fat
see also: FAT
Pronunciation Adjective
FAT
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: FAT
Pronunciation Adjective
fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
- While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
- 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press (ISBN 9781935955962), page 46:
- Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
- The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
- The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
- 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
- Thick.
- The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- Bountiful.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- making our western wits fat and mean
- Bible, Book of Isaiah vi. 10
- Make the heart of this people fat.
- Fertile; productive.
- a fat soil; a fat pasture
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
- now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures
- (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
- a fat take; a fat page
- Alternative form of phat
- (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat) chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
- (thick) thick
- (bountiful) bountiful, prosperous
- French: gros, gras
- German: dick, fett
- Italian: grasso, obeso, palla di lardo
- Portuguese: gordo, obeso
- Russian: то́лстый
- Spanish: gordo
- French: épais
- German: dick; fett
- Italian: grosso, gonfio
- Portuguese: gordo, grosso
- Russian: то́лстый
- Spanish: grueso
- Portuguese: gordo
fat (uncountable)
- (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.
- We need to trim the fat in this company
- (slang) An erection.
- I saw Daniel crack a fat.
- (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.
- to live on the fat of the land
- (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
- (informal) A fat person.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019 ↗
- Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019 ↗
- (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#Noun|fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
- French: graisse
- German: Fett
- Italian: grasso
- Portuguese: gordura, tecido adiposo
- Russian: жир
- Spanish: grasa
- French: gras, matière grasse
- German: Fett
- Italian: grasso
- Portuguese: gordura, graxa, banha
- Russian: жир
- Spanish: grasa
- Italian: ramo secco
fat (fats, present participle fatting; past and past participle fatted)
- (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
- (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
- French: engraisser
- Italian: ingrassare
- Portuguese: engordar, cevar
- Russian: толсте́ть
fat (plural fats)
- (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Joel 2:24 ↗:
- And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
- In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
- (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
FAT
Pronunciation Noun
fat
- (computing) Acronym of w:File Allocation Table
- (genetics, protein) Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation
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