Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 28
Catchword (n.) (Print.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
Catchword (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.
Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
Catchwork (n.) A favorite saying of a sect or political group [syn: motto, slogan, catchword, shibboleth].
Catchwork (n.) A word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page [syn: guide word, guideword, catchword].
Cate (n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates. Catechetic
Computer Aided Test Engineering
CATE
(CATE) CASE methods applied to electronics testing and linked to CAE. (2007-05-03)
Catechetic (a.) Alt. of Catechetical.
Catechetical (a.) Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.
Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. -- Addison.
Catechetic (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism; "the catechistic method" [syn: catechistic, catechetic].
Catechetic (a.) Of or relating to or involving catechesis [syn: catechetical, catechetic].
Catechetically (adv.) In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.
Catechetics (n.) The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
Catechin (n.) (Chem.) One of the tannic acids ({C15H14O6), extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, catechinic acid, cyanidol, and catechuin. It is a flavonoid found generally in higher woody plants, and is used in dyeing and tanning.
Catechin (n.) A tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance.
Catechisation (n.) The act of catechising.
Catechised (imp. & p. p.) of Catechise.
Catechising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catechise.
Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.
Catechise (v. t.) To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct. -- Swift.
Catechise (v.) Give religious instructions to [syn: catechize, catechise].
Catechise (v.) Examine through questioning and answering [syn: catechize, catechise].
Catechiser (n.) One who catechises.
Catechism (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
Catechism (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms. -- Hooker.
The Larger Catechism, The Shorter Catechism. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.
Catechism (n.) A series of question put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views.
Catechism (n.) An elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers
Catechismal (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
Catechismal (a.) Of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity.
Catechist (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters. Catechistic
Catechist (n.) One who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism).
Catechistic (a.) Alt. of Catechistical.
Catechistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. -- Dr. H. More.
Catechize (v. t.) See Catechise.
Catechize (v.) Examine through questioning and answering [syn: catechize, catechise].
Catechize (v.) Give religious instructions to [syn: catechize, catechise].
Catechu (n.) (Chem.) A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. -- Ure. -- Dunglison.
Catechu (n.) Extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally [syn: black catechu, catechu].
Catechu (n.) East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu [syn: catechu, Jerusalem thorn, Acacia catechu].
Catechuic (a.) Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.
Catechumen (n.) (Eccl.) 受洗前接受教義啟蒙的初學者 One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
Catechumen (n.) A new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte].
Catechumenate (n.) The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
Catechumenical (a.) Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
Catechumenist (n.) A catechumen. -- Bp. Morton.
Categorematic (a.) (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.
Categorematic (a.) Of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition [ant: syncategorematic].
Categorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a category.
Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. -- I. Taylor.
Categorical (a.)
Relating to or included in a category or categories [syn: categorical,
categoric].
Categorical (a.) Not modified or restricted by
reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat
refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional].
Categorically (adv.) Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
Categorically (adv.) In an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges" [syn: flatly, categorically, unconditionally].
Categoricalness (n.) The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. -- A. Marvell.
Categorist (n.) One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. -- Emerson.
Categorize (v. t.) To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Categorize (v.) Place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise].
Categories (n. pl. ) of Category.
Category (n.) (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. -- J. S. Mill.
Category (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. -- De Quincey.
Category (n.) A collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category, family].
Category (n.) A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme.
Category, () A category K is a collection of objects, obj(K), and morphisms (or "{arrows"> a collection of morphisms (or "{arrows"), mor(K) such that.
Category, () Each morphism f has a "typing" on a pair of objects A, B written f:A->B. This is read 'f is a morphism from A to B'. A is the "source" or "{domain" of f and B is its "target" or "{co-domain".
Category, () There is a partial function on morphisms called composition and denoted by an infix ring symbol, o. We may form the "composite" g o f : A -> C if we have g:B->C and f:A->B.
Category, () This composition is associative: h o (g o f) = (h o g) o f.
Category, () Each object A has an identity morphism id_A:A-> A associated with it. This is the identity under composition, shown by the equations
id__B o f = f = f o id__A.
