fat

Bedeutung

Adj

1. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
2. Thick; large.
3. Bulbous; rotund.
4. Bountiful.
5. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
6. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
7. Fertile; productive.
8. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
9. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
10. Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
11. Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
12. Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
13. (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
14. Carrying additional data or functionality.
15. Alternative form of phat

Noun

1. A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
2. A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
3. 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.
4. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
5. (slang) An erection.
6. A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
7. The best or richest productions; the best part.
8. Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
9. (informal) A fat person.
10. A beef cattle fattened for sale.

Verb

1. To make fat; to fatten.
2. To become fat; to fatten.
3. To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
2. (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/fæt/

Etymologie

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”).