Fat
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Top 500 ·Elementary level
Definitions
- 1 A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. uncountable, usually
"Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter."
- 2 A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. obsolete
"And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle."
- 3 A fop or dandy.
"I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could."
- 4 Acronym of file allocation table. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 5 excess bodily weight wordnet
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- 6 A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.; Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts. uncountable, usually
"Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens."
- 7 A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels. obsolete
- 8 Acronym of file allocation table.; Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.; FAT16 or FAT16B. countable, often, specifically, uncountable
- 9 a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs wordnet
- 10 A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids. countable, usually
"Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it."
- 11 Acronym of file allocation table.; Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.; FAT12. countable, sometimes, specifically, uncountable
- 12 a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) wordnet
- 13 That part of an organization deemed wasteful. uncountable, usually
"We need to trim the fat in this company"
- 14 Acronym of file allocation table.; Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.; FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two. countable, specifically, uncountable
- 15 An erection. slang, uncountable, usually
"I saw Daniel crack a fat."
- 16 Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation. countable, uncountable
- 17 A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe) uncountable, usually
- 18 Initialism of full agricultural tenancy. England, Wales, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 19 The best or richest productions; the best part. uncountable, usually
"to live on the fat of the land"
- 20 Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor. dated, uncountable, usually
- 21 A fat person. derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually
"Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please."
- 22 A beef cattle fattened for sale. uncountable, usually
"Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us."
- 1 To make fat; to fatten. archaic, transitive
"kill the fatted calf"
- 2 make fat or plump wordnet
- 3 To become fat; to fatten. archaic, intransitive
- 4 To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot. transitive
"“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”"
- 1 Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. derogatory, sometimes
"The fat man had problems going through the door."
- 2 Thick; large.
"The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers."
- 3 Bulbous; rotund.
"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."
- 4 Bountiful.
- 5 Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
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- 6 Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. obsolete
"Make the heart of this people fat,[…]"
- 7 Fertile; productive.
"a fat soil; a fat pasture"
- 8 Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
"a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job"
- 9 Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
", "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected" persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture"
- 10 Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc. dated
"a fat take; a fat page"
- 11 Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
"Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot."
- 12 Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
"He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state."
- 13 Being greatly or substantially such; real. slang
"1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry."
- 14 Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- 15 Carrying additional data or functionality.
"fat client"
- 16 Alternative form of phat. alt-of, alternative
"This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer."
- 1 having an (over)abundance of flesh wordnet
- 2 containing or composed of fat wordnet
- 3 marked by great fruitfulness wordnet
- 4 lucrative wordnet
- 5 having a relatively large diameter wordnet
Example
More examples"If you eat too much, you'll become fat."
Etymology
From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).
From Middle English fat, 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 French fat (“conceited person”).