In general, the morphisms between two objects need not form a set (to avoid problems with Russell's paradox). An example of a category is the collection of sets where the objects are sets and the morphisms are functions.
Sometimes the composition ring is omitted. The use of capitals for objects and lower case letters for morphisms is widespread but not universal. Variables which refer to categories themselves are usually written in a script font. (1997-10-06)
Catel (n.) Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.
"For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. -- Chaucer.
Catelectrode (n.) (Physics) The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. -- Faraday.
Catelectrotonic (a.) (Physics) Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
Catelectrotonus (n.) (Physics) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Catene (n. pl. ) of Catena.
Catena (n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.
I have . . . in no case sought to construct those caten[ae] of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. -- C. J. Ellicott. Catenary
Catenary (a.) Alt. of Catenarian.
Catenarian (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.
Catenary (n.) pl. Catenaries. (Geol.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
Catenary (n.) The curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points.
Catenated (imp. & p. p.) of Catenate.
Catenating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catenate.
Catenate (v. t.) To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. -- E. Darwin.
Catenate (v.) Arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores [syn: catenate, catenulate].
Catenation (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. -- Sir T. Browne.
Catenulate (a.) Consisting of little links or chains.
Catenulate (a.) (Zool.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.
Catenulate (a.) Having a chainlike form; "catenulate bacterial cell colonies" [syn: catenulate, chainlike].
Catenulate (v.) Arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores [syn: catenate, catenulate].
Cater (n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Catered (imp. & p. p.) of Cater.
Catering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cater.
Cater (v. i.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
[He] providently caters for the sparrow. -- Shak.
Cater (v. i.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
Cater (n.) The four of cards or dice.
Cater (v. t.) To cut diagonally. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Cater (v.) Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" [syn: provide, supply, ply, cater].
Cater (v.) Supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets.
Cateran (n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Catercorner (a.) 成對角線的 Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn: catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered].
Cater-cornered (a.) Diagonal. [Colloq.]
Cater-cornered (a.) Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn: catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered].
Catercorner (adv. or a.) (variants: or catercornered) 成對角線的（地），斜的（地） In a diagonal or oblique position; kitty-corner.
// The elaborate water fountain is catercorner to the building's entrance, so it's the first thing you see when you enter the foyer.
Catercorner (a.) Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn: catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered].
Cater-cousin (n.) A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. -- Shak.
Caterer (n.) One who caters.
The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer. -- Shelton.
Caterer (n.) Someone who provides food and service (as for a party).
Cateress (n.) A woman who caters. -- Milton.
Caterpillar (n.) (Zool.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
Caterpillar (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
Caterpillar catcher, or Caterpillar eater (Zool.), A bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds.
Caterpillar hunter (Zool.), Any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabid[ae] which feed habitually upon caterpillars.
Caterpillar (n.) A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.
Caterpillar (n.) A large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work [syn: Caterpillar, cat].
Caterpillar, () The consumer. Used in the Old Testament (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chr. 6:28; Ps. 78:46; Isa. 33:4) as the translation of a word (hasil) the root of which means "to devour" or "consume," and which is used also with reference to the locust in Deut. 28:38. It may have been a species of locust, or the name of one of the transformations through which the locust passes, locust-grub. It is also found (Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 27; R.V., "cankerworm") as the rendering of a different Hebrew word, _yelek_, a word elsewhere rendered "cankerworm" (q.v.), Joel 1:4; 2:25. (See LOCUST.)
Caterwauled (imp. & p. p.) of Caterwaul.
Caterwauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caterwaul.
Caterwaul (v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. -- Coleridge.
Caterwaul (n.) A caterwauling.
Caterwauling (n.) The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. -- Shak.
Catery (n.) The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]
Cates (n.) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. -- Shak.
Cat-eyed (a.) Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
Catfall (n.) (Naut.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. --Totten.
Catfish (n.) (Zool.) 鯰（科）魚 [C] A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat ({Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat ({Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat ({Noturus flavus); the sea cat ({Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
Catfish (n.) Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed [syn: catfish, mudcat].
