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The correct spelling is cats.

How to pronounce cats

noun

IPA: /kæts/

Say it like: Cat-s

The correct spelling is cats. An animal of the family Felidae: For example: "a carrier's bow cats"

Usage Examples

a carrier's bow cats

I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.

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.

Meanings

noun

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

verb

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

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