Definition of Tiger

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Definition of Tiger

Tiger

A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

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Tiger Quotations

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
Lance Armstrong

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung

Tiger Translations

tiger in Afrikaans is tier, Indiese tier
tiger in Danish is tiger
tiger in Dutch is tijger
tiger in French is tigre, tigresse
tiger in German is Tigerin, Tiger
tiger in Hungarian is tigris
tiger in Italian is tigre
tiger in Norwegian is tiger
tiger in Portuguese is tigre
tiger in Spanish is tigre

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