English Dictionary

tiger

/ˈtaɪɡɚ/

noun

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. / A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.

The tiger is the largest cat species.

意味（1）

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

意味（2）

A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.

意味（3）

(heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.

The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.

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(South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.

Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.

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A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.

In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.

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(obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon

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(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.

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(figuratively) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.

As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,

No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,

No mournful bell shall ring her burial;

As for that heinous tiger, Tamora, No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, No mournful bell shall ring her burial; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.

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(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

three cheers and a tiger

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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

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A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.

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A tiger beetle.

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Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.

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A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina