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Definition: Fat |
FatAdjective1. Having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was". 2. Having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope". 3. Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue". 4. (informal) lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job". 5. Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil". 6. A chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks". Noun1. A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat". 2. 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". 3. Excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others". Verb1. Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | FAT File Allocation Table. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Fat (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12; Ps. 81:16; 147:47). The fat of sacrifices was to be burned (Lev. 3:9-11; 4:8; 7:3; 8:25; Num. 18:17. Comp. Ex. 29:13-22; Lev. 3:3-5). It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind (Ps 17:10). In Joel 2:24 the word is equivalent to "vat," a vessel. The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat" and "press-fat" (Hag. 2:16; Isa. 63:2). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are getting fat, denotes that you are about to make a fortunate change in your life. To see others fat, signifies prosperity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Fat All the fat is in the fire. The allusion is to the process of frying. If the grease is spilt into the fire, the coals smoke and blaze so as to spoil the food. The proverb signifies that something has been let out inadvertently which will cause a "regular flare up." The Fat: - Alfonzo II. of Portugal. (1212-1223.) Charles II. of France, le Gros. (832, 881-888.) Louis VI. of France, le Gros. (1078, 1108-1137.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Total lipids including phospholipids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (dagadt), Quebecois (épais). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | FAT. The last landed, inned, or stowed, of any sort of merchandise: so called by the water-side porters, carmen, &c. All the fat is in the fire; that is, it is all over with us: a saying used in case of any miscarriage or disappointment in an undertaking;. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the organic tissue, for FAT see File Allocation Table. In biochemistry, fat is a generic term for a class of lipids. Fats are produced by organic processes in animals and plants. All fats are insoluble in water and have a density significantly below that of water (i.e. they float on water.) Fats that are liquid at room temperature are often referred to as oil.
Chemical composition
Most fats are composed primarily of triglycerides; some monoglycerides and diglycerides are mixed in, produced by incomplete esterification. These are extracted and used as an ingredient.Products with a lot of saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature, while products containing unsaturated fats, which include monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats, tend to be liquid at room temperature.
Predominantly saturated fats (solid at room temperature) include all animal fats (e.g. milk fat, lard, tallow), as well as palm oil, coconut oil, cocoa fat and hydrogenated vegetable oil (shortening). All other vegetable fats, such as those coming from olive, peanut, maize (corn oil), cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, and soybean, are predominantly unsaturated and remain liquid at room temperature. However, both vegetable and animal fats contain saturated and unsaturated fats. Some oils (such as olive oil) contain in majority monounsaturated fats, while others present quite a high percentage of polyunsaturated fats (sunflower, rape).
Utilization
In the ancient Minoan culture, and in many of the other early Mediterranean cultures, olive oil was a very important commodity and at times used as a measure of wealth.Different varieties of fat has seen, and indeed still see, much use as lubricants, although recently various synthetic substances and petroleum derivatives has taken over in most industrial applications. In cooking, products with a high fat content are often used as enhancers of taste, for example butter, milk, cheese and other dairy products. Another use of fat in cooking is as heat conductor in frying.
Fats in nutrition
Fat is one of the three main classes of food and, at approximately 38 kJ (9 Cal) per gram, as compared to sugar with 17 kJ (4 Cal) per gram or ethanol with 29 kJ (7 Cal) per gram, the most concentrated form of metabolic energy available to humans. Vitamins A, D and E are fat soluable and occur only in conjunction with fats. Fats are sources of essential fatty acids, an important dietary requirement.They also serve as energy stores for the body. In food, there are two types of fats: saturated and unsaturated.
The biological imperative
All varieties of fat have an extraordinary energy content. In animals, fat acts as an energy reserve, and is stored in fatty tissue, normally located subcutaneously or surrounding organs. Fatty tissue consist of fat cellss, designed to store energy in the form of fat.Energy is stored as fatty tissue when the nutrition/energy content of the blood remains higher than is consumed by muscular and other activity. When the energy content in the blood lessens, the fatty tissue reacts by releasing a corresponding amount of energy from the fat cellss. This activity is controlled by insulin and other hormones in the body.
Fatty tissue
Fatty tissue is the human body's means of storing metabolic energy over extended periods of time.
In the modern world, excess fatty tissue on a human is often considered an aesthetic and medical problem. For a discussion of this, see dieting and obesity. In earlier times and other societies, fat was considered aesthetically pleasing. Rembrandt's and especially Peter Paul Rubens's paintings, giving us the term Rubenesque, to describe a large woman. Fat, depending on the age and culture, is considered at once a sign of wealth, power, prestige, gluttony, and sloth.
See also: Carbohydrate, protein, lipid, biodiesel, brown fat
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fat."
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File Allocation Table (FAT) is the main file system developed for MS-DOS and Windows. The FAT file system is considered relatively uncomplicated, and because of that it is popular format for floppy disks; moreover, it is supported by virtually all existing operating systems for the IBM PC, and because of that it's often used to share data between several operating systems booting on the same computer (a multiboot environment). It is also used on solid-state memory sticks and other similar devices.FAT is a relatively early file system design, and its designers did not exploit what was known about file system design, and because of that it suffered from several problems. First, its simple file layout allows for fragmentation, which leads to significant slowdowns during file system operations. Secondly, FAT was not designed for redundancy in the case of system failure. Thirdly, the first versions of FAT allowed file name sizes of only up to 11 characters (file name of 8 and a file extension of 3), although a work-around was developed when Microsoft implemented VFAT, that would allow file names of up to 255 characters. Finally, the large cluster size in many versions of FAT meant that a lot of space was being wasted on padding small files to the cluster size.
