"black cat" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-black cat.ogg [Australia] Forms: black cats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} black cat (plural black cats)
  1. A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti).
    Sense id: en-black_cat-en-noun-LvUu5oOp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 6 41
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, cat.
    Sense id: en-black_cat-en-noun-ZWfRsNDT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (black-furred cat): القطة السوداء (Arabic), katu beltz (Basque), gat negre [masculine] (Catalan), 黑貓 (Chinese Mandarin), 黑猫 (hēimāo) (Chinese Mandarin), zwarte kat [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), nigra kato (Esperanto), musta kissa (Finnish), chat noir [masculine] (French), schwarze Katze [feminine] (German), μαύρη γάτα (mávri gáta) (Greek), काली बिल्ली (kālī billī) [feminine] (Hindi), काला बिल्ला (kālā billā) [masculine] (Hindi), kucing hitam (Indonesian), gatto nero [masculine] (Italian), 黒猫 (kuro neko) (alt: くろねこ) (Japanese), 검은 고양이 (geomeun goyang'i) (Korean), svart katt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), 黒猫 (kurumayā) (alt: くるまやー) (Okinawan), czarny kot [masculine] (Polish), czarnego kota [feminine] (Polish), gato preto [masculine] (Portuguese), чёрный кот (čórnyj kot) [masculine] (Russian), чёрная кошка (čórnaja koška) [feminine] (Russian), gato negro (Spanish), kara kedi (Turkish), чорний кіт (čornyj kit) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'black-furred cat': 45 55

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-black cat.ogg [Australia] Forms: black cats [present, singular, third-person], black catting [participle, present], black catted [participle, past], black catted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} black cat (third-person singular simple present black cats, present participle black catting, simple past and past participle black catted)
  1. (nautical slang) To do better than another in some respect. To one up. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-black_cat-en-verb-q9jnfbJf Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.