What is "tiger"

Tiger \Ti"ger\, n. [OE. tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr. ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. t[=i]r; perhaps akin to E. stick, v. t.; -- probably so named from its quickness.]

1. 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.

2. Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

   As for heinous tiger, Tamora.
   --Shak.

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

4. A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U. S.]

5. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar. American tiger. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. The puma.

   2. The jaguar.

      Clouded tiger (Zo["o]l.), a handsome striped and spotted carnivore ( Felis macrocelis or Felis marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also tortoise-shell tiger.

      Mexican tiger (Zo["o]l.), the jaguar.

      Tiger beetle (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelid[ae]. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly.

      Tiger bittern. (Zo["o]l.) See Sun bittern, under Sun.

      Tiger cat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the tiger.

      Tiger flower (Bot.), an iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as Tigridia conchiflora, Tigridia grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger.

      Tiger grass (Bot.), a low East Indian fan palm ( Cham[ae]rops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by the natives.
      --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

      Tiger lily. (Bot.) See under Lily.

      Tiger moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of moths of the family Arctiad[ae] which are striped or barred with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The larv[ae] are called woolly bears.

      Tiger shark (Zo["o]l.), a voracious shark ( Galeocerdo tigrinus syn. Galeocerdo maculatus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark.

      Tiger shell (Zo["o]l.), a large and conspicuously spotted cowrie ( Cypr[ae]a tigris); -- so called from its fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie.

      Tiger snake (Zo["o]l.), either of two very venomous snakes of Tasmania and Australia, Notechis scutatis and Notechis ater, which grow up to 5 feet in length.

      Tiger wolf (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena ( Hy[ae]na crocuta).

      Tiger wood, the variegated heartwood of a tree ( Mach[ae]rium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

Old English tigras (plural), also in part from Old French tigre "tiger" (mid-12c.), both from Latin tigris "tiger," from Greek tigris, possibly from an Iranian source akin to Old Persian tigra- "sharp, pointed," Avestan tighri- "arrow," in reference to its springing on its prey, "but no application of either word, or any derivative, to the tiger is known in Zend." [OED]. Of tiger-like persons from c.1500. The meaning "shriek or howl at the end of a cheer" is recorded from 1845, American English, and is variously explained. Tiger's-eye "yellowish-brown quartz" is recorded from 1886.

n. 1 ''Panthera tigris'', a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. 2 # A male tiger. 3 A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. 4 (context South Africa dated but still used English) A leopard. 5 (context US slang English) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse. 6 (context figurative English) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person. 7 (context US colloquial English) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering. 8 A pneumatic box or pan used in refine sugar.

1. n. a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"

2. large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered [syn: Panthera tigris]

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognisable for their pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The largest wild tiger ever reported had a total body length of over curves and weighed . The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.

Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia. Over the past 100 years, they have lost 93% of their historic range, and have been extirpated from southwest and central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia. Today, they range from the Siberian taiga to open grasslands and tropical mangrove swamps. The remaining six tiger subspecies have been classified as endangered by IUCN. The global population in the wild is estimated to number between 3,062 and 3,948 individuals, down from around 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, with most remaining populations occurring in small pockets isolated from each other, of which about 2,000 exist on the Indian subcontinent. A 2016 global census estimated the population of wild tigers at approximately 3,890 individuals. Major reasons for population decline include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching. The extent of area occupied by tigers is estimated at less than , a 41% decline from the area estimated in the mid-1990s. In 2016, wildlife conservation group at WWF declared that world's count of wild tigers has risen for the first time in a century.

Tigers are among the most recognisable and popular of the world's charismatic megafauna. They have featured prominently in ancient mythology and folklore, and continue to be depicted in modern films and literature. They appear on many flags, coats of arms, and as mascots for sporting teams. The tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and South Korea.

The Tiger (寅) is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Tiger is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 寅.

In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of a Tiger hash value is 192 bits. Truncated versions (known as Tiger/128 and Tiger/160) can be used for compatibility with protocols assuming a particular hash size. Unlike the SHA-2 family, no distinguishing initialization values are defined; they are simply prefixes of the full Tiger/192 hash value.

Tiger2 is a variant where the message is padded by first appending a byte with the hexadecimal value of 0x80 as in MD4, MD5 and SHA, rather than with the hexadecimal value of 0x01 as in the case of Tiger. The two variants are otherwise identical.

