LekhoriLekhoriCarrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
The fat man had problems going through the door.
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.
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.
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.
From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
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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.
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.
A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
A fop or dandy.
I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could.
Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation.
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 on the green.”