Kata Definition

kätä
noun
A system of basic body positioning and movement exercises, as in karate or judo.
American Heritage
(martial arts) A sequence of positions and movements used in the practice of many martial arts.
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Abbreviation of kata thermometer.
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(in combination) A drop (in temperature).
Kata thermometer; kata factor.
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Alternative form of gata.

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Cata-

Webster's New World
adverb

In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

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Other Word Forms of Kata

Noun

Singular:
kata
Plural:
katas

Origin of Kata

  • From Japanese 型 (“pattern, model”). In English use since the 1950s.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Ancient Greek κατά (kata, “downwards”). Compare cata-.

    From Wiktionary

  • Japanese style, traditional form

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Kata Sentence Examples

  • We discard the conception of the universal as a predicate applicable to a plurality, or even to all, of the members of a group. To know merely KaTa 7ravros is not to know, save accidentally.

  • Among game birds the bustard, guinea fowl, sand grouse (kata), blue rock, green pigeon, partridge, including a large chikor (akb) and a small species similar to the Punjab sisi; quail and several kinds of duck and snipe are met with.

  • Galen, who in his youth was carefully trained in the Stoic philosophy, was an unusually prolific writer on logic. Of the numerous commentaries and original treatises, a catalogue of which is given in his work De propriis libris, one only has come down to us, the treatise on Fallacies in dictione (IIepi TWV KaTa T1jv M Gi' oocio-µarouv).

  • A peculiar feature is presented by the level upland basins which furnish abundant pasturage during the summer months; the more remarkable are the Omalo in the White Mountains (about 4000 ft.) drained by subterranean outlets (KaTa(30Opa), Nida (Eis T7)v "IBav) in Psiloriti (between 5000 and 6000 ft.), and the Lassithi plain (about 3000 ft.), a more extensive area, on which are several villages.

  • At eighteen he wrote a series of papers, signed Kata Phusin, i.e.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAT

Words Ending With

ATAATA

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