Cat vs. Fish — What's the Difference?

The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from the wild members of the family.

Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.

A small domesticated carnivorous mammal (Felis catus), kept as a pet and as catcher of vermin, and existing in a variety of breeds.

A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water

Any of various other carnivorous mammals of the family Felidae, including the lion, tiger, leopard, and lynx.

A person who is strange in a specified way

(Informal) A woman who is regarded as spiteful.

A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.

A person, especially a man.

Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

A player or devotee of jazz music.

Search by groping or feeling for something concealed

A cat-o'-nine-tails.

Mend or strengthen with a fish.

A catfish.

Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.

A cathead.

Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including the bony fishes, such as catfishes and tunas, and the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays.

A device for raising an anchor to the cathead.

Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.

A catboat.

The flesh of such animals used as food.

A catamaran.

(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something

To hoist an anchor to (the cathead).

To catch or try to catch fish.

To look for sexual partners; have an affair or affairs

To look for something by feeling one's way; grope

An animal of the family Felidae:

To seek something in a sly or indirect way

A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.

To catch or try to catch (fish).

Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.

To catch or try to catch fish in

A person:

To catch or pull as if fishing

(offensive) A spiteful or angry woman.

(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

An enthusiast or player of jazz.

Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

(slang) A person (usually male).

(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.

(slang) A prostitute.

(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

(nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.

(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.

A woman.

(archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel now only in "catboat".

An easy victim for swindling.

The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").

A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

The trap of the game of "trap and ball".

A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

(archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.

(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.

A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.

A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.

(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

(historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)

(computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

(slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.

Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))

Abbreviation of catapult

(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

Abbreviation of catalytic converter

(prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.

Abbreviation of catamaran

A male homosexual; a gay man.

Abbreviation of category

A period of time spent fishing.

Abbreviation of catfish

An instance of seeking something.

Abbreviation of caterpillar

(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

(slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.

A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

Abbreviation of computed axial tomographyOften used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.

To use as bait when fishing.

To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

(slang) To vomit.

Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

To go wandering at night.

To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

To gossip in a catty manner.

To hoist the flukes of.

To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

A counter, used in various games.

To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

Any animal belonging to the natural family Felidae, and in particular to the various species of the genera Felis, Panthera, 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). The larger felines, such as the lion, tiger, leopard, and cougar, are often referred to as cats, and sometimes as big cats. See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

An old game;

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

Same as cat o' nine tails; as, British sailors feared the cat.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

A catamaran.

To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.

To search by raking or sweeping.

Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

An informal term for a youth or man;

Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;

A spiteful woman gossip;

The flesh of fish used as food;

The leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant;

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

A whip with nine knotted cords;

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

A large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

Seek indirectly;

Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild

Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;

A method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis

Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;