catting
Acting like felines
Catting is the present participle of cat, used in several specialized contexts.
In nautical terminology, catting refers to raising an anchor to the cathead, a beam projecting from a ship's bow.
The word also appears in the phrase catting around, meaning to pursue casual sexual encounters or to prowl about looking for romantic partners—behavior associated with tomcats on the prowl.
At the endpoint
- shellHard outer covering
- bashForceful striking blow
- concatenateJoin sequentially
- stdinDefault program input channel
stdout · pipes · redirection · grep · tail · head · less · more
Secures ships to seabed
- hoistingRaising with effort
- windlassCranked cylinder for lifting
- deckShip's flat surface
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
ship · rigging · tackle · capstan · davit · hawse · seamanship
terminal
At the endpoint
- shellHard outer covering
- bashForceful striking blow
- concatenateJoin sequentially
stdin · stdout · pipes · redirection · grep · tail · head · less · more · filesystem
anchor
Secures ships to seabed
mooring · ship · rigging · tackle · capstan · davit · hawse · seamanship
debugging
Error removal from programs
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
- tailRear animal appendage
- logfilesRecorded system activity
streaming · output · tracing · verbose · errors · timestamps · console · realtime
joining
Linking into one
splicing · linking · chaining · stringing · sequencing · uniting · fusing · files · streams · output
cattingsettling down
Becoming stable and rooted
committing · staying home · nesting · monogamy · domesticating
- catting aroundPromiscuous romantic pursuits