FAT

adjective fatter · fattest

1. derogatory, sometimes 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. 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).
6. obsolete Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. Make the heart of this people fat,[…]
7. Fertile; productive. a fat soil; a fat pasture
8. Rich; producing a large income; desirable. It's a fat contract for a fat part in the film, so he’ll grown fat on the profits.
9. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected" persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
10. dated 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
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. slang Being greatly or substantially such; real. 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 Alternative form of phat.phat This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.

Similar: chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, porky, rotund, tubby, well-fed, bountiful

noun fats

1. uncountable, usually 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. uncountable, usually 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. countable, usually 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.
4. uncountable, usually That part of an organization deemed wasteful. We need to trim the fat in this company
5. slang, uncountable, usually An erection. I saw Daniel crack a fat.
6. uncountable, usually A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
7. uncountable, usually The best or richest productions; the best part. to live on the fat of the land
8. dated, uncountable, usually Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
9. derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually A fat person. Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
10. Australia, uncountable, usually A beef cattle fattened for sale. Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

Similar: fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person, blubber, fat, flab, speck, weight, adipose tissue, lard, suet, grease, lard

verb fats · fatting · fatted

1. archaic, transitive To make fat; to fatten. kill the fatted calf
2. archaic, intransitive To become fat; to fatten.
3. transitive To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot. “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 o

noun fats

1. obsolete A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern. And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
2. obsolete A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Similar: blubber, fat, flab, speck, weight, vat, adipose tissue, lard

noun fats

1. A fop or dandy. I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could.

Similar: blubber, fat, flab, speck, weight, adipose tissue, lard

noun FATs

1. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of file allocation table.file allocation table
2. countable, often, specifically, uncountable FAT16 or FAT16B.
3. countable, sometimes, specifically, uncountable FAT12.
4. countable, specifically, uncountable FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.
5. countable, uncountable Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation.
6. England, Wales, abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of full agricultural tenancy.full agricultural tenancy