However, because IBM designated MS-DOS as its primary operating system for its PC, and MS-DOS used FAT, FAT became widely used and is still used in a number of circumstances. Because of its primitive design, it is easy to implement a basic FAT implementation, and because of the ubiquity of MS-DOS and Windows, FAT has become useful in providing a base level of interoperability in some circumstances.
FAT file system structure
A FAT file system on a partition consists of the following parts:In order to store long file names (LFN) on a FAT file system, Windows 95 and above use a trick - adding phoney file records into the directory tables. The records are marked with attributes that are impossible for a regular file and because of that they're ignored by most old MS-DOS programs that access FAT directly. Each phoney record can contain up to 13 UCS-2 characters (26 bytes), gaining about 15 bytes in addition to the old 8 + 3 by using fields in the record where normal records contain file size and cluster number.
- The partition boot record, consisting of one or several sectors in the beginning of the disk, which include some basic file system information (in particular, its type), and the operating system's boot loader code
- The File Allocation Table is a linked list that stores the logical order of the disk's clusters. Clusters are small blocks of contiguous and related space in the data area. Clusters are tied into chains that represent files. These chains are not necessarily stored adjacently on the disk's surface but are instead fragmented throughout the data area. Each file record, or inode, (discussed below) contains the location of the file's first cluster. Each entry in the FAT contains the location of the next logical cluster. The number of bits used to address the clusters determine the FAT size. Common FAT sizes are 12, 16 and 32 bits. The FAT actually exists as one or more (usually 2) identical copies, kept as redundancies to prevent accidental data loss.
- The root directory for the partition (which has a maximal size, written inside the boot record) contains records for files and subdirectories inside it. The records, or inodes, for each file include names, first disk cluster, creation dates, file attributes and so on.
- The data area is where file data and inodes are stored and takes up most of the partition. It is divided into small units of space called clusters. The size of files and subdirectories can be increased arbitrarily (as long as there are free clusters) by simply adding more links to the file's chain in the FAT. Note, however, that each cluster can be taken only by one file, and so if a 20-byte file resides in a 32,768-byte cluster, 32,748 bytes are wasted.
FAT history
FAT made its debut with the first version of MS-DOS in 1983. Initially it did not even support subdirectories. MS-DOS version 2 included support for them. Since both were intended for use mainly on floppy disks, in order to save on space, 12-bit cluster numbers were used, resulting in a maximum of 212 = 4,096 clusters. Clusters at that time were usually 512 bytes big, meaning the floppy could hold up to 2 megabytes - which was enough. File names were built according to the 8 + 3 pattern. This initial version of FAT became known as FAT12.However, since version 2, DOS also supported FAT with 16-bit cluster numbers, for the naturally larger hard disk drives. That way, there could be up to 216 = 65,536 clusters. Even with 512-byte clusters, this could give up to 32 megabytes - enough for XT hard drives, either 10 or 20 megabytes in size. This version of FAT is known simply as FAT, or FAT16 (in the newer documents).
As hard drives grew in size, however, 512-byte clusters were not enough, and bigger sizes were used. 65,536 8,192-byte clusters (512 megabytes) were sufficient for the 400 megabyte disks which were standard issue when Windows 95 was released. However, one of the user experience goals that the designers of Windows 95 wanted to achieve was the use of long file names in the new operating system. The long file names were implemented using a work-around in the way FAT tables are laid out (see above). The new version of the file system became known as VFAT (Virtual FAT), after the Windows 95 VxD (device driver) that's used by the operating system to work with it. VFAT is supported by Windows 95 and above and Windows NT 4.0 and above.
By 1997, the cluster growth possibility was exhausted. The maximum cluster size in Windows FAT was 32,768 bytes (Windows NT could create partitions with clusters of 65,536 bytes, which could be used by Windows 95, but this was wasteful when keeping small files in mind, and did not solve the broader issue). For the next release of Windows, Microsoft decided to implement a newer generation of FAT, which 32-bit cluster numbers (only 28 bits are currently used, giving a total of 228 = 268,435,456 clusters. In these conditions, cluster sizes could be lowered again to 4,096 bytes, giving the (so far) adequate figure of 1 terabyte for the whole file system. As a further bonus, lower cluster size meant space was utilized more efficiently. In addition, several changes were made to other filesystem structures. The new FAT version became known as FAT32. This version is supported in Windows 95 OSR 2 and above, and Windows 2000 and above.
The alternative IBM PC operating systems, for example OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, and BeOS, have all supported FAT, and most have gained support for VFAT and FAT32 shortly after the appropriate Windows versions were released. Early Linux distributions also supported a format known as UMSDOS, which was nothing more than FAT with the UNIX file properties (e.g. long file name and access permissions) stored in a separate file called --linux-.---. UMSDOS was mostly dropped after VFAT was released, although it still remains in the Linux kernel sources.
Since Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of the DOS line of succession with Windows ME, it remains unlikely that any new versions of FAT appear. For most purposes, the NTFS file system that was developed for the Windows NT line is superior to FAT from the points of view of efficiency, performance and reliability. However, FAT is likely to stay for a long time, both as the file system for the lower-end versions of Windows (currently, XP Personal), as well as the ideal file system for small drives, like the floppies.
