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Adjective p e t has 1 sense
- favored, favorite, favourite, pet, preferred - preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
Antonym: unloved (indirect, via loved)
Noun p e t has 4 senses
- pet - a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
--1 is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
- darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky - a special loved one
--2 is a kind of lover
--2 has particulars: chosen; macushla; mollycoddle; teacher's pet
- pet - a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
--3 is a kind of irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler
- positron emission tomography, PET - using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
--4 is a kind of imaging, tomography
Verb p e t has 2 senses
- pet - stroke or caress gently; "pet the lamb"
--1 is one way to caress
Sample sentence:
- pet - stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking
--2 is one way to caress
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
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