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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fat \Fat\, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See {Adipose tissue}, under {Adipose}. Note: Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc 2. The best or richest productions; the best part as to live on the fat of the land. 3. (Typog.) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore, profitable to the compositor. {Fat acid}. (Chem.) See {Sebacic acid}, under {Sebacic}. {Fat series}, {Fatty series} (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. {Natural fats} (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fat \Fat\, n. [See {Vat}, n.] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.] The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. --Joel ii 24. 2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] --Hebert. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fat \Fat\, a. [Compar. {Fatter}; superl. {Fattest}.] [AS. f[=ae]tt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.] 1. Abounding with fat; as: a Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as a fat man; a fat ox b Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food. 2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. Making our western wits fat and mean --Emerson. Make the heart of this people fat. --Is. vi 10. 3. Fertile; productive; as a fat soil; a fat pasture. 4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. --Carlyle. 5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.] Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. --Swift. 6. (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as a fat take a fat page. {Fat lute}, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fat \Fat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fatted}; p. pr & vb n. {atting}.] [OE. fatten, AS f[=ae]ttian. See {Fat}, a., and cf {Fatten}.] To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fat \Fat\, v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. An old ox fats as well and is as good, as a young one --Mortimer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fat adj 1: having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" [ant: {thin}] 2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope" 3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: {fatty}] [ant: {nonfat}] 4: (informal) lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: {juicy}] 5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: {fertile}, {productive}, {rich}] 6: a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: {rounded}] n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue; "pizza has too much fat" 2: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: {adipose tissue}, {fatty tissue}] 3: excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" [syn: {fatness}, {avoirdupois}] [ant: {leanness}] v : make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: {fatten}, {flesh out}, {fill out}, {plump}, {plump out}, {fatten out}, {fatten up}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: FAT {File Allocation Table} From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Fat (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12; Ps 81:16; 147:47). The fat of sacrifices was to be burned (Lev. 3:9-11; 4:8; 7:3; 8:25; Num. 18:17. Comp. Ex 29:13-22; Lev. 3:3-5). It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind (Ps 17:10). In Joel 2:24 the word is equivalent to "vat," a vessel. The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat" and "press-fat" (Hag. 2:16; Isa. 63:2). From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: FAT File Allocation Table (DOS)
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