FAT licensing
Although technical details of the FAT file system derive from CP/M and have been widely known and widely disseminated in the PC community for many years, and although the file system itself is widely considered to be obsolete, it should be noted that in 2003 Microsoft made a point of asserting intellectual property claims to the system. Citing patents, Microsoft claimed that licensing fees are required for its use in such applications as removable solid state media, and consumer devices using such media.This claim by Microsoft is controversial, for a number of reasons. Microsoft itself has admitted that it developed its first FAT file system in 1976, so no patents could apply to an implementation of the original version. Copyright law could not prevent a re-implementation of FAT either.
Microsoft has cited 4 patents, dating from 1995 on, for FAT. All of these patents relate to storing both long and short filenames in a single file system. A Slashdot discussion on December 4, 2003, analyzed these patents and participants (particularly Svartalf) reported the following:
In addition, there also seems to be prior art for at least the first, third, and forth patents in the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol standard for UNIX, which was an IEEE draft specification on at least July 13th, 1993. This protocol defined a method to support long and short names on the same media (as well as additional information) to support Unix systems.
- Patent 5,579,517 - Common name space for long and short filenames. Filed for on April 24, 1995. This appears to only impact someone using a Common Name Space for long and short filenames. This is the scheme Microsoft deployed for "Chicago" (the codename of Windows 95 while in development). This patent is likely to be invalidated (if challenged) by Microsoft's prior art release of Chicago to the world in December 1993.
- Patent 5,745,902 - Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats. Filed for on July 6, 1992. This patents allowing renaming of just the name and preserving the extension for the purposes of keeping track of the filetype. It is unclear that other implementors would need to implement this patent to implement a FAT system.
- Patent 5,758,352 - Common name space for long and short filenames. Filed on September 5, 1996. This is extremely similar to the 5,579,517 Patent; see those comments.
- Patent 6,286,013 - Method and system for providing a common name space for long and short file names in an operating system. Filed on January 28, 1997. This is a detailed description of how Windows 95/98/Me handles long filenames on an x86-32 platform. It is unclear this patent would apply to anything other than an exact clone of Windows 95/98/Me. This patent is likely to be invalidated (if challenged) by Microsoft's prior art release of Windows 95, two years before the filing date,
And of course, there is the simple question if this is really an innovative idea at all. Patents are supposed to be granted for new ideas; the notion of not removing short names, but adding long name information as well, is an option that is immediately obvious to any practitioner in the field.
In short, many have concluded that these patents only cover implementations that include support for long filenames, so it likely that removable solid state media and consumer devices only using short names would be unaffected. Also, there is good reason to believe the patents would be found invalid or unnecessary if challenged. In particular, many or all such patents are believed by many to be invalid because of previous public release, prior art, or because the technique would be obvious to a practioner.
Note that none of this appears to impact operating system or firmware implementations. In the document "Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT 32 File System Specification, FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format" by Microsoft (version 1.03, December 6, 2000), Microsoft specifically grants a number of rights, and many readers of that document have interpreted it as permitting operating system vendors to implement FAT.
See also: File system, Drive letter assignment, Software patent, as well as entries for competing file systems such as NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, and ReiserFS.
External link
- Microsoft' statement on "FAT File System Technology and Patent License"
- Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol
- Slashdot discussion on Microsoft's claims of FAT-related patents
- Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT 32 File System Specification, FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "File Allocation Table."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FAT | English | Face advance tilt | N/A |
FAT | French | Station fédérale de recherches en économie et technologie agricoles de Tänikon | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
FAT | German | Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Landtechnik Tänikon | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
FAT | Italian | Stazione federale di ricerche in economia e tecnologia agricola di Tänikon | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
FAT | Latin | RM:Institut federal da perscrutaziun per economia e tecnologia agrara a Tänikon | N/A |
| FAC | English | Fat Analysis Committee | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FatSynonyms: fatty (adj), fertile (adj), juicy (adj), productive (adj), rich (adj), rounded (adj), adipose tissue (n), avoirdupois (n), fatness (n), fatty tissue (n), fatten (v), fatten out (v), fatten up (v), fill out (v), flesh out (v), plump (v), plump out (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: fattest (medicine). |
| Antonyms: nonfat (adj), thin (adj), leanness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
Imbecility Folly | Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. |
Intemperance | Verb: be intemperate; Adjective: indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog; give a loose to indulgence; Noun: wallow in voluptuousness; Noun: plunge into dissipation. |
