Meaning of pet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
2. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
3. Abbreviation of petition.
   abbreviation, alt-of
4. A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
   Geordie, Ireland
5. Initialism of polyethylene terephthalate.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
6. Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
   Canadian, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use
8. Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
   broadly
9. Acronym of positron emission tomography.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
10. Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
11. One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
12. Acronym of paired-end tag.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
13. One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment
14. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
15. Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, historical
16. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling
17. Initialism of perineal ectopic testis (a rare congenital anomaly of the testis).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
18. To stroke or fondle (an animal)

Equivalents

Examples

“Papyrus: This is my brother's pet rock. He always forgets to feed it. As usual, I have to take responsibility.”

“At first she sat silent; but that could not last: she had resolved to make a pet of her little cousin, as she would have him to be; and she commenced stroking his curls, and kissing his cheek, and offering him tea in her saucer, like a baby.”

“the love of cronies, pets, and favourites”

“His genius at this time was of a decidedly gloomy cast. He brought his mother a tragedy, in which, though he killed sixteen people before the second act, it made her laugh so, that he thrust the masterpiece into the fire in a pet.”

“There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet, with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.”

“Buck Mulligan sat down in a sudden pet.”

“An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].”

“He [Rob Beanlands] is a founding director of the National Cardiac PET Centre, the first facility in Canada dedicated to the use of PET (positron-emission tomography) as a non-invasive cardiac diagnostic tool. PET technology can help determine whether areas of the heart muscle are receiving enough blood, if there is heart damage or scar tissue in the heart, or if there is a buildup of abnormal substances in the heart muscle.”

“Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.”

“But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968.”

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