fat

[Fat]

A dangerous word, fat. It means large, or overweight, or dare we say it? even obese. If your brother has gotten fat, you might want to be tactful and call him "large boned" instead.

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A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

Noun
excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"

Noun
a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"

Noun
a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"

Verb
make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"

Adjective S.
a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"

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Adjective
having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn''t remembered how fat she was"

Adjective
containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"

Adjective S.
marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"

Adjective S.
lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"

Adjective S.
having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"


n.
A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

n.
A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

superl.
Abounding with fat

superl.
Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

superl.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

superl.
Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

superl.
Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

superl.
Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

superl.
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

superl.
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.

n.
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.

n.
The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

n.
Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

a.
To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

v. i.
To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.


Fat

Fat , n. [See Vat, n.] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
The fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.

Fat

Fat, a. [Compar. Fatter ; superl. Fattest .] [AS. f&aemac;tt; 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.
Make the heart of this people fat.
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.
5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]
Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures.
6. (Typog.) 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

Fat , n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) 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. &hand; 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.) 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

Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted ; p. pr. & vb. n. atting .] [OE. fatten, AS. fttian. See Fat, a., and cf. Fatten.] 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.

Fat

Fat, v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

Abounding with fat

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.

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

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Usage Examples

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Misspelled Form

fat, dfat, rfat, tfat, gfat, vfat, cfat, dat, rat, tat, gat, vat, cat, fdat, frat, ftat, fgat, fvat, fcat, fqat, fwat, fsat, fzat, fqt, fwt, fst, fzt, faqt, fawt, fast, fazt, fart, fa5t, fa6t, fayt, fagt, far, fa5, fa6, fay, fag, fatr, fat5, fat6, faty, fatg.

Other Usage Examples

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

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