Oil | Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate |
Physical Pleasure | Live on the fat of the land, live in comfort. adVerb: bask in the sunshine, faire ses choux gras. |
Prosperity | Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes. |
Keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run of luck; have the good fortune; n. to; take a favorable turn; live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover. | |
Size | Large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon. |
Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced. | |
Sufficiency | Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock). |
Unctuousness | Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery. |
Violence | Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fat |
| English words defined with "fat": animal fat ♦ cohune fat ♦ fat cell, fat embolism ♦ leaf fat ♦ Soap fat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fat": Abdominal fat, added fat, AS FAT AS A HEN IN THE FOREHEAD ♦ Central fat distribution ♦ Drives fat Oxen ♦ Embolism, Fat, external fat ♦ Fat as a Porpoise, fat binary, fat client, FAT CULL, fat electrons, FAT HEADED, fat lime, Fat Men, fat obtained from waste, fat on the outside of the carcase, Fat Substitutes, Fecal Fat Test ♦ melted animal fat, Monounsaturated fat ♦ natural fat ♦ Saturated fat, subcutaneous fat ♦ Visceral fat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fat": Unguinous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (chance, circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fate, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lot, lottery, luck, mercy, portion, predetermine, share, spouse, weird), Dutch (dandy, dude, fop), Faeroese (course, dish, plate, platter), French (foppish, popinjay, smug person), Hawaiian (happiness), Latin (Swiss Federal Research Station for Agricultural Economics and Engineering of Tänikon), Norwegian (course, dish, keg, plate, platter), Swedish (barrel, barrelful, basin, cask, casque, course, dish, plate, platter, puncheon, saucer, Tun, vat, wood). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well aren't you just a big fat liar (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) I'm not just talking fat, I'm talkin' orca fat (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) You fat penguin (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and John Landis.) You made the fat kid a little nervous (American History X; writing credit: David McKenna) Stupid, fat hobbit (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | Fat man sitting on a little stool (TUNNEL OF LOVE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) With my pretty eyes, a cute nose and these fat ass lips (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) You would think that I would deserve a fat promotion ("9 to 5"; performing artist: Dolly Parton) And moss grows fat on a rolling stone (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) He used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) | |
Clever | Only the brave deserve the fair, but only rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford same. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) Fat people are harder to kidnap. (references; author: unknown) Can fat people go skinny-dipping? (references; author: unknown) Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever. (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine, 2. Fat, 3. Sugar, 4. Chocolate. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Fat frogs flying past fast. (references; author: unknown) The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat. (references; author: unknown) Try fat flat flounders. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fat Man on a Beach (1973) Oh Fat White Woman (1971) A Matter of Fat (1969) The Three Fat Women of Antibes (1969) Fat in the Saddle (1968) | |
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 | Shown are butter, margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and shortening against a black background. All these are high in fat. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Shows illustration of breast structure: rib, muscle, lobes, ducts, nipple, areola, fat. (8x10 negative). Credit: Susan Spangler (artist). |
 | Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of autopsy liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Hepatocytes are pale-staining due to intracellular fat droplets. Credit: CDC. |
 | Much of the kidney has been replaced by gray and yellow tumor tissue. A little remaining renal cortex and pericapsular fat are visible at the bottom of this surgical specimen. Cancer. Credit: CDC. |  | Large fat walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens - showing extent of blubber deposits. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Training for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival bicycle race on one of the backroads in the northern part of the Chequamegon National Forest, WI. Credit: USDA. |  | Technician Brooke Balsam prepares ground beef for fat analysis. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | It's not a nutty idea-pecans are good for you! They've not only got protein, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium; but even calcium! Okay, so they contain fat too, but 95 percent of it is unsaturated. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Fat troutSalmon Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Scott Feldhausen. |
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| "Fat cop" by Matty And Sharon Commentary: "Fat new york cop." | "Fat bird" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Fat bird." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dan Cook | The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. |
George Herbert | A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
Jackie Gleason | Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. |
James Thomson | A little, round, fat, oily man of God. |
John Heywood | The fat is in the fire. |
John Milton | Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. |
