TIGER

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.”

2. isim A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.

   “Coordinate term: tigress”

3. isim A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in the subfamily †Machairodontinae).
4. isim A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus

   “What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger.”

5. isim A jaguar.

   “Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite.”

6. isim A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
7. isim A tiger beetle.
8. isim Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
9. isim A tiger butterfly in the tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
10. isim 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.”

11. isim 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.”

12. isim 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.”

13. isim 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”

14. isim 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.”

15. isim 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; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.”

16. isim A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
17. isim A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.

    “. . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.”

18. özel isim The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
19. özel isim A town in Georgia.
20. özel isim An unincorporated community in Washington.
21. özel isim A popular given name for a pet.
22. isim Someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
23. özel isim Acronym of Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing.