Tiger (disambiguation) - Definition

Tiger is:

• A mammal. See Tiger
• Economic Tigers - the name of a country with rapid economic growth, used for South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan (East Asian Tigers) and also for Ireland (the Celtic Tiger)

Culture

• One of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits. See Tiger (zodiac).

Sports

• Professional golf superstar Eldrick "Tiger" Woods.
• A name for several professional sports teams;
  • Detroit Tigers (baseball)
  • Lakeland Tigers (baseball)
  • Leicester Tigers (rugby union)
  • Castleford Tigers (rugby league)
  • Hamilton Tigers (ice hockey)
  • Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Canadian football)
• The mascot of many college sports programs, notably
  • Auburn University in Alabama
  • Clemson University in South Carolina
  • Grambling State University in Louisiana
  • Jackson State University in Mississippi
  • Louisiana State University
  • Princeton University in New Jersey
  • Towson University in Maryland

Vehicles

• The name of a German tank, primarily used during World War II. See Tiger I and Tiger II.
• Eurocopter Tiger, a European attack helicopter.
• Another name for the F-5 Freedom Fighter.

Entertainment

• The title of a comic strip [1] (http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/tiger/about.htm)
• The nickname of the British pop singer Tom Jones.
• Tiger, a 1997 German family comedy movie

• Bewafa Qatil, a 1932 Indian silent film
• Da xu hai, Tiger in its English dub, a 1973 Chinese-language film
• Tigar, a 1978 Serbo-Croatian language film made in Yugoslavia
• Tiger, a 1979 Indian (Telugu) movie
• Puli, Tiger in its English dub, a 1985 Indian (Telugu) action movie
• Tiger, a 1994 Canadian short film

• Tiger, a 1997 documentary by the National Wildlife Federation and Turner Original Productions
• Tiger Electronics is a USA-based toys manufacturer.

Math and sciences

• The code name for Mac OS X 10.4, an upgrade of the operating system for Apple Macintoshes that is currently in development.
• The code name for Java 1.5, the version of Java released in 2004.
• Tiger is a cryptographic hash function.

Other

• The Tiger, a leading American high school newspaper, based in South Pasadena, California.
• City of Tigers, pet name for the city of Oslo.
• The nickname of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
• Tony the Tiger, who loves Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal. (i.e. "They're GRRRRRRReat!")