Fat meaning

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fats fatted fatter fattest fatting
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Full of fat or oil; greasy.
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Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.
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Unnecessary excess.
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Abounding in desirable elements.

A paycheck fat with bonus money.

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Having an abundance or amplitude; well-stocked.

A fat larder.

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Abounding in desirable elements.

A paycheck fat with bonus money.

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To make or become fat.
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Fertile or productive; rich.
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Anything unnecessary or superfluous that can be trimmed away.
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(chem.) A class of neutral lipids consisting of the various triglycerides: they are called oils if in the liquid state.
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Obesity; corpulence.

Health risks associated with fat.

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(File Allocation Table) The file system used for compatibility. Developed for floppy disks in the late 1970s, FAT was the file system for hard drives in DOS and also in Windows prior to NTFS. Today, FAT32 and exFAT are widely used for USB and external storage drives because they are supported by every major platform, including Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices. In addition, FAT is used for digital camera storage.FAT Directory and TableThe FAT directory maintains a list of file names and dates, and the FAT table has an entry for each drive cluster. When a drive is high-level formatted, the FAT table is recorded twice.The directory points to an entry in the table where the file starts. If the file is larger than one cluster, the first table entry points to the next entry and so on until the end of file (see below). See FAT32, file system, cluster and NTFS.
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Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.
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Full of fat or oil; greasy.
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Any of a large number of oily compounds that are widely found in plant and animal tissues and serve mainly as a reserve source of energy. In mammals, fat, or adipose tissue , is deposited beneath the skin and around the internal organs, where it also protects and insulates against heat loss. Fat is a necessary, efficient source of energy. An ounce of fat contains more than twice as much stored energy as does an ounce of protein or carbohydrates and is digested more slowly, resulting in the sensation of satiety after eating. It also enhances the taste, aroma, and texture of food. Fats are made chiefly of triglycerides, each molecule of which contains three fatty acids. Dietary fat supplies humans with essential fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid . Fat also regulates cholesterol metabolism and is a precursor of prostaglandins .
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Fat is defined as the semisolid or solid fatty acids found in animal tissue.

An example of fat is the greasy, white substance found on the edges and inside the meat on a piece of steak.

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The definition of fat is plump, obese or containing grease or oil.

An example of fat is the nature of a 500 pound person.

An example of fat is the nature of greasy french fries.

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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.

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Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

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The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

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Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; said of food.
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Bible, Is. vi. 10

Make the heart of this people fat.

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A fat soil; a fat pasture.

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Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

A fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

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Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
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(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.

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Alternative form of phat.
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(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
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(countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
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That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

We need to trim the fat in this company.

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(slang) An erection.

"I saw Daniel crack a fat."

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(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
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The best or richest productions; the best part.

To live on the fat of the land.

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(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
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(archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

Kill the fatted calf.

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(intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
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Obesity; corpulence.

Health risks associated with fat.

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To make or become fat; fatten.
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Obesity; corpulence.

Health risks associated with fat.

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Unnecessary excess.
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Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.
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Full of fat or oil; greasy.
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Fertile or productive; rich.
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Having an abundance or amplitude; well-stocked.

A fat larder.

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To make or become fat; fatten.
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Thick; broad.

The fat part of a baseball bat, a fat cigar.

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Containing something valuable in great quantity; fertile; productive.

Fat land.

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(slang) Desirable because large or important.

A fat role for an actor.

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Any of various mixtures of solid or semisolid triglycerides found in adipose animal tissue or in the seeds of plants: they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
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Any such substance used in cooking.
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Fleshiness; plumpness; corpulence.
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The richest or finest part of anything.
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(slang) a fat lot
  • Very little or none at all:
    A fat lot of good it will do him.
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(slang) fat chance
  • Very little or no chance.
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the fat is in the fire
  • Bad consequences are sure to follow; trouble lies ahead.
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the fat of the land
  • Desirable resources, especially when acquired with little effort:
    I fantasized about buying a farm and living off the fat of the land.
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(slang) a fat lot
  • Very little or none at all:
    A fat lot of good it will do him.
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(slang) fat chance
  • Very little or no chance.
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the fat is in the fire
  • Bad consequences are sure to follow; trouble lies ahead.
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the fat of the land
  • Desirable resources, especially when acquired with little effort:
    I fantasized about buying a farm and living off the fat of the land.
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a fat lot
  • very little or nothing
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chew the fat
  • to talk together; chat
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a fat chance
  • very little or no chance
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live off the fat of the land
  • to have, use, or enjoy the finest things, in abundance; live in luxury
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the fat is in the fire
  • the unfortunate thing has happened and cannot be undone
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
fat
Plural:
fats

Adjective

Base Form:
fat
Comparative:
fatter
Superlative:
fattest

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

the fat of the land
the fat of the land
a fat chance
live off the fat of the land

Origin of fat

  • Middle English from Old English fǣtt fatted peiə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English fǣtt fatted peiə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-Germanic *faitidaz (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijaną (“to make fat”), from *faitaz (“fat”), from Proto-Indo-European *poid- (“to abound in water, milk, or fat”), from Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with German feist (“fatted, plump, obese”). Related also to Dutch vet (“fat”), German fett (“fat, corpulent”), Swedish fet (“fat, oily, fatty”), Icelandic feitur (“fat”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

    From Wiktionary