A tiger is a big cat of the genus Panthera.

Tiger may also refer to:

Tiger was an American comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Blake. It ran from May 3, 1965 until the spring of 2003.

Tiger, also known as Avatar, is a fictional comic book character created by Charlton Comics and now published by DC Comics. Tiger first appeared in Judomaster #91 (October 1966), and was created by Joe Gill and Frank McLaughlin.

Tiger is a Telugu film directed by N.Ramesh and produced by P.Gangadhara Rao. It was the first time N. T. Rama Rao and Rajinikanth starred together. It was also Rajinikanth's 50th film in his career.

Tiger ( Russian ТИГР, short for Товарищество Инициативных Граждан России, Fellowship of Proactive Citizens of Russia) is a Russian-based opposition pressure group formed in 2008 in order to resist government implementation of higher car import taxes.

The surname Tiger may refer to:

• Dana Tiger, Muscogee-Seminole-Cherokee artist
• Dick Tiger (1929–1971), Nigerian boxer
• Jerome Tiger (1941–1967), Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist
• Johnny Tiger, Jr. (born 1940), Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist
• Lionel Tiger (born 1937), anthropologist
• Davin Tabert (born 2004), School Student

Tiger was a British comic magazine published from 1954 to 1985. The comic was launched under the editorship of Derek Birnage on 11 September 1954, under the name Tiger – The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly, and featured predominantly sporting strips. Its most popular strip was Roy of the Rovers, a football-based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. This strip proved so successful it was spun out of Tiger and into its own comic. The next Editor was Barrie Tomlinson. Barrie became Group Editor in 1976, with Paul Gettens as Editor. Following successive mergers with other Fleetway publications in the 1960s the comic was known as Tiger and Hurricane, then Tiger and Jag, then it was coupled with the football magazine Scorcher in 1974, resulting in Tiger and Scorcher appearing for more than 6 years. Later there was a further, less successful, merger with another comic called Speed, in 1980. The end finally came on 30 March 1985, with some strips moving to The Eagle. In all, 1,555 issues were published, as well as a number of hard-cover annuals. Editorial Assistants have included Tony Peagam, Paul Gettens, Terence Magee Art Editors included Mike Swanson, Trish Gordon-Pugh Art Assistant: Maurice Dolphin Letterers: Stanley Richardson, Paul Bensberg, Peter Knight, John Aldrich

Tiger were an English indie rock band from Princes Risborough and London who were formed in 1996.

Tiger quickly got British press attention after their debut single "Shining in the Wood" was played on BBC Radio 1. The musical climate of the time was dominated by Britpop and retro bands influenced by Oasis. Tiger, who were characterised by fuzzy guitars and multiple keyboards, were quickly held up as part of a new alternative.

The band had two keyboardists using Moog synthesizers and used droning song structures similar to Stereolab and Neu!, but with a stronger pop element. The band were often criticised for their (lack of) fashion sense: they wore outdated clothes and at least two members of the band had mullet haircuts, which, although they have become fashionable since, were totally out of place at the time.

The band recorded and released their 1996 debut album We are Puppets less than a year after they first formed. It was often described as patchy and samey, but one which nonetheless had some strong pop songs. The album's singles, "Race", "My Puppet Pal", and "On The Rose" were minor successes although only "Race" reached the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

NME invited them to perform on their annual Brat Bus Tour in 1997 and their performances were generally held to be a success.

In late 1998 they supported Pulp, but any impetus had been lost by this point and they were dropped from their record label shortly after. Their Stephen Street-produced second album Rosaria eventually appeared on the Tugboat label in 1999, but shortly afterwards they split up.

Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1989. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar's top, just behind the tailpiece. The body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "Hippie sandwich" by employees of Alembic Inc., where Irwin worked for a brief period in the early 1970s. The combination of several heavy varieties of wood, plus solid brass binding and hardware results in an unusually heavy instrument that tips the scales at 13½ pounds. After Garcia began using a new Irwin guitar (known as "Rosebud") in December 1989, Tiger became his backup guitar. Due to a problem with Rosebud during the Grateful Dead concert on July 9, 1995, Tiger was the last guitar Garcia played publicly.

