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FAT
fat
(adjective) having an (over)abundance of flesh; “he hadn’t remembered how fat she was”
fatty, fat
(adjective) containing or composed of fat; “fatty food”; “fat tissue”
fat, fertile, productive, rich
(adjective) marked by great fruitfulness; “fertile farmland”; “a fat land”; “a productive vineyard”; “rich soil”
fat, juicy
(adjective) lucrative; “a juicy contract”; “a nice fat job”
fat
(adjective) having a relatively large diameter; “a fat rope”
fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois
(noun) excess bodily weight; “she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others”
fat
(noun) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); “pizza has too much fat”
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
(verb) make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
fat (comparative fatter, )
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
Thick.
Bountiful.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Fertile; productive.
Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
Alternative form of phat
Synonyms
• (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also obese
• (thick): thick
• (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous
Antonyms
• Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin
Noun
fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)
(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
(countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
(slang) An erection.
(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
The best or richest productions; the best part.
(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
(informal) A fat person.
A beef cattle fattened for sale.
Synonyms
• (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat)
• (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
• (fat person): fatty, fatso see also fat person
Verb
fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)
(transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
(intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
Etymology 2
Noun
fat (plural fats)
(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
Synonyms
• vat
Anagrams
• AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, aft, aft-, taf
Noun
FAT (countable and uncountable, plural FATs)
(computing) Acronym of File Allocation Table.
(genetics, protein) Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation
Anagrams
• AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, aft, aft-, taf
Source: Wiktionary
Fat, n. Etym: [See Vat, n.]
1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.] The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.
2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.
Fat, a. [Compar. Fatter; superl. Fattest.] Etym: [AS. fætt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.]
1. Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson. Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.
3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.
5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.] Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.
6. (Typog.)
Definition: Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page. Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.
Fat, n.
1. (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
Note: Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.
2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
3. (Typog.)
Definition: Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. Fat acid. (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic.
– Fat series, Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series.
– Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted; p. pr. & vb. n. atting.] Etym: [OE. fatten, AS. f. See Fat, a., and cf. Fatten.]
Definition: To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.
Fat, v. i.
Definition: To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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