fat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
media
printing
publishing
sports
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: fats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
gloss: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.
gloss: That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We need to trim the fat in this company
gloss: An erection.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: I saw Daniel crack a fat.
gloss: A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The best or richest productions; the best part.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: to live on the fat of the land
gloss: Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: A fat person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
gloss: A beef cattle fattened for sale.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
usually
examples: Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.
He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle.
gloss: To make fat; to fatten.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: kill the fatted calf
gloss: To become fat; to fatten.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “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.”
Synonyms: fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
blubber
fat
flab
speck
weight
adipose tissue
lard
suet
grease
Related words: lipic
lipid
obese
overweight
paunch
Derived words: animal fat
antifat
baby fat
backfat
bacon fat
beige fat
body fat
bodyfat
brown fat
buccal fat extraction
buccal fat removal
butterfat
caul fat
chew the fat
crack a fat
death fat
deep-fat-fry
deep-fat fryer
defat
fatback
fatberg
fatburger
fat camp
fat chance
fat-chewing
fat content
fat-free
fatgraph
fat is flavor
fat is flavour
fatless
fatlike
fatliquor
fatliquoring
fat of the land
fat pad
fat sandwich
fat-soluble
fatten
fat-wash
fat washing
fat-washing
full-fat
green fat
hamfat
infinifat
leaf fat
low-fat
macaw fat
marrowfat
milkfat
mule fat
mutton fat
nonfat
otoba fat
palm fat
polyunsaturated fat
pull someone's fat out of the fire
pull the fat out of the fire
puppy fat
reduced-fat milk
saturated fat
the fat hit the fire
trans fat
unsaturated fat
vegetable fat
white fat
winterfat
wool fat
yellow fat disease
fat up
unfattable
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: vet
lang: Albanian
word: dhjamë
lang: Southern Altai
word: јуу
roman: ǰuu
lang: Southern Altai
word: май
roman: may
lang: Western Apache
word: biʼikʼah
lang: Arabic
word: دُهْن
roman: duhn
lang: Arabic
word: شَحْم
roman: šaḥm
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word: ճարպ
roman: čarp
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word: grãsimi
lang: Aromanian
word: grãsime
lang: Assamese
word: শকত
roman: xokot
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word: yağ
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word: piy
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word: тлушч
roman: tlušč
lang: Belarusian
word: жыр
roman: žyr
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word: চর্বি
roman: corbi
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word: лой
roman: loj
lang: Bulgarian
word: тлъстина́
roman: tlǎstiná
lang: Bulgarian
word: мазнина́
roman: mazniná
lang: Burmese
word: အဆီ
roman: a.hci
lang: Buryat
word: тоһон
roman: tohon
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: тук
roman: tuk
lang: Catalan
word: greix
lang: Cebuano
word: tambok
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 脂肪
roman: zi¹ fong¹
lang: Chinese
word: 膩瓤 /腻瓤
roman: jī-nn̂g
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 脂肪
roman: zhīfáng
lang: Chuvash
word: ҫу
roman: śu
lang: Chuvash
word: ҫӑв
roman: śăv
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: mafura
lang: Czech
word: tuk
lang: Danish
word: fedt
lang: Dutch
word: vet
lang: Dutch
word: vetlaag
lang: Egyptian
word: D:d-A-Aa2
roman: ḏdꜣ
lang: Erzya
word: куя
roman: kuja
lang: Esperanto
word: graso
lang: Estonian
word: rasv
lang: Even
word: имсэ
roman: imsə
lang: Evenki
word: имуксэ
roman: imuksə
lang: Faroese
word: fiti
lang: Finnish
word: rasva
lang: Finnish
word: silava
lang: Finnish
word: läski
lang: French
word: graisse
lang: Galician
word: gordura
lang: Galician
word: graxa
lang: Georgian
word: ცხიმი
roman: cximi
lang: Georgian
word: ქონი
roman: koni
lang: German
word: Fett
lang: German
word: Schmër
lang: Greek
word: λίπος
roman: lípos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: στέαρ
roman: stéar
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πιμελή
roman: pimelḗ
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: kyra
lang: Haitian Creole
word: mantèg
lang: Hawaiian
word: mona
lang: Hawaiian
word: momona
lang: Hebrew
word: שׁוּמָן
lang: Hebrew
word: שומן
roman: shumán
lang: Higaonon
word: lambo
lang: Hindi
word: वसा
roman: vasā
lang: Hindi
word: चरबी
roman: carbī
lang: Hinukh
word: мии
roman: mii
lang: White Hmong
word: roj
lang: Hungarian
word: zsír
lang: Hungarian
word: háj
lang: Icelandic
word: fita
lang: Ido
word: graso
lang: Indonesian
word: lemak
