Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The four species include the leopard snake ( locally known as Ochendra ), the Balkan whip snake ( locally called Dendrogallia ), the dice snake ( called Nerofido in Greek ), and the only venomous snake is the nocturnal cat snake which has evolved to deliver its venom in to geckos and small lizards and is not dangerous to humans.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

" Dora " is from " dora neko " ( brazen or stray cat, どら猫 ), and is a corruption of nora ( stray ).

Extant felids belong to one of two subfamilies: Pantherinae ( which includes the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard ), and Felinae ( which includes the cougar, the cheetah, the lynxes, the ocelot, and the domestic cat ).

If a dog does have a benign functional carcinoma ( appears in 10 % of the cases ), treatment and prognosis are no different from those of the cat.

Throughout the 90s his papers claimed that by 2001 the ATR " Robokoneko " ( translation: kitten robot ) project would develop a billion-neuron " cellular automata machine brain " ( CAM-brain ), with " computational power equivalent to 10, 000 pentiums " that could simulate the brain of a real cat.

Apart from a known and possibly breeding population in Arizona ( southeast of Tucson ), the cat has largely been extirpated from the United States since the early 20th century.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

Of his many literary adaptations, works including Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki's The Key ( Kagi ), Natsume Sōseki's The Heart ( Kokoro ) and I Am a Cat ( Wagahai wa neko de aru ), in which a teacher's cat critiques the foibles of the humans surrounding him, and Yukio Mishima's Conflagration ( Enjo ), in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, were brought to the screen.

Also, like Minerva ( who had the ability to transform into an owl ), the character of McGonagall had the ability to transfigure into a cat.

For animal sounds, words like quack ( duck ), moo ( cow ), bark or woof ( dog ), roar ( lion ), miaow or purr ( cat ) and baa ( sheep ) are typically used in English.

* Oscar ( therapy cat ), cat who can purportedly predict the deaths of hospice patients

* Internet freedom organisation Internet Defense League used cat signal, parodying both the Bat-Signal and the lolcat meme.

Toulouse was an unneutered cat with outdoor access and after some time a population of stray short-legged cats started to form.

The word " meerkat " is Dutch for " lake cat ", but the suricata is not in the cat family, and neither suricatas nor guenons are attracted to lakes ; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit markaţa मर ् कट = " monkey ", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor on board a Dutch East India Company ship.

Nuku Nuku started out as just a stray cat Ryunosuke stumbled upon taking a leak while on the run with his father Kyusaku after retrieving ( stealing ) a prototype android of Kyusaku's own design to keep it from being sold off to the military by Ryu's mother Akiko.

The son of Lino Bonpensiero, Salvatore Bonpensiero started out as a cat burglar, and was affectionately known as " Big Pussy " because of this early career (" Pussy " in reference to a " pussy cat " since he was a cat burglar ).

According to Andy Thomas, Airington had a few drinks before the recording session for the song started, and as a result, accidentally repeated some of the lyrics ( i. e., " this cat gets down down with a love hang over ").

In the episode " Grease ", it is revealed that her parents divorced and she currently lives alone with her cat ; she was highly close to her grandmother Rose, who died a year before the show started, and both her interest in the paranormal & Gothic styling are implied to be related to her grandmother's death.

Brewer eventually kept one of the kittens, named " Pixie ", and after a year started a breeding program with Pixie as the foundation cat.

This breed started in 1987 with the discovery of a hairless cat in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don by cat breeder Elena Kovaleva.

After the article published against Nora's wishes a new a copy cat killer has started to kill people of the same way as the bodies discovered under the cabinet.

Hemingway started with a gray Angora cat obtained in Key West from a breeder, named Princessa ( middle cat in photo ) and later in 1942 picked up two male Cuban kittens named Good Will and Boise ( left and right cats in photo ).

In 2005, American Greetings started plans for an official relaunch of the franchise, which was going to feature 5 new characters: Mogo ( a moose ), Reagan ( a dog ), Hatch ( a cat ), Mayfield ( a lamb ) and Domino ( a beaver ), accompanied by an elderly Portia Porcupine, now named Mrs. Bristlemore.

"' Tracks of My Tears ' was actually started by Marv Tarplin, who is a young cat who plays guitar for our act.

She first started writing and illustrating stories for her two daughters, the youngest of which, together with a Siamese cat named Dingbat, became the inspiration for Dorrie and her cat Gink.

Is George put the cat out, dominant stress will ordinarily be on the first complement, the cat, not the second complement out.

Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.

The story hit the national press at about the same time of the official denial of alien big cat evidence on Bodmin Moor.

The Norwegian all-girl pop band Katzenjammer uses two contrabass balalaikas, both of which have cat faces painted on the front.

The hunting instinct is triggered by movement and much depends on how the cat behaves.

For example, if the main shot is of a man walking down an alley, possible cutaways may include a shot of a cat on a nearby dumpster or a shot of a person watching from a window overhead.

A cat is put in a sealed box, with its life or death made dependent on the state of a subatomic particle.

" But this can't be accurate because it implies the cat is actually both dead and alive until the box is opened to check on it.

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.

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* location, of the form " noun copula place-phrase " cat is on the mat ; cat is here

Genetic research has provided a basis for a more concise classification for the living members of the cat family based on genotypical groupings.

Soon after, during a match a black cat ventured on to the ground.

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

Similar sorties followed on 10 and 11 January, but the results of these " cat and mouse " operations were always the same: " the Greek destroyers always managed to remain outside the Ottoman warships ' range, and each time the cruisers fired a few rounds before breaking off the chase.

The AQIS announced on June 6, 2009 that the alternative of radiation processing for cat food is no longer acceptable and that irradiated dog food is required to be labeled " Must not be fed to cats ".

Legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity led to federal listing of the cat on the endangered species list in 1997.

Pallas cat, the famous wild cat of Kyrgyzstan, celebrated on a postage stamp

It refers to late medieval navigation jargon, when captains of the Hanseatic trading fleets would compare the Danish Straits to a hole so narrow that even a cat would have difficulty squeezing its way through on account of the many reefs and shallow waters.

During one of his few drum solo performances on television, Moon filled clear acrylic drums with water and goldfish, and dressed as a cat.