Fat

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fat \Fat\, n. [See {Vat}, n.]
     1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
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              The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. --Joel
                                                    ii. 24.


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     2. A measure of quantity, differing for different
        commodities. [Obs.] --Hebert.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fat \Fat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fatted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {atting}.] [OE. fatten, AS. f[=ae]ttian. 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.
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           We fat all creatures else to fat us.     --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
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     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.
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     2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to
        live on the fat of the land.
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     3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent,
        and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fat \Fat\, a. [Compar. {Fatter}; superl. {Fattest}.] [AS.
     f[=ae]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.
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     2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy;
        gross; dull; stupid.
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              Making our western wits fat and mean. --Emerson.
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              Make the heart of this people fat.    --Is. vi. 10.
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     3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
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     4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat
        benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
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              Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk.
                                                    --Carlyle.
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     5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]
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              Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures.
                                                    --Swift.
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     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.
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     {Fat lute}, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling
        joints.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fat \Fat\, v. i.
     To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
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           An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.
                                                    --Mortimer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fat
       adj 1: having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered
              how fat she was" [ant: {thin}]
       2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
       3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
          [syn: {fatty}] [ant: {nonfat}]
       4: lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: {juicy}]
       5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
          land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: {fertile},
           {productive}, {rich}]
       6: a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"
          [syn: {rounded}]
       n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and
            consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly
            triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
       2: 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" [syn: {adipose tissue}, {fatty tissue}]
       3: excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in
          herself as well as in others" [syn: {fatness}, {blubber},
          {avoirdupois}] [ant: {leanness}]
       v : make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
           child" [syn: {fatten}, {flesh out}, {fill out}, {plump},
           {plump out}, {fatten out}, {fatten up}]
       [also: {fatting}, {fatted}, {fattest}, {fatter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  394 Moby Thesaurus words for "fat":
     Boeotian, Haliver Oil, abounding, abounding in riches, abundant,
     adipose, adipose tissue, advantageous, affluent, all-sufficing,
     ample, animal oil, animal oils, aplenty, asinine, balmy, banausic,
     become overweight, bedizenment, beef tallow, beef-brained,
     beef-witted, beefy, big, big-bellied, big-rich, bloated, blockish,
     blocky, blooming, blossoming, blown up, blowzy, blubber, blubbery,
     bone oil, booming, bosomy, bottlenose oil, bottomless, bounteous,
     bountiful, bovine, brawny, breadwinning, broad, broad-bodied,
     bulky, bull, bullnecked, burly, butter, butterfat, buttery,
     butyraceous, buxom, cerate, champion, choice, cholesterol, chosen,
     chrismal, chrismatory, chubby, chumpish, chunky, clear, cloddish,
     coarse, cod-liver oil, comfortable, consonant, copious, corpulent,
     cowish, crass, cream, deep, dense, diffuse, dilated,
     disgustingly rich, distended, doegling oil, doltish, dripping,
     drippings, dropsical, drying oil, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical,
     duncish, duplication, duplication of effort, edematous, effuse,
     elect, elite, embellishment, enchymatous, engross, epidemic,
     essential oil, ester, exhaustless, expletive, extravagance,
     extravagant, exuberant, fair, fatten, fattish, fatty, fatty oil,
     featherbedding, fertile, filling, fish oil, fixed oil, flatulent,
     fleshy, flourishing, flower, flowering, flush, frightfully rich,
     frill, frills, frippery, fruiting, full, full-bodied, gain weight,
     gainful, galore, gassy, gather flesh, generous, ghee, gingerbread,
     glyceride, going strong, goose grease, grease, greasy, great,
     gross, halcyon, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, hippy, husky,
     hydrogenated fat, imposing, in full swing, in funds, in good case,
     in plenty, in quantity, in the money, incrassate, independent,
     independently rich, independently wealthy, ineducable,
     inexhaustible, inflated, klutzy, lanolin, lard, lard oil,
     lardaceous, lardy, lavish, leaden, liberal, lipid, lipin, lipoid,
     lipoma, loaded, lucrative, lumpish, lusty, luxuriant, luxurious,
     luxury, made of money, many, margarine, massive, massy, maximal,
     meaty, mineral oil, moneyed, moneymaking, much, mucoid,
     mutton tallow, needlessness, negligible, nonesuch, nonpareil,
     numerous, oafish, obese, off, oil, oily, oleaginous, oleic, oleo,
     oleomargarine, oleum, oofy, opaque, optimum, opulent,
     ornamentation, orotund, outside, overabundance, overadornment,
     overblown, overflow, overflowing, overkill, overlap, overmuch,
     overplus, overweight, padding, palmy, paragon, paunchy, paying,
     payroll padding, pick, pinguefy, piping, plenitudinous, plenteous,
     plentiful, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, plethoric, plump, podgy,
     polyunsaturated fat, ponderous, porpoise oil, portly, potbellied,
     prevailing, prevalent, pride, prime, prize, prodigal, productive,
     profitable, profuse, profusive, prolixity, prospering,
     provided for, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy,
     put on weight, queen, quintessence, rampant, redundance,
     redundancy, remunerative, replete, resounding, retrousse, rich,
     rich as Croesus, rife, ringing, riotous, rolling in money,
     roly-poly, rosy, rotund, round, running over, seal oil, sebaceous,
     sebum, select, shortening, sleek, slender, slick, slight, slim,
     slippery, small, smooth, snub-nosed, soapy, sonorous, sottish,
     square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, steroid, stocky,
     stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stupid, suet, suety,
     superabundant, superfluity, superfluousness, superlative, surfeit,
     surplus, swelled, swollen, tallow, tallowy, tautology, teeming,
     the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, thick,
     thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional, thriving, top,
     top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, turned-up, unctuous, unguent,
     unguentary, unguentous, unnecessariness, unsaturated fat,
     unteachable, vegetable oil, ventose, verbosity, vibrant, vigorous,
     viscous, volatile oil, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, weighty,
     well provided for, well-fed, well-fixed, well-found,
     well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-paying, well-provided,
     well-stocked, well-to-do, whale oil, wholesale, wide, windy,
     wool fat, worthwhile, wrongheaded
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  FAT
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  FAT
       
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Fat
     (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the
     fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice (Gen.
     4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen.
     45:18; Num. 18:12; Ps. 81:16; 147:47). The fat of sacrifices was
     to be burned (Lev. 3:9-11; 4:8; 7:3; 8:25; Num. 18:17. Comp. Ex.
     29:13-22; Lev. 3:3-5).
     
       It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind (Ps
     17:10).
     
       In Joel 2:24 the word is equivalent to "vat," a vessel. The
     hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat"
     and "press-fat" (Hag. 2:16; Isa. 63:2).