catar — meaning in English

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

1. verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
2. verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
3. noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.

fish — full definition

1. noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
2. noun The flesh of such an animal, eaten as food.
3. verb To try to catch fish.
4. verb To search for or try to obtain something indirectly, often through hints or probing questions.

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