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Fat

In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.The term often refers specifically to triglycerides (triple esters of glycerol), that are the main components of vegetable oils and of fatty tissue in animals; or, even more narrowly, to triglycerides that are solid or semisolid at room temperature, thus excluding oils. The term may also be used more broadly as a synonym of lipid—any substance of biological relevance, composed of carbon, hydrogen, or oxygen, that is insoluble in water but soluble in non-polar solvents.

Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.

Fat

A natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs
Whales and seals insulate themselves with layers of fat

Plum

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus of the rose family, especially the cultivated species P. domestica and P. salicina, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single stone.

Fat

Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat
Some 40 per cent of our daily calories are derived from dietary fats
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Plum

The fruit of any of these trees.

Fat

(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh
The driver was a fat wheezing man

Plum

Any of several trees bearing plumlike fruit.

Fat

Large in bulk or circumference
A fat cigarette

Plum

The fruit of such a tree.
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Fat

Make or become fat
The hogs have been fatting
Numbers of black cattle are fatted here

Plum

A raisin, when added to a pudding or cake.

Fat

The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.

Plum

A sugarplum.

Fat

Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.

Plum

A dark purple to deep reddish purple.

Fat

A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.

Plum

An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward
An ambassadorship granted as a political plum.

Fat

Animal tissue containing such substances.

Plum

Variant of plumb.

Fat

A solidified animal or vegetable oil.

Plum

Variant of plumb.

Fat

Obesity; corpulence
Health risks associated with fat.

Plum

The fruit and its tree.

Fat

Unnecessary excess
"would drain the appropriation's fat without cutting into education's muscle" (New York Times).

Plum

An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.

Fat

Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.

Plum

A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Fat

Full of fat or oil; greasy.

Plum

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.

Fat

Abounding in desirable elements
A paycheck fat with bonus money.

Plum

A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.

Fat

Fertile or productive; rich
"It was a fine, green, fat landscape" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

Plum

Extended senses.

Fat

Having an abundance or amplitude; well-stocked
A fat larder.

Plum

One hundred thousand pounds; generally a fortune.

Fat

Yielding profit or plenty; lucrative or rewarding
A fat promotion.

Plum

A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.

Fat

Prosperous; wealthy
Grew fat on illegal profits.

Plum

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

Fat

Thick; large
A fat book.

Plum

A testicle.

Fat

Puffed up; swollen
A fat lip.

Plum

A fool, an idiot.

Fat

To make or become fat; fatten.

Plum

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Fat

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

Plum

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.

Fat

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

Plum

Plumb

Fat

Bulbous; rotund.

Plum

Completely; utterly.
You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.

Fat

Bountiful.

Plum

(mining) To plumb.

Fat

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich said of food.

Plum

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation.

Fat

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

Plum

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Fat

Fertile; productive.
A fat soil; a fat pasture

Plum

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Fat

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
A fat benefice; a fat office;
A fat job

Plum

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Fat

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

Plum

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Fat

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

Plum

Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Fat

(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.

Plum

Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Fat

(theatre) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.

Plum

Exactly;
Fell plumb in the middle of the puddle

Fat

Alternative form of phat

Plum

Completely; used as intensifiers;
Clean forgot the appointment
I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out

Fat

(uncountable) 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.

Fat

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.

Fat

(countable) 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.
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.

Fat

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
We need to trim the fat in this company

Fat

(slang) An erection.
I saw Daniel crack a fat.

Fat

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

Fat

The best or richest productions; the best part.
To live on the fat of the land

Fat

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

Fat

A fat person.

Fat

A beef cattle fattened for sale.

Fat

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

Fat

(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Fat

To make fat; to fatten.
Kill the fatted calf

Fat

To become fat; to fatten.

Fat

To hit a golf ball with a fat shot.

Fat

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
The fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Fat

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

Fat

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.

Fat

The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

Fat

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

Fat

Abounding with fat

Fat

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Making our western wits fat and mean.
Make the heart of this people fat.

Fat

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

Fat

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.

Fat

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures.

Fat

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

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.

Fat

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.

Fat

A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides);
Pizza has too much fat

Fat

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

Fat

Excess bodily weight;
She found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others

Fat

Make fat or plump;
We will plump out that poor starving child

Fat

Having much flesh (especially fat);
He hadn't remembered how fat she was

Fat

Having a relatively large diameter;
A fat rope

Fat

Containing or composed of fat;
Fatty food
Fat tissue

Fat

Lucrative;
A juicy contract
A nice fat job

Fat

Marked by great fruitfulness;
Fertile farmland
A fat land
A productive vineyard
Rich soil

Fat

A chubby body;
The boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks

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