tiger
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gər noun, plural ti·gers, (especially collectively for 1, 2, 5) ti·ger.
1.
a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several races from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some races thought to be extinct.
2.
the cougar, jaguar, thylacine, or other animal resembling the tiger.
3.
a person resembling a tiger in fierceness, courage, etc.
4.
an additional cheer (often the word tiger ) at the end of a round of cheering.
5.
any of several strong, voracious fishes, as a sand shark.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English tigre, Old English tīgras (plural) < Latin tīgris, tigris < Greek tígris
before 1000; Middle English tigre, Old English tīgras (plural) < Latin tīgris, tigris < Greek tígris
Related forms
ti·ger·like, adjective
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Tiger
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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tiger (ˈtaɪɡə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a large feline mammal, Panthera tigris, of forests in most of Asia, having a tawny yellow coat with black stripes |
| 2. | (not in technical use) any of various other animals, such as the jaguar, leopard, and thylacine |
| 3. | a dynamic, forceful, or cruel person |
| 4. | a. a country, esp in E Asia, that is achieving rapid economic growth |
| b. (as modifier): a tiger economy | |
| 5. | archaic a servant in livery, esp a page or groom |
| 6. | short for tiger moth |
| 7. | slang (South African) a ten-rand note |
| 8. | informal have a tiger by the tail to find oneself in a situation that has turned out to be much more difficult to control than one had expected |
| [C13: from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris, from Greek, of Iranian origin] | |
| 'tigerish | |
| —adj | |
| 'tigrish | |
| —adj | |
| 'tigerishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'tigerishness | |
| —n | |
| 'tiger-like | |
| —adj | |
| Tiger (ˈtaɪɡə) | |
| —n | |
| See TIGR | |
| Woods1 | |
| —n | |
| Lake of the Woods See Lake of the Woods | |
| Woods2 (wʊdz) | |
| —n | |
| Tiger, real name Eldrick Woods. born 1975, US golfer: youngest US Masters champion and first Black golfer to win a major championship; winner of the US Masters (1997, 2001--02, 2005), US Open (2000, 2002), British Open Championship (2000, 2005--06), and the PGA Championship (1999, 2000, 2006-07); in 2001 he became the only player to hold all four major titles at once | |
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Word Origin & History
tiger
O.E. tigras (pl.), also in part from O.Fr. tigre (c.1150), both from L. tigris "tiger," from Gk. tigris, possibly from an Iranian source. The meaning "shriek or howl at the end of a cheer" is recorded from 1845, Amer.Eng. Tigress first recorded 1611. Tiger's-eye "yellowish-brown quartz" is recorded from
1891.
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Science Dictionary
wood (w d) Pronunciation Key
The thick xylem of trees and shrubs, resulting from secondary growth by the vascular cambium, which produces new layers of living xylem. The accumulated living xylem is the sapwood. The older, dead xylem in the interior of the tree forms the heartwood. Often each cycle of growth of new wood is evident as a growth ring. The main components of wood are cellulose and lignin. woody adjective |
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Slang Dictionary
tiger definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing |
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Example sentences
Wandering round a supermarket-warm, gorgeously lit-corridors of open fridges full of tiger prawns and fillet steak.
She created an exotic persona, held court with cheetahs and tiger cubs and installed a coffin in her bedroom.
Catching a tiger by the tail may be ill-advised, but catching one on film is a prized achievement.
So the name, with the tiger's-eye logo, is really all we're losing.
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