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FatFat 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. FatFat 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. FatFat 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. FatFat 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. Fat
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.
Meaning of Fat from wikipedia
- 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...
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fat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Fat is an oily or
greasy organic substance.
Fat or
FAT may also
refer to:
Fat (novel), by Rob
Grant Fat (cookbook)...
- "
Fat Man" (also
known as Mark III) was the
design of the
nuclear weapon the
United States used for
seven of the
first eight nuclear weapons ever detonated...
- File
Allocation Table (
FAT) is a file
system developed for
personal computers and was the
default file
system for the MS-DOS and
Windows 9x operating...
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Adipose tissue (also
known as body
fat or
simply fat) is a
loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. It also
contains the
stromal vascular...
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Fat transfer, also
known as
fat graft, lipomodelling, or
fat injections, is a
surgical process in
which a person's own
fat is
transferred from one area...
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Fat Boy,
fatboy or
fat boys may
refer to:
Fatboy Slim, an
English DJ and
musician The
Fat Boys, an
American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York James...
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Vegetable oils, or
vegetable fats, are oils
extracted from
seeds or from
other parts of
edible plants. Like
animal fats,
vegetable fats are
mixtures of triglycerides...
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Trans fat is a type of
unsaturated fat that
occurs in foods.
Small amounts of
trans fats occur naturally, but
large amounts are
found in some processed...
- A
saturated fat is a type of
fat in
which the
fatty acid
chains have all
single bonds between the
carbon atoms. A
fat known as a
glyceride is made of...
