catar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
- fish noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
- glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
- Qatar noun A small, wealthy country on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf, officially the State of Qatar, with Doha as its capital.
- scavenge verb To search through discarded material for something useful.
Senses
catar is used for these senses in English:
- Qatar A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Qatar. Capital: Doha.
- cull To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- fish (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- scavenge (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
cull — full definition
- verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
- verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
- noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.
fish — full definition
- noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
- noun The flesh of such an animal, eaten as food.
- verb To try to catch fish.
- verb To search for or try to obtain something indirectly, often through hints or probing questions.