Tiger, in comics, may refer to:

• Tiger (DC Comics), a DC Comics character, the partner of Judomaster
• Tiger (Fleetway), a British comic
• Tiger (comic strip), an American comic strip
• Tiger (Image Comics), an Image Comics character who has appeared in Savage Dragon
• Tiger (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm character who has appeared in Gen¹³

It may also refer to:

• Bronze Tiger, a DC Comics martial artist
• Flying Tiger (comics), a number of comics characters
• Smiling Tiger, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Tiger-Man, an Atlas/Seaboard Comics character
• Tiger Shark (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• White Tiger (comics), a number of Marvel Comics characters

Tiger is a 2007 Bengali film directed by Swapan Saha. The film featured Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy. It is the remake of Tamil film Ramanaa stars Vijakanth in lead role.

Tiger is a security software for Unix-like computer operating systems. It can be used both as a security audit and intrusion detection system and supports multiple UNIX platforms. Tiger is free under the GPL license and unlike other tools, it needs only of POSIX tools, and is written entirely in shell language.

It has not been maintained since the 3.2.3 release in September 2007.

Norman Washington Jackson (born 1960), better known as Tiger, is a Jamaican dancehall musician active since the late 1970s. He is known for his growling style of deejaying, often imitated by other dancehall deejays since his initial rise to fame.

Tiger is a studio album by New Zealand band, Superette, released in 1996.

Tiger (born February 12, 1987) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, working for the Mexico City based professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He was previously known by the ring name Tiger Kid (sometimes spelled Tiger Kidd), but the name was shortened in June 2011. He frequently teams with his brother, luchador Puma. Tiger's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. He is part of the Casas wrestling family, son of El Felino using a ring character and a mask very similar to his father and has been trained by his uncle, professional wrestler Negro Casas.

Tiger, a children’s record, was Frank Buck’s last recorded performance. The story was adapted by "Peter Steele" and Hecky Krasnow. In fact, Krasnow often wrote under two names, Peter Steele and Hecky Krasno, dropping the "w." In Tiger Krasnow combined two animals from two stories in Bring 'Em Back Alive:

• The first is the tiger from the story “Man Eater,” which has been changed to a cow killer;
• The second is the leopard from “Loose on Board,” which has been changed into a tiger.

Merrill Joels, a radio actor, is the narrator, Captain Harry Curtis. Vocals are by the Southernaires, orchestra conducted by Spencer Odom. Buck was mortally ill with lung cancer as he read his lines, and was dead when Columbia Records issued the album, April 17, 1950. Yet he sounds remarkably fit, and the recording itself has the charm of an old-time radio show, complete with music, sound effects, and an actor growling like a tiger. Columbia released the recording as a part of its children's series of 10” records (JL 8001 to JL 8013, 1949–1950). The second part of the album consists of Gene Autry narrating Champion: The Horse No Man Could Ride.

"Tiger" is an ABBA song featured on their 1976 album Arrival.

"Tiger" is a 1959 song by Fabian Forte. It was his most successful single, reaching number 3 on the US charts.

Tiger, as a nickname, may refer to:

Athletes:

• Tiger Woods (born 1975), American golfer
• Brent Crosswell (born 1950), Australian rules footballer
• Tiger Flowers (1895–1927), African-American middleweight boxing champion
• Tiger Jack Fox (1907–1954), American light heavyweight boxer
• Tiger Lance (1940–2010), South African cricketer
• Tiger Mangweni (born 1980), South African rugby union player
• Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), Polish-German boxer
• Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) (1905–1992), Australian cricketer
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941–2011), Indian cricketer
• Ian Ridley (1934-2008), Australian rules footballer
• Jock Shaw (1912–2000), Scottish footballer
• Tiger Smalls (born 1969), former featherweight boxing champion
• Tiger Smith (1886–1979), English cricketer
• Tiger Stevenson (1907–?), English motorcycle speedway racer
• Tiger Williams (born 1954), Canadian former National Hockey League player

Other:

• William "Tiger" Dunlop (1792–1848), army and militia officer, surgeon, Canada Company official, author and politician
• Tiger Haynes (1914–1994), American actor and musical performer
• Tiger Memon (born 1960), Indian gangster
• Tiger Varadachariar (1876–1950), Indian musician

Tiger is a Tollywood movie that has Sundeep Kishan in the lead role. The movie is directed by Vi Anand. Tiger features a Kashi backdrop. The film received positive reviews from critics.

"Tiger" is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish DJ and music producer Steve Angello for his debut studio album, " Wild Youth". The song was released as the fourth single from the album on 20 November 2015.