates go into Monday's debate in Boca Raton, Florida, with Romney having won with a knock-out in the first in Denver and Obama winning on points in the second in Hempstead, New York.
(11) Going into the debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, Obama had an inbuilt advantage on foreign policy and security.
(12) But Schieffer's huge experience reporting on Washington means he should certainly be well placed to chair Tuesday's debate in Boca Raton, Florida, and his easygoing demeanour should mean he is able to handle any criticism that comes thereafter.
(13) He and Obama go into the third and final presidential debate, in Boca Raton, Florida, on Monday, having won one debate each.
(14) Updated at 5.52pm BST 5.17pm BST He puts the fun in fundraiser: The host of the $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton dinner where the Romney tapes were recorded, hedge funder Marc Leder, is unalike the Republican candidate in that he has hosted parties detailed in the New York Post with phrases such as "guests cavorted nude in a pool and performed sex acts."