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# cat

«cat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small furry animal that people keep as a pet; it has…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cat, cats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cat is a small furry animal that people keep as a pet; it has whiskers, claws and a long tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#m1)

2) A cat is any animal of the cat family, like a lion, tiger or leopard («big cats»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

animals counted; legs, food per cat; in science, cats are mammals and hunters; phrases «let the cat out of the bag» (tell a secret), «raining cats and dogs» (raining hard), «curiosity killed the cat»

### examples

- There are 4 cats. How many legs? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x1)
- Each cat eats 2 cans of food a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x2)
- She has 3 cats and 2 dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x3)
- 5 cats went outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x4)
- The cat purred on my lap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x5)
- Lions and tigers are big cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x6)
- It's raining cats and dogs! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x7)
- Our cat catches mice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x8)
- Don't pull the cat's tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x9)
- He let the cat out of the bag about the surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/#x10)

### note

Just a thing counted; each cat has 4 legs. Trap: cats and dogs added together are «pets», not cats. A young cat is a kitten. Some people are allergic to cats.

### In the corpora

- [An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/11/)
- [On matters of taste, like cats versus dogs, there is no single right answer, so bots usually avoid taking sides.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/17/)
- [Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/16/)
- [Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/12/)
- [Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.