Word Finder - fat

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A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.

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A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.

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That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

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We need to trim the fat in this company

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An erection.

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I saw Daniel crack a fat.

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A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

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The best or richest productions; the best part.

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to live on the fat of the land

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Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

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A fat person.

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A beef cattle fattened for sale.

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To make fat; to fatten.

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kill the fatted calf

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To become fat; to fatten.

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

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The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

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Thick.

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The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

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Bountiful.

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Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).

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Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

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Fertile; productive.

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a fat soil;  a fat pasture

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Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

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a fat benefice;  a fat office;  a fat job

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Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

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Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

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a fat take;  a fat page

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(originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.

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Sexy.

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Rich in texture; prominent.

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The song has a phat bass line.

I feel fat and lazy.

Here was her fat little neck.

The market man showed him a fat turkey, plump and white and ready for roasting.

Snow fell in lazy, fat flakes, sticking to his clothes and hair.

In this world, humans have grown fat, stopped walking, and fill their days with non-stop entertainment and food.

When we went home we saw eight rabbits and two fat puppies, and a nice little white pony, and two wee kittens and a pretty curly dog named Don.

My father lived to be ninety years old, and he never went on no fat diet.

On the deposition of Charles the Fat in 887 he was excluded from the throne by his youth; but during the reign of Odo, who had succeeded Charles, he succeeded in gaining the recognition of a certain number of notables and in securing his coronation at Reims on the 28th of January 893.

Vegetarian and vegan options will cut out much of the animal fat and cholesterol from your dinner.

This fat growing evergreen develops long shoots with small adhesive rootlets.

Most paneer dishes are coated with butter or cream-based sauces that quickly add calories and fat to your dish.

Then again, don't the fat years make up for all this?

Fat raindrops soaked his clothing and left him chilled.

Now maybe you can buy your own Fat Tire Ale.

Carbohydrates are not fattening, potatoes contain no fat at all!

A tray containing lard or solid fat can also do the trick.

I live on the fat of the land--don't I, Ozma?

A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure.

In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots.

Dean cringed at the word "fat."

Friend E suggested I only employ au pairs who were too fat to attract a social life.

She thinks everyone here views her as short and fat.

We'll have us a good old mess of Polk weed and fat back.

The digestion of fat or oil has not been adequately investigated, but its decomposition in germinating seeds has been found to be due to an enzyme, which has been called lipase.

The slighting references to it by the Christian fathers are no more an argument against its existence in the primitive church than the similar denunciations by the Jewish prophets of burnt-offerings and sacrifices are any proof that there were no such rites as the offering of incense, and of the blood of bulls and fat of rams, in the worship of the temple at Jerusalem.

There are two varieties of sheep, both having the fat tail.

Its flesh is palatable although wanting in fat, while its skin forms the chief clothing material of the Patagonians.

The most important of the animal fats are those of the ox and hog, and of the vegetable oils cotton-seed and coco-nut; it is also to be remembered that resin, although not a fat, is also important in soap-making.

Of the vegetable oils, in addition to cotton-seed and coco-nut, olive oil is the basis of soaps for calico printers and silk dyers; castor oil yields transparent soaps (under suitable treatment), whilst crude palm oil, with bone fat, is employed for making brown soap, and after bleaching it yields ordinary pale or mottled.

The processes of soap manufacture may be classified (a) according to the temperatures employed into (I) cold processes and (2) boiling processes, or (b) according to the nature of the starting material - acid or oil and fat - and the relative amount of alkali, into (1) direct saturation of the fatty acid with alkali, (2) treating the fat with a definite amount of alkali with no removal of unused lye, (3) treating the fat with an indefinite amount of alkali, also with no separation of unused lye, (4) treating the fat with an indefinite amount of alkali with separation of waste lye.

In Germany tallow is the principal fat; in France olive oil occupies the chief place and the product is known as Marseilles or Castile soap; and in England tallow and palm oil are largely used.

So soon as the tallow is melted a quantity of weak lye is added, and the agitation of the injected steam causes the fat and lye to become intimately mixed and produces a milky emulsion.

The bull was to be sacrificed to Mithras, who was to mingle its fat with consecrated wine and give to drink of it to the just, rendering them immortal, while the unjust, together with Ahriman and his spirits, were to be destroyed by a fire sent from Heaven by Ormazd.

The noveschi, being "fat burghers" with powerful connexions, abilities and traditions, gained increased strength and influence in exile; and five years later, on 22nd July 1487, they returned triumphantly to Siena, dispersed the few adherents of the popolo who offered resistance, murdered the captain of the people, reorganized the state, and placed it under the protection of the Virgin Mary.

Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

Within the cytoplasm are found manifestations of functional activity, in the form of digestive vacuoles, granules, fat, glycogen, pigment, and foreign bodies.

Adiposity or obesity occurs when we have an excessive amount of fat stored in the normal connective-tissue areas of adipose tissue.

In diabetes mellitus, in which there is marked derangement in metabolism, extreme fatty changes are occasionally found in the organs, and the blood may be loaded with fat globules.

There it is acted on by ferments (lipases) and converted into neutral fat, which may remain in the cell as such.

The fat in this condition is readily recognized by the usual microchemical and staining reactions.

Some investigators hold that the soaps may become combined with albumin, and that on becoming incorporated with the cytoplasm they can no longer be distinguished as fat.

Apart from some southern dialect forms which have found their way into the literary language, as vat (for fat or wine fat which still survives in the English Bible) and vixen the feminine of fox, all the words in English which begin with V are of foreign, and most of Latin origin.

Goats are raised in Piura and Lambayeque for their skins and fat, and swine-breeding for the production of lard has become important in some of the coast valleys immediately north of Lima.

At a later period when he had grown fat he accounted for his skill in taking "cut balls" at tennis by saying that he was a very "painstaking man."

This is why fat of a victim was smeared an a sacred stone, not only in acts of homage paid to it, but in the actual consecration thereof.

The men are tall and thin, the women fat and under middle height.

There is no universal method of oil-refining applicable to any and every oil or fat.

Fat is an abundant source of energy for the endurance athlete.

In the fat years, agricultural prices are pushed downward by the abundance, often below the cost of harvesting and transporting the crops.

The cheaper mottled and brown soaps have for their basis bone fat, obtained by treating bones with superheated steam or other methods.