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fat

/ˈfæt/ symbol

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In Latin: pinguis, obēsus, gurdus Wiktionary

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  1. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fante Akan.

adjective

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

noun

  1. A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
    Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
  2. Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
    Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
  3. 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.
    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.

verb

  1. To make fat; to fatten.
    kill the fatted calf
  2. To become fat; to fatten.
  3. To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

Origin

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”).

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