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fat - a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat" |
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lipid,
lipide,
lipoid an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates)
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adipose cell,
fat cell cells composed of fat
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edible fat oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue
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animal fat any fat obtained from animals; "animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids"
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cocoa butter the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate
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leaf fat,
leaf lard fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard
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acylglycerol,
glyceride an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid"
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triglyceride glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
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myelin,
myeline,
medulla a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers
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polyunsaturated fat a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol
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fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
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lean,
thin not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
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endomorphic,
pyknic having a squat and fleshy build; "a pyknic practical joke"
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rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
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thick abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"
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body weight the weight of a person's body
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abdominous,
paunchy,
potbellied having a large belly
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blubbery swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"
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chubby,
embonpoint,
plump sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";
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zaftig,
zoftig,
buxom (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton;
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corpulent,
obese,
rotund,
weighty excessively fat; "a weighty man"
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double-chinned,
jowly,
loose-jowled having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw
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podgy,
pudgy,
roly-poly,
tubby,
dumpy short and plump
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fattish somewhat fat
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overweight,
fleshy,
heavy usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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porcine,
gross relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"
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portly,
stout euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout"
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fat - marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" |
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fertile,
productive,
rich |
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fruitful productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
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fat - lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" |
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juicy |
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profitable yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"
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colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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fat - having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope" |
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thick abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"
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