Meaning

13 senses

  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.

    Fett, Schmër

    жирžir, са́лоsálo

    жирžyr

  2. A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.

    (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.

    Fett

    жирžir

    жирžyr

  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.

  10. (Australia, uncountable, usually)A beef cattle fattened for sale.

  11. A fop or dandy.

  12. (obsolete)A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

More definitions
  • a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
  • excess bodily weight
  • a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs

Examples

976 sentences

  1. Tom was too fat for Mary.

    Том був затовстий для Мері. — deniko

    ruТом был слишком толстым для Мэри. — odexed

    deTom war Maria zu dick. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom isn't as fat as Mary.

    Том не такий товстий, як Мері. — deniko

    ruТом не такой толстый, как Мэри. — sharptoothed

    deTom ist nicht so dick wie Maria. — wolfgangth

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  3. I know that Tom is fat.

    Я знаю, що Том гладкий. — deniko

    ruЯ знаю, что Том толстый. — marafon

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  4. Tom is too fat for Mary.

    Том для Мері загладкий. — deniko

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  5. Tom is fat, but Mary isn't.

    Том гладкий, а Мері ні. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
specialized animal tissue:
Русский
By meaning 1
specialized animal tissue:
Deutsch
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specialized animal tissue:

Origin

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old Engl

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”).

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Forms

plural: fats
Singularfat
Pluralfats

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
blubberC2weightA2flabspeckvat
animal tissue:adipose tissuelardsuet
substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat:grease
Close in meaning
  • excess bodily weight:fatnessblubberavoirdupois
  • a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs:adipose tissuefatty tissue

Word family

66 related words
RelatedoverweightA2lipiclipidobesepaunchfat choyfatty
Derivedanimal fatantifatbaby fatbackfatbacon fatbeige fatbodyfatbrown fatbutterfatcaul fatcrab fatdeep-fat-frydeep-fat fryerdefatfatbackfatbergfatburgerfat campfat chancefat-chewingfat contentfat-freefatgraphfatless

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as fat as
  • get fat
  • is too fat
  • was very fat
  • be so fat
  • a big fat
  • isn't as fat
  • too fat to
  • is quite fat
  • is fatter than
  • be much fatter
  • is fat and

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fastballfastenB1fastenerfastidiousfatalB2fatalityC1fatally

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