Plutarch | Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. |
Sir Richard Burton | They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. |
St. Jerome | A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. |
Walt Whitman | I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Pigs we eat, for they are fat. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Madame Magloire was a little, white, fat, jolly, bustling old woman, always out of breath, caused first by her activity, and then by the asthma |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He told us about them flaming fat devils of pigs |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | For hunger and fat. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Phospholipids -- molecules of fat in cell membranes. (references) | |
Avoid using the fat drippings from meat or poultry for gravy. (references) | ||
Go easy on fat, salt, sugar, alcohol, and smoked or pickled foods. (references) | ||
Business | The same criteria of CODEX has been adopted in order to indicate ‘zero’ contents of calorie, saturated fat and cholesterol. (references) | |
On April 29, 2000, KFDA announced expanded nutrient reference values of 32 nutrients including starch, fat, protein, dietary fiber, saturated fats, 13 vitamins and 13 minerals under ‘Nutrient Reference Values Regarding Nutritional Labeling of Food’. (references) | ||
Economic History | Italy | Finally, Italians are looking to the U.S. for a better understanding of organic and low fat foods. (references) |
Argentina | Over 80 percent of imports are of frozen boneless hams and shoulders, followed by pig fat and fresh boneless hams. (references) | |
Egypt | The Egyptian requirement that imported beef contain no more than 7% fat content still represents an important barrier to U.S. sales. (references) | |
Political Economy | EGYPT | For example, Egyptian Standard Number 1522 of 1991 concerning inspection of imported frozen meat set an unattainable maximum 7 percent content of fat. (references) |
Trade | India | There are only 4 prohibited goods: tallow fat, animal rennet, wild animals and unprocessed ivory. (references) |
Germany | Therefore, most processed products entering the EU are subject to additional import charges based on the percentage of sugar, milk fat, milk protein and starch in the product. (references) | |
Women | Jordan | However, one southern tribe of Egyptian origin in the small village of Rahmah near Aqaba reportedly practices FGM. One local Mufti issued a fatwa stating that FGM "safeguards women's chastity and protects them against malignant diseases by preventing fat excretions." However, the Mufti also stated that as FGM is not a requirement of Islam, women who do not undergo this procedure should not be embarrassed. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mexico | Most FAT members sympathize with the PRD, but the FAT is independent and not formally tied to the PRD. In 1997 160 labor organizations representing workers in the private and public sectors, led by the telephone workers and social security workers unions, formed the National Union of Workers (UNT)--a labor central in competition with the officially recognized CT. In 1999 the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) announced that it would withdraw from the CT over its failure to give full support to the SME's opposition to the Government's plan to privatize partially the electric power sector. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | I eat some meat, but not a lot. Today's meals are too fat. Lois and I, when we eat out almost invariably take home enough food to have lunch the next day. |
Dennis Miller | God bless fat America! |
Don Imus | Well, I can't explain it. I don't know what happened. I did a lot of drugs and drank vodka and got fat. Maybe I didn't weigh that much. |
Robert Atkins | Of course. Because everybody heard low fat, low fat, low fat, they had to eat more carbohydrates. That's what caused the epidemic. |
Rush Limbaugh | Right in the middle of the Big Tobacco assault, I predicted something that later actually started happening with regard to a fat tax on fast foods. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Fat" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.07% of the time. "Fat" is used about 2,387 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.07% | 1,577 | 5,239 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.81% | 807 | 8,635 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,387 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fat" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fat | Last name | 100 | 85,271 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fat". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ahlab | N/A | Biblical | Of fat |
| Argob | N/A | Biblical | Fat land |
| Gethsemane | N/A | Biblical | A very fat or plentiful vale |
| Libya | N/A | Biblical | Fat |
| Potiphar | N/A | Biblical | A fat bull |
| Potipherah | N/A | Biblical | The fat |
| Rebekah | N/A | Biblical | Fat |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Tem Fat Hing Fung (Holdings) Limited | Japan | Boso Oil & Fat Co., Ltd. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "fat": a fat chance ♦ a fat chance you have ♦ a fat lot ♦ a fat lot i care ♦ a fat lot of ♦ a fat lot of good ♦ a fat lot of good that was ♦ a fat lot of good that'll do you! ♦ a fat profit ♦ Abdominal fat ♦ accumulation of fat ♦ add fat ♦ added fat ♦ all the fat in the fire ♦ animal fat ♦ back fat ♦ bacon fat ♦ be fat ♦ be sandwiched between two fat men ♦ become fat ♦ being fat ♦ big fat fellow ♦ bone fat ♦ Brown Fat ♦ brown in fat ♦ Central fat distribution ♦ chew the fat ♦ class of fat cover(1:low ♦ cohune fat ♦ cooking fat ♦ cut up fat ♦ deep fat ♦ determination of fat ♦ Dry fat ♦ edible fat ♦ external fat ♦ Fat acid ♦ fat and flabby ♦ fat as a pig ♦ fat as a quail ♦ fat as bacon ♦ fat as brawn ♦ fat as butter ♦ fat binary ♦ Fat Body ♦ fat cat ♦ fat cell ♦ fat client ♦ fat content ♦ Fat deposits ♦ fat electrons ♦ fat embolism ♦ fat embolus ♦ fat gas ♦ fat hen ♦ fat herring ♦ fat job ♦ fat lime ♦ Fat lute ♦ fat man ♦ fat meat ♦ fat metabolism ♦ fat neck ♦ Fat Necrosis ♦ fat object ♦ fat obtained from waste ♦ fat of the land ♦ fat on soup ♦ fat on the outside of the carcase ♦ fat person ♦ fat pneumonia ♦ Fat series ♦ fat stock ♦ Fat Substitutes ♦ fat Tuesday ♦ fat up ♦ fat witted ♦ fat woman ♦ Fecal Fat Test ♦ get fat ♦ globule of fat ♦ grow fat ♦ grow fat stout ♦ growing fat ♦ layer of fat ♦ leaf fat ♦ live off the fat of the land ♦ live on the fat of the land ♦ low fat ♦ low fat level ♦ lump of fat ♦ make fat ♦ make look fat ♦ melted animal fat ♦ Monounsaturated fat ♦ mule fat ♦ natural fat ♦ now the fat is in the fire ♦ Otoba fat ♦ pig fat ♦ Polyunsaturated fat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fat": fat-a-lump, fat-arsed, fat-awareness, fat-barrelled, fat-bastard-with-a-beard-dead-in-the-bath, fat-bellied, fat-body, fat-bottom, Fat-brained, fat-burning, fat-cat, fat-cats, fat-cheeked, fat-coated, fat-containing, fat-dense, fat-faced, fat-finger, fat-frank, fat-free, fat-gain, fat-guts, fat-hatred, fat-head, fat-headed, fat-hen, Fat-kidneyed, fat-laden, fat-lipped, fat-loss, fat-melter, fat-packed, fat-producing, fat-reduced, fat-rich, fat-soaked, fat-soluble, fat-soluble vitamin, fat-solvents, fat-specific, fat-stock, fat-storing, fat-tailed, fat-tailed sheep, fat-thumbed, fat-tree, fat-type, fat-walleted, Fat-wited, Fat-witted, fat-wittedness, fat-wrapped. | |
Ending with "fat": deep-fat, full-fat, high-fat, lower-fat, low-fat. | |
Containing "fat": deep-fat-fried, deep-fat-fry, Lower-fat diet, low-fat diet, low-fat milk, non-fat milk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fat | 3,925 | fat albert | 649 |
fat joe | 2,675 | naked fat woman | 617 |
low fat recipe | 2,499 | fat porn | 611 |
fat girl | 2,163 | body fat calculator | 572 |
fat woman | 1,905 | fat loss | 535 |
fat pussy | 1,444 | my big fat greek wedding | 507 |
fat people | 1,385 | fat babe | 498 |
fat ass | 1,384 | fat boy | 482 |
picture of fat people | 1,247 | fat tit | 460 |
fat man | 1,222 | body fat percentage | 441 |
fat sex | 1,088 | fat joke | 432 |
fat burner | 1,058 | fat teen | 354 |
body fat | 924 | fat flush | 342 |
low fat diet | 886 | fat bastard | 308 |
aguilera christina fat | 853 | fat lady | 299 |
low fat | 813 | fat cat | 286 |
fat chick | 735 | fat lesbian | 284 |
fat slut | 679 | fat burn | 274 |
fat tgp | 677 | fat free recipe | 274 |
nude fat woman | 671 | low fat food | 273 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vetterig (fatty, greasy), vet (fatty, grease, greasy). (various references) | |
Albanian | yndyrë (grease, tallow), vaj (alas, bewailing, coronach, cry, dope, lachrymation, lament, lamentation, oil, seed oil, whine), trashësi (consistency, fatness, fleshiness, thickening), plotësi (amplitude, entirety, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, plenitude, plenum), pjesë më e mirë (pick), pjellor (fecund, fertile, fruitful, genital, loamy, mellow, pinguid, prolific, rich), kokëtrashë (blockhead, clod, daft, dense, dim witted, dunderhead, fathead, fat-witted, loggerhead, Looby, lubber-head, thick-head, thick-headed, thick-witted), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i majmë (adipose, creamy, hefty, lardy, pinguid), i bollshëm (affluent, ample, exuberant, flush, fulsome, generous, good, hearty, heavy, lavish, liberal, man-sized, over, plenteous, plenty, profuse, spacious), dhjamë (grease, hernia, render, rupture, tallow). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتلئ (filled, full of, replete, stout), مربح (advantageous, available, gainful, grist to the mill, lucrative, productive, profitable, remunerative), سمين (beefy, corpulent, fleshy, obese, plump, portly, puffy, pulpy, ripe, stout), سمن سمنة, زبدة (butter, choice, gist, quintessence, shortening, upshot), ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), صفوة (choice, cream, elite, flower, flowering, top), خصب (fecund, fertile, fertility, fruitful, lush, pregnant, prodigal, prodigality, productive, profuse, prolific, rich), أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ثري (moneyed, opulent, plushy, posh, privileged, prosperous, rich, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do), شحم (flab, grease, lard, lubricate, oil, palm), دهن (butter, grease, lipid, oil, paint, plaster, render, rub in, shortening, smear), بدانة (blubber, corpulence, fatness, fleshiness, obesity, portliness, rotundity, stoutness). (various references) | |
Basque | gizen. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мазнина (grease, richness), дебелина (avoirdupois, corpulence, fatness, girth, obesity, thickness, width), дебелея, доходен (bonanza, gainful, juicy, lucrative, payable, paying, plummy, profitable, remunerative), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy), плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, hearty, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank, rich), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), пълнота (amplitude, completeness, completion, corpulence, embonpoint, entirety, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, plenitude, plenum, portliness, pregnancy, rotundity, stoutness, thoroughness, volume, wholeness), благодарна роля, богат (abounding, bounteous, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), лой (cake ice, tallow), дебел (ample, corpulent, dense, obese, porky, puffy, pursy, stout, thick), мазен (fatty, greasy, mellow, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, rich, sleek, slimy, soapy, treacly, unctuous, yolky), угоявам (cram, fatten, feed up), масти, най-хубавата част от нещо, глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), грес (grease), тлъст (adipose, fatty, greasy, gross, pinguid, porky, puddingy, rank, rich, tallowy, unctuous), тлъст пай, тлъстина (adiposity, fatness), торя (compost, dress, dung, fertilize, manure, muck, nourish), сало (leaf-fat, tallow), смазка (grease, greasing, lube, lubricant, lubrication, lubricator, unguent), угоен (fattened, fatty, high fed, tallowy), заможен (fixed, forehanded, propertied, rich, warm, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do, well-fixed). (various references) | |