lang: Interlingua
word: grassia
lang: Irish
word: saill
lang: Italian
word: grasso
lang: Japanese
word: 脂肪
roman: shibō
lang: Japanese
word: 脂
roman: abura
lang: Javanese
word: ꦒꦗꦶꦃ
roman: gajih
lang: Old Javanese
word: wuduk
lang: Jeju
word: 지름
roman: jireum
lang: Kalmyk
word: тосн
roman: tosn
lang: Kannada
word: ಕೊಬ್ಬು
roman: kobbu
lang: Kashubian
word: tłuszcz
lang: Kashubian
word: sadło
lang: Kazakh
word: май
roman: mai
lang: Khinalug
word: ми
roman: mi
lang: Khmer
word: ខ្លាញ់
roman: khlañ
lang: Kikuyu
word: maguta
lang: Korean
word: 지방
roman: jibang
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بەز
roman: bez
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bez
lang: Kyrgyz
word: май
roman: may
lang: Lak
word: май
roman: may
lang: Lao
word: ໄຂມັນ
roman: khai man
lang: Latin
word: adeps
lang: Latvian
word: tauki
lang: Lezgi
word: гъери
roman: ġeri
lang: Lingala
word: mafúta
lang: Linngithigh
word: ki'
lang: Lithuanian
word: riebalai
lang: Lithuanian
word: taukai
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: lagrès
lang: Low German
word: Fett
lang: Macedonian
word: маст
roman: mast
lang: Macedonian
word: сало
roman: salo
lang: Maguindanao
word: lambu'
lang: Malay
word: lemak
lang: Manchu
word: ᠨᡳᠮᡝᠩᡤᡳ
roman: nimenggi
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ
roman: tarhūn
lang: Mansaka
word: taba
lang: Māori
word: matū
lang: Māori
word: matu
lang: Māori
word: ngako
lang: Maranao
word: lembo'
lang: Moksha
word: куя
roman: kujä
lang: Mongolian
word: өөх
roman: ööx
lang: Mongolian
word: тос
roman: tos
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠥᠭᠡᠬᠦ
roman: ögekü
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠲᠣᠰᠤ
roman: tosu
lang: Nanai
word: симуксэ
roman: simukse
lang: Navajo
word: akʼah
lang: Nepali
word: बोसो
roman: boso
lang: Nivkh
word: тʼом
roman: tʼom
lang: Norman
word: graîsse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fett
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: feitt
lang: Occitan
word: grais
lang: Odia
word: ଚର୍ବି
roman: carbi
lang: Ojibwe
word: wiinin
lang: Old English
word: rysel
lang: Oromo
word: cooma
lang: Pali
word: vasā
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: масц
roman: masc
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: садло
roman: sadlo
lang: Pashto
word: وازګه
roman: wāzga
lang: Pashto
word: څرب
roman: carb
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چَرْبی
roman: čarbi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پیه
roman: pih
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رُوْغَن
roman: rowġan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: وَز
roman: vaz
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Fat (nds)
lang: Polish
word: tłuszcz
lang: Portuguese
word: gordura
lang: Portuguese
word: tecido adiposo
lang: Rarotongan
word: matū
lang: Rarotongan
word: momona
lang: Romanian
word: grăsime
lang: Russian
word: жир
roman: žir
lang: Russian
word: са́ло
roman: sálo
lang: Rwanda-Rundi
word: amavuta
lang: Sanskrit
word: वसा
roman: vásā
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sult
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ма̑ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: са̏ло
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ло̑ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȃst
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȁlo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lȏj
lang: Sicilian
word: rassu
lang: Sicilian
word: sivu
lang: Sicilian
word: siu
lang: Slovak
word: tuk
lang: Slovene
word: mast
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: tucne
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: tuk
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: tučno
lang: Spanish
word: grasa
lang: Spanish
word: crasitud
lang: Spanish
word: grosura
lang: Spanish
word: saín
lang: Spanish
word: gordura
lang: Spanish
word: graso
lang: Spanish
word: sebo
lang: Sundanese
word: gajih
lang: Swahili
word: mafuta
lang: Swedish
word: fett
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻaʻo
lang: Tajik
word: чарбу
roman: čarbu
lang: Tajik
word: пиҳ
roman: pih
lang: Tajik
word: равған
roman: ravġan
lang: Tamil
word: கொழுப்பு
roman: koḻuppu
lang: Tarantino
word: gruèsse
lang: Tarifit
word: tadunt
lang: Telugu
word: కొవ్వు
roman: kovvu
lang: Tetum
word: mina
lang: Thai
word: ไขมัน
roman: kǎi-man
lang: Tibetan
word: ཚིལ
roman: tshil
lang: Tibetan
word: ཞག་ཚིལ
roman: zhag tshil
lang: Tibetan
word: བཞེས་ཚིལ
roman: bzhes tshil
lang: Tok Pisin
word: gris
lang: Turkish
word: yağ
lang: Turkmen
word: ýag
lang: Ukrainian
word: жир
roman: žyr
lang: Urdu
word: چَرْبی
roman: carbī
lang: Uyghur
word: ياغ
roman: yagh
lang: Uyghur
word: ماي
roman: may
lang: Uzbek
word: yogʻ
lang: Uzbek
word: may
lang: Vietnamese
word: mỡ
lang: Welsh
word: braster
lang: Yámana
word: ušlamuši
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿעץ
roman: fets
lang: Yoruba
word: ọ̀rá
lang: Zealandic
word: vet
lang: Zealandic
word: smout
lang: Zhuang
word: lauz
lang: Zhuang
word: lauzhaj
lang: Zulu
word: amafutha