Catfish (n.) Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, wolf fish, catfish].
Catfish (n.) Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth [syn: catfish, siluriform fish].
Catgut (n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
Catgut (n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
Catgut (n.) Perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone [syn: catgut, goat's rue, wild sweet pea, Tephrosia virginiana].
Catgut (n.) A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: catgut, gut].
Catharine wheel (n.) See Catherine wheel.
Catherine wheel (n.) (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
Catherine wheel (n.) (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. [Written also Catharine wheel.]
Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Cat-harpin (n.) See Cat-harping.
Cat-harping (n.) (Naut.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
Compare: Katharsis
Katharsis (n.) Purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis.
Syn: catharsis, abreaction.
Catharsis (n.) (Med.) 【醫】導瀉；【書】淨化作用 A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
Catharsis (n.) (Med.) (Psychotherapy) The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by re["e]stablishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction). Cathartic
Catharsis (n.) (Psychoanalysis) Purging of emotional tensions [syn: catharsis, katharsis, abreaction].
Catharsis (n.) Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels [syn: catharsis, katharsis, purgation].
Catharsis (n.) [ C or U ] (pl. Catharses) 情感宣洩，精神淨化（如透過寫作、戲劇等活動或經歷） The process of releasing strong emotions through a particular activity or experience, such as writing or theatre, in a way that helps you to understand those emotions.
Cathartic (a.) Alt. of Catharical.
Catharical (a.) (Med.) 導瀉的；有淨化作用的 Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
Catharical (a.) Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
Cathartic (n.) (Med.) 瀉藥；清腸劑 A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated, and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n.
Cathartic (a.) Emotionally purging [syn: {cathartic}, {psychotherapeutic}].
Cathartic (a.) Emotionally purging (of e.g. art) [syn: {cathartic}, {releasing}].
Cathartic (a.) Strongly laxative [syn: {cathartic}, {evacuant}, {purgative}].
Cathartic (n.) A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: {purgative}, {cathartic}, {physic}, {aperient}].
Cathartin (n.) (Chem.) The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
Cathay (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. -- Tennyson.
Cathay (n.) A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay]
Cathay, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 56
Housing Units (2000): 37
Land area (2000): 0.183090 sq. miles (0.474200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003658 sq. miles (0.009474 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.186748 sq. miles (0.483674 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12820
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.553931 N, 99.411403 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cathay, ND
Cathay
Cathead (n.) (Naut.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
Cathedra (n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.
Ex cathedra [L., from the chair], in the exercise of one's office; with authority.
The Vatican Council declares that the Pope, is infallible "when he speaks ex cathedra." -- Addis & Arnold's Cath. Dict.
Cathedra (n.) A throne that is the official chair of a bishop [syn: cathedra, bishop's throne].
Cathedral (n.) [C] 大教堂；主教座堂 The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
Cathedral (a.) 大教堂的，大教堂似的；設主教座的；權威性的 Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article! -- Jer. Taylor.
Cathedral (a.) Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks. -- Pope.
Cathedral (a.) Relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne; "a cathedral church".
Cathedral (n.) Any large and important church.
Cathedral (n.) The principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese [syn: cathedral, duomo].
Cathedral (n., a.) [see {bazaar} for derivation] The ?classical? mode of software engineering long thought to be necessarily implied by {Brooks's Law}. Features small teams, tight project control, and long release intervals. This term came into use after analysis of the Linux experience suggested there might be something wrong (or at least incomplete) in the classical assumptions.
Cathedral (n.) [ C ] (A2) （一個教區內的）總教堂，大教堂，主教座堂 A very large, usually stone, building for Christian worship. It is the largest and most important church of a diocese.
// Salisbury Cathedral.
Cathedralic (a.) Cathedral. [R.]
Cathedrated (a.) Relating to the chair or office of a teacher. [Obs.]
Catheretic (n.) (Med.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. -- Dunglison.
Catherine wheel (n.) (Geoth. Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
Catherine whell (n.) [C] 輪轉焰火 A round firework that is attached to a stick and that spins around.