Tiger (disambiguation)

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Tiger is:

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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

  • The mascot of several college sports programs:

[edit] Vehicles

[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

[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

[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

[edit] See also