Catalan | gros (bold, corpulent, thick), gras (fatty, greasy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 肥胖 . (various references) | |
Czech | tlustý (chunky, fat and flabby, fatty, gross, large, overweight, rotund, stout, thick). (various references) | |
Danish | fedt (grease), fed (fatty, greasy), tyk (bold, corpulent, thick), lipid (lipid). (various references) | |
Dutch | vet (fatty, grease, greasy), dik (bold, concentrated, corpulent, dense, fatty, greasy, thick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | korpulenta (stout), graso (grease), grasa (fatty, greasy), dikventra, dika (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
Faeroese | feitur (fatty, greasy), tjúkkur (abdominous, concentrated, dense, stout, thick), hyldligur (abdominous, stout). (various references) | |
Farsi | فربه یاپرواری کردن , فربه (Corpulent, Hammy, Obese, Plump, Tubby), چاق (Chubby, Lob, Obese, Overweight, Pudgy, Replete, Tubby), چربی دارکردن , چربی دار (Sebaceous), چربی (Grease, Oil), چرب (Fatty, Greasy, Oily, Sebaceous, Unctuous). (various references) | |
Finnish | rasva (grease, lubricating grease), lihava (corpulent, stout). (various references) | |
French | gros (fat man), gras (fattish, fatty), graisse. (various references) | |
Frisian | fet (fatty, grease, greasy), tsjok (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
German | fett (adipose, bold, fatty, grease, greasy, heavily, heavy, lucrative, luxuriant, obese, porkily, porky, rich, shortening), dick (big, bold, bulky, close, corpulent, full, grossly, heavily, heavy, hefty, large, plump, stout, swollen, thick, thickly, turbid, turbidly), feist (fatty, greasy, gross, obese, plump). (various references) | |
Greek | πάχοσ (adiposeness, adiposity, embonpoint, pursiness, thickness), παχύσ (adipose, fatty, obese, plump, portly), παχύς (doughy, pasty), χόνδρος (cartilage, cartilages of the ala), χοντρός (gross), λιπαρός (greasy), λιπαρές ουσίες του γάλακτος, λίποσ (grease, slush, suet, tallow), λίπος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשד (juice, marrow, medulla, sap, vigour), שמן (adipose, buxom, corpulent, fatty, fertile, fleshy, greasy, oil, robust, stout, thick, unctuous), שומן (fatness, grease, lard), פדר (grease, suet), כשה (obese). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsír (dripping, fats, grease, lard), kövér (adipose, as fat as a pig, beefy, bold, corpulent, gross, have plenty of beef, loamy, lumping, overweight, plump, podgy, pudgy, puffy, thick), vastag (bold, coarse, corpulent, crass, dense, gross, monumental ignorance, podgy, stiff, thick, to be in the chips). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mondok (aquat, board), lemak, gurih (deliciously oily, piquant), gepuk (obese), gemuk (buxom, corpulent, fertiliser, grease, plumpy, rich, stout, thick). (various references) | |
Irish | ramhar (grease). (various references) | |
Italian | grosso (big, bold, bouncing, corpulent, great, gross, heavy, important, large, lumping, portly, thick, thickly), grasso (fatty, fleshy, grease, greasy, gross, obese, pursy, tubby). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脂肪 (blubber, grease), 油脂 (fats and oils), 太い (thick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | デブ (chubby), しぼうぶとり, しぼう (ambition, blubber, death, desire, grease, mortality, ovary, wish), ひまんした (corpulent, obese), ひだいした (enlarged), ぽってり (plump), ふとった (chubby, plump, stout), ふとい (thick), ふとりじし (chubby, corpulent), にくづきのよい (plump, well-fleshed, well-padded), あぶら (lard, oil, tallow), ゆし (explanation, fats and oils, instruction, official suggestion, oil paper, oiled paper, reasoning). (various references) | |
Korean | 파일 할당 테이블 (fats). (various references) | |
Manx | sahll (adipose tissue, grease, saim, white flesh), roauyrey, roauyr (bulky, buxom, corpulent, firm, fleshy, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, sleek, stiff, stout, thick), riurey (fatter), mea (luxuriant, rich, thick), maa (baa, greasy, greasy as slug, luxuriant; bleat), keish (fat pig, obese, porky), geirr (dripping, suet, tallow), eeh, blennick (fatty tissue, lard). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tykk (bold, corpulent, gross, thick), fett (grease). (various references) | |
Occitan | gròs. (various references) | |
Papiamen | vèt (fatty, grease, greasy), sebu (grease), gordo (bold, corpulent, thick), diki (bold, corpulent, thick, thickness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atfay.(various references) | |
Polish | gruby (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
Portuguese | gordo (bold, chubby, chuffy, corpulent, dumpy, gross, loamy, obese, overweight, porky, purse, pursy, squabby, thick), gordura (blubber, embonpoint, grape, grease, lard, obesity, rotundity, shortening). (various references) | |
Romanian | gras (beefy, corpulent, fatty, greasy, handsomely, oily, porky, puffy, pursy, rich, rotund, sticky, stout, unctuous, well fed). (various references) | |
Russian | смазка (grease, greasing, lubricant, lubrication), сало (axunge, cake ice, grease, lard, suint, tallow), тучный (corpulent, obese, purse), тучность (adiposity, avoirdupois, corpulence, obesity, portliness), толстый (abdominous, fleshy, gross, paunchy, porky, stout, stubby, thick, well-fed), выгодный (advantageous, expedient, fruitful, gainful, lucrative, paying, profitable, remunerative), навар, жирный (adipose, bloated, corpulent, fatty, lardy, obese, oily, pinguid, porky, rank, tallowy, thick), жир жирный, жир (grease, lard, shortener, shortening, stuff, tallow), полнота (amplitude, completeness, comprehensiveness, embonpoint, entirety, exhaustiveness, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, obesity, plenum, portliness, rotundity, stoutness), доходный (commercial, gainful, lucrative, moneymaking, payable). (various references) | |
Scottish | sult (comeliness, fatness, fertility, mirth), saill (blubber, cure, fat or fatness, fatness, pickle, salt thou, season), reamhar (gross, plump, thick), mèith (as soil, corpulent; rich, greasy), blonag (lard, suet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unosan (gainful, lucrative, paying, profitable, remunerative), mazivo (dope, grease, lubricant, train oil), mastan (fatty, greasy, oleaginous, racy, rich, risque, scabrous, sebaceous, unctuous), mast (grease, lard, ointment, unguent), masan (adipose), loj (suet, tallow), gojazan (obese), debeo (beefy, full, gross, large, obese, plump, porky, thick, tubby). (various references) | |
