rat
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- noun
- /ræt/
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- Young soldiers and scientists studied like suffering lab rats.
- pet rat
- rats and mice
- male rat
So not ideal, maybe because the rats had been measured at birth.
- So not ideal, maybe because the rats had been measured at birth.
- You know, we have a rat and that rat needs sustenance.
- Like can you Taser a rat if it's dead?
- Then they these both groups of rats were challenged.
Examples
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Allowing for attrition, eight rats were used in each group, yielding a total of 16 animals.
Academic text (2015) -
To address these questions, we used the rat cremaster muscle flap.
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Comes down to this one rat who has to eat the bait.
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25% of the human genome is shared with rats.
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It looks much more like a small rat, complete with a tail.
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But he saw the size of the rats and he was disgusted.
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Look at all these rats just infiltrating the bottom.
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Locomotor disorders developed in one rat, and it died four days after the purchase.
Academic text (2013) -
Sean, this rat's reached the end of the maze.
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The rat scurried across the alley looking for food among the trash.
Synonyms
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A small rat that lives in roofs or attics
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A large brown rat that lives near people and often causes trouble
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A small hopping animal that lives in deserts, often in North America and Mexico, and eats seeds
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A common rat that lives near people and damages food and buildings
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A brown rat that lives in sewers and other dirty city places
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A small dark animal like a large mouse that lives near people and often carries disease
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A small wild animal like a rat that lives in forests, builds nests, and often collects things
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A small North American animal like a rat with a bushy tail that collects objects
A small animal with a long tail that lives near houses and eats food
A common brown rat that lives near people, often found in cities and sometimes kept as a pet
A small black rat with a long tail that lives near houses and is often a pest
A small rodent like a mouse from North America with a bushy tail that collects things for its nest
A small animal like a rat that lives in or near water
A wild rat that lives underground and damages crops
A large burrowing rat with a scaly tail found in India and Sri Lanka
A large rat that lives in pine forests and sometimes damages crops
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
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An insulting word for a person from a poor neighborhood who behaves in a rough or criminal way
- US
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A small hopping animal that lives in deserts, often in North America and Mexico, and eats seeds
- US
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A small desert animal like a mouse that hops on long hind legs and has a long tail
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A small dark animal like a large mouse that lives near people and often carries disease
- South African
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A small burrowing mammal from western Africa that lives in underground colonies
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A small almost hairless African animal that lives underground in large groups like ants
- Offensive
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An insulting name for a person thought to be very bad and not to be trusted
- US
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A small wild animal like a rat that lives in forests, builds nests, and often collects things
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in water and looks like a beaver
A large shiny black snake from North America that is not venomous and eats rats and mice
- Baby Talk
A circle game where players join hands and raise them to let a child pass while another catches them
A small animal like a rat with soft thick fur and big ears that lives in the Andes
- Specialized
A small animal like a mouse with soft fur and pouches in its cheeks
- Specialized
A small animal like a mouse that lives in Florida marshes and swims
- Australian
A small animal like a mouse that eats insects and carries its young in a pouch
- Indian
A large snake from South and Southeast Asia that is not poisonous and often enters buildings to catch mice
- Australian
A small Australian animal with a pouch that looks like a rat but is related to kangaroos
- Specialized
A larger female in a colony of naked mole rats who is the only one to have babies
- Australian
A small Australian animal with a pouch that looks like a rabbit-sized rat
- Specialized
A serious disease that causes fever and a rash when fleas spread bacteria to people
- Specialized
A thin metal tool with a round taper used to smooth small round holes and curves
A large harmless reddish snake from the southern United States that lives on farms and in woods
- US
A small wild animal like a mouse that lives in marsh grass and eats plants and insects
- Specialized
A small mouse-like animal with large back legs that hops and lives in burrows in the western United States
- US
A small mammal from southern South America that looks like a shrew and carries its young in a pouch
- Offensive
A harmful false idea that people who get government help are lazy or dishonest
- Offensive
An insulting name for a flying animal like a pigeon that people see as dirty or annoying
- Specialized
A small rodent like a mouse from North America with a bushy tail that collects things for its nest
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Etymology
Rat comes from old Germanic words for the animal and you can still see the same name in modern German Ratte and Dutch 'rat'. So the word rat today simply names the large mouse-like rodent often found near houses and shops.