Dictionary entry
Wildcat
Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɪl(d)kat/
Pronunciation
/ˈwʌɪl(d)kat/
Myanmar Meaning
သွေးဆူသူ ၊ ဒေါသကြီးသူ။ စမ်းသပ်ရှာဖွေရသည့် ရေနံတွင်း။ ရုတ်တရက်ဖြစ်ပြီး တရားမဝင်သော။ စည်းမဲ့ကမ်းမဲ့ဖြစ်သော။ ငွေကျေးအရ မခိုင်မာသော။
Definition
wildcat /'waÇldkæt/ adj (သမဂၢ၏ ေထာက္ခံမႈမပါဘဲ) အလုပ္သမား မ်ား လတ္တေလာထေမွာက္ေသာ (သပိတ္)။
Examples
- ‘Over the years
- Owen Newman and I had filmed cheetahs
- lions
- leopards
- African wildcats and servals (for the first ever film of them) but never caracals.’
- ‘A big wildcat can kill roe deer fawns
- and sometimes even does.’
- ‘Since Dolly's creation in 1996 a variety of other animals have been duplicated
- including a caracal cat and an African wildcat.’
- ‘Dresser's team is fine-tuning the cloning of small cats like the African wildcat
- as well as the largest: tigers.’
- ‘Domestic cats are thought to have descended from the African subspecies of the wildcat.’
- ‘A highly adaptable wildcat of North America
- the Bobcat has managed to survive in healthy numbers in a variety of habitats
- consuming a diverse spectrum of prey
- in both wild and inhabited regions.’
- ‘Though more tolerant of people than many other wildcats
- bobcats tend to avoid large cultivated areas.’
- ‘I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat.’
- ‘I think she played the boss' daughter and Kevin liked her but she was a real wildcat.’
- ‘Peak exploration was in 1985 when 184 wildcats were drilled.’
- ‘The effect of the industrial action was compounded by a wildcat strike held by railway train guards the same morning.’
- ‘This has seen members strike for two days in both February and April
- and take part in a number of unofficial wildcat strikes.’
- ‘And when shop floor workers became dissatisfied
- they staged increasing numbers of ‘unofficial’ or wildcat strikes.’
- ‘The 12-month dispute saw extensive industrial action
- including wildcat strikes by teachers and walkouts by students.’
- ‘And at the time of writing we are seeing the first unofficial wildcat strikes in the civil service for 16 years!’
- ‘Those of you who might consider investing in a wildcat venture should also remember that the quality of geologic professional advice varies.’
- ‘Naturally no banker likes to see money drawn out of his institution and put into a wildcat investment where neither he nor anybody else thereabout will ever see it again.’
- ‘He was responsible for passage of the Wilderness Act
- which is all that stands between deforestation and wildcatting across millions of acres of pristine federal land.’
- ‘Although Krajick's book about a pair of wildcatting prospectors is set mostly in Canada's Northwest Territories during the 1990s
- the hostility and paranoia on display are the same as at the Namibian mine.’
- ‘He had invested in a wildcatting deal and lost money
- but it was ‘no fault of George
- ’ he said
- adding that ‘the good Lord just didn't put any oil there.’’