Spanish | gordo (corpulent, fatso, fatty, fleshy, greasy, plump, porky, portly, rotund, stout, thick, top), grueso (bold, coarse, corpulent, fatty, full, greasy, gross, heavy, hulking, thick, thickness), grasa (grease). (various references) | |
Sranan | fatu (bold, corpulent, grease, thick), deki (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
Swahili | -nono (bold, corpulent, thick), nono (bold, corpulent, thick), -nene (bold, corpulent, thick), nene (bold, corpulent, thick), grisi (grease). (various references) | |
Swedish | fet (adipose, bold, corpulent, fatty, fleshly, fleshy, full-fed, greasy, lardy, obese, oily, pinguid, rich, thick), tjock (bold, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dense, fleshly, fleshy, thick), fett (dripping, grease, lard, lubricant, oil, shortening). (various references) | |
Tagalog | makapál (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
Thai | ใหญ่ (big, large), เป็นไข, ไขมัน, อ้วน (fatten, fleshy, pyknic), มั่งคั่ง (opulent, richly). (various references) | |
Turkish | kazançlı (beneficial, fruitful, gainful, lucrative, paying, productive, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, yielding), şişko (fatso, fatty, gross, obese, porky, roly poly), şişman (corpulent, elephantine, fatty, fleshy, in flesh, obese, overweight, portly, stout), şişmanlatmak (fat up, fatten, plump, plump out), bereketli (abundant, copious, exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rank, rich), besili (fattened, sleek, well fed), besiye çekmek (fatten, feed up, tallow), dolgun (buxom, chubby, goodly, lined, plump, sonorous, succulent, well-rounded), şişkin (bagging, bulging, gross, puffed up, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgescent), kârlı (advantageous, beneficial, commercial, gainful, juicy, lucrative, payable, paying, productive, profitable, profit-bringing, rewarding), yağlı (adipose, fatty, greasy, oiled, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), kilolu (fleshy, overweight), semirtmek (cram, fat up, fatten, feed up, make fat, plump, plump out, tallow), semiz (fleshy, in flesh, in grease of pride, in grease of prime, porky, well fed), tombul (chubby, elephantine, fatty, fleshy, plump, porky, pudgy, roly poly, rotund, roundabout, sonsy, well-rounded), verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, grateful, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, yielding), yağ (adipose, grease, oil, slush, tallow), yağ bağlatmak (fat up, tallow), içyağı (grease, suet). (various references) | |
Turkmen | semiz (plump). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урожайний (plenteous), сало (axunge, creesh, tallow), товстий (abdominous, corpulent, fubsy, lumpish, obese, podgy, porky, portly, pudgy, rotund, sizable, sizeable, thick), жирний (adipose, bacony, beefy, bloated, creamy, fatty, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, smeary, yolky), жир (creesh, lard, tallow), повнота (completeness, entire, fatness, fattiness, fullness, fulness, plenitude, plumpness, rotundity, roundness, thoroughness, wholeness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tốt béo bở, rất ít, mập (cobby, pursy), mũm mĩm béo, cóc khô, có lãi đầy áp chậm chạp, có lợi (advantageous, furthersome, gainful, lucrative, profitable, remunerative), có dầu, béo phì. (various references) | |
Welsh | tirf (fresh, luxuriant), tew (plump, thick), pasgedig (fatted, fattened), bwr (big, strong), brasterog (greasy), braster, bras (broad, coarse, luxuriant, rich). (various references) | |
Yucatec | polok (bold, corpulent, thick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. i, i-udu, kuru. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | aleipha, lipos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adeps, adipe, adipem, adipemque, adipes, adipibus, adipum, altilia, altilium, arvinam, arvinulis, corpulentiores, corpulentus, crassus, obesis, pingue, pinguedine, pinguedinem, pinguedinis, pinguem, pingues, pingui, pinguia, pinguibus, pinguidine, pinguis, pinguissima, pinguissimae, pinguissimo, pinguissimum, pinguissimus, pinguium, RM:Institut federal da perscrutaziun per economia e tecnologia agrara a Tänikon. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | corpulent. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai enegkanteV ton moscon ton siteuton qusate kai fagonteV eufranqwmen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et adducite vitulum saginatum et occidite et manducemus et epulemur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And bringað an fætt styric and ofsleað and utun etan and gewistfullian: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And schoon on hise feet; and brynge ye a fat calf, and sle ye, and ete we, and make we feeste. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And bringe hidder that fatted caulfe and kyll him and let vs eate and be mery: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | ug dad-a dinhi ang nating baka nga gipatambok ug ihawa kini, ug mangaon kita ug managsadya; |
| Chinese | 把 那 肥 牛 犢 牽 來 宰 了 、 我 們 可 以 喫 喝 快 樂 ． |
| Croatian | Tele ugojeno dovedite i zakoljite, pa da se pogostimo i proveselimo |
| Danish | og henter Fedekalven og slagter den, og lader os spise og være lystige! |
| Dutch | En brengt het gemeste kalf, en slacht het; en laat ons eten en vrolijk zijn. |
| Finnish | ja noutakaa syötetty vasikka ja teurastakaa. Ja syökäämme ja pitäkäämme iloa, |
| French | Amenez le veau gras, et tuez-le. Mangeons et réjouissons-nous; |
| German | und bringet ein gemästet Kalb her und schlachtet's; lasset uns essen und fröhlich sein! |
| Haitian Creole | Al chache jenn ti towo nou t'ap angrese a, touye l'. Ann fete, ann manje. |
| Hungarian | És elõhozván a hízott tulkot, vágjátok le, és együnk és vígadjunk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah itu ambillah anak sapi yang gