Englishfor English speakers
wild
Adjective
—
If an animal or plant is wild it is not tame. This means it lives in nature and people have not changed it.
Wolves and bears are wild animals.
We found some wild berries and ate them.
—
If a person (or thing) is wild they (or it) are not easy to predict, or they do not act civilized.
She is so wild, all she does is drink and party!
That was a wild party.
They were playing wild music all night.
—
If something is wild it is very good or very interesting.
That is a wild shirt you have on!
—
If a card is wild it can be used as any other card in a game.
wild
Interjection
—
You can say wild to mean you like something.
wild
Noun
—
The wild (or wilds) is nature or places far from where people live.
We were lost in the wild for a week.
Many animals live in the wilds of Africa.
cat
Noun
—
A cat is a domestic animal often kept as a pet; it has whiskers and likes to chase mice.
Our pet cat has just had kittens.
—
Cats refers to the family of many different wild animals that are related to the domestic cat.
s and tigers are big cats.
—
A cat is a short-form for a catfish.
—
A cat refers to a person who is a prostitute.
—
A cat refers to a catamaran.
—
The cat command, a computer program used to read one or more files and output its contents.
—
Cat is a short-form for a catapult.
cat
Verb
—
If you cat an anchor, you lift it onto the cathead.
—
If you cat, you vomit out something.
cat
Adjective
—
When something is cat, it is terrible and not good.
The weather these few days has been cat, so we decided to cancel our outing to the beach.
currency
Noun
—
A currency is the money from a particular country.
A person going abroad can obtain foreign currency notes and travellers' cheques from his own bank.
The US dollar ended lower against most other currencies in London.
Since then the exchange value of the currency has fallen by 78%.
—
If something has currency, it is generally accepted.
After the war, these new ideas began to gain currency.
—
The state of being up to date.
A book's bibliography can be a good indicator of currency in the text.