tiger

ti·ger

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A beautiful tiger.

noun

The definition of a tiger is a large, fierce cat from Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes, or a fierce person.

An example of a tiger is a Bengal.
An example of a tiger is a person who always goes after what she wants no matter what.

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tiger

noun

pl. -·gers or -·ger

a large, fierce Asian cat (Panthera tigris), having a tawny coat striped with black
any of several similar animals; esp.,
1. the South American jaguar
2. the African leopard
3. the Tasmanian wolf
1. a very energetic or persevering person
2. a fierce, belligerent person

Origin of tiger

Middle English tygre from Old English tiger and Old French tigre, both from Classical Latin tigris from Classical Greek from Iranian tigra-, sharp from Indo-European base an unverified form (s)teig- from source stick

tiger Idioms

have a tiger by the tail

to find oneself in a situation that has become unexpectedly difficult to manage or resolve

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tiger

noun

a. A large carnivorous feline mammal (Panthera tigris) of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes.
b. Any of various similar wild felines, such as the jaguar, mountain lion, or lynx.
A person regarded as aggressive, audacious, or fierce.

Origin of tiger

Middle English tigre from Old English tigras tigers and from Old French tigre both from Latin tigris from Greek of Iranian origin ; see steig- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

ti′ger·ish
adjective

tiger

Panthera tigris

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Noun

(plural tigers)

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
1. A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
(South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
(figuratively) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
three cheers and a tiger
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

Tigre

Origin

From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek Ï„Î¯Î³ÏÎ¹Ï‚ (tÃgris), from Iranian (compare Avestan [script?] (tigri, “arrow"), [script?] (tiÎ³ra, “pointed")). More at stick.

Proper noun

A town in Georgia
An unincorporated community in Washington

Noun

(plural Tigers)

(soccer) someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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tiger - Computer Definition

(1) Version 10.4 of the Mac OS X operating system. Introduced in 2005, Tiger includes the Spotlight desktop search and RSS syndication support for the Safari Web browser. It also introduced Dashboard, a launching pad for mini applications known as "widgets" for functions such as weather, dictionary and address book. Dashboard became so popular, it spawned more than a thousand widget apps. See Mac OS X and Mac Dashboard.

(2) An earlier code name for Multimedia Server from Microsoft, which provided multimedia video-on-demand for Windows NT.

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