Tiger (disambiguation)
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Tiger is:
- A mammal. See Tiger.
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[edit] 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).
[edit] Sports
- Professional golf superstar Eldrick "Tiger" Woods.
- Tiger Ali Singh, professional wrestler.
- The cricketer 'Tiger' Bill O'Reilly.
- Tiger Jeet Singh, professional wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh.
- A name for several professional sports teams:
- Tiger Cup, now named the ASEAN Football Championship, a football (soccer) tournament in Southeast Asia
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- Detroit Tigers (Major League Baseball)
- Castleford Tigers (rugby league)
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Canadian football)
- Hamilton Tigers (ice hockey)
- Hanshin Tigers (Japanese baseball)
- Lakeland Flying Tigers (baseball; Minor League Affiliate of the aforementioned Detroit Tigers)
- Leicester Tigers (rugby union)
- Medicine Hat Tigers (Canadian junior ice hockey)
- Melbourne Tigers, an Australian basketball team in the National Basketball League (Australia)
- Richmond Tigers, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League
- Tasmanian Tigers (cricket)
- Hull City, a football team.
- Beijing Tigers (Chinese baseball)
- The mascot of several college sports programs:
- Cincinnati Bengals (National Football League)
[edit] Vehicles
- The name of a German tank, 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.
- HMS Tiger, twelve ships of the Royal Navy
- Tiger, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
- Muscle car Sunbeam Tiger.
- Grumman American AA-5B Tiger light aircraft
[edit] Entertainment
- Tiger, a comic strip by Bud Blake
- The nickname of the British pop singer Tom Jones
- The nickname of Taiwanese martial artist Ho-Chung Tao
- Tigger, a tiger character in Winnie the Pooh
- 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 character in the 1986 animated movie An American Tail
- Tiger, a 1994 Canadian short film
- Tiger, a 1997 documentary by the National Wildlife Federation]
- Tiger, a mid-'70s rock band
- Tiger, a late '90s Britpop band
- Tiger, a Jamaican dancehall musician
- The Tigers, a New Zealand pop/rock band 1979–1982
- Tiger Hutchence,the only child of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence
- Kamen Rider Tiger, a character from Kamen Rider Ryuki.
- Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company
- Tiger, the number one ranked player in Maplestory Global (gMS).
[edit] Corporations
- Tiger Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer based in West Virginia, USA
- Tiger Airways, a regional airline based in Singapore
- Tiger Corporation, a Japanese small appliance maker
- Tiger Direct, an online retailer of computer items based in Florida, USA
- Tiger Electronics, a USA-based toys manufacturer
- Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices
[edit] Math, Science and Technology
- The name for Mac OS X v10.4, an upgrade of the operating system for Apple Macintoshes that was released on April 29, 2005.
- The code name for J2SE 5.0, the version of Java programming language released in 2004.
- Tiger is a cryptographic hash function.
- Tiger is the name of a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne.
- Tiger is a Pascal-like programming language introduced by Andrew Appel in his book Modern Compiler Implementation.
- TIGER, Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks is a microbiological tool for identifying microbes.
[edit] History
- The nickname of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
- Tamil Tigers an armed, ethnic secessionist movement on Sri Lanka
[edit] Publications
- Tiger (comic), a Fleetway weekly for boys.
- The Tiger, a leading American high school newspaper, based in South Pasadena, California.
[edit] Other
- 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)
- City of Tigers, pet name for the city of Oslo.
- Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg's bFrosted Flakes cereal.
- A Tiger for Malgudi is an award wining novel by R.K. Narayan.
- Tiger (Monster Rancher) a species of fictional monster in Monster Rancher.
- TIGER/Line® Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, a mapping format used by the United States Census Bureau
- Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore.
- Tiger Stripe Camouflage is a type of camouflage pattern used by the armed forces of South Vietnam and by special forces units from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand during the Vietnam War in the form of camouflage combat uniforms. The Tiger Stripe camouflage pattern involves black tiger-like stripes on a green and brown background.
- Tiger 'Best Bitter', an ale brewed by the Everards brewery in Leicestershire, England.
- Tiger (Boy Scouts of America), a rank in the Cub Scout division of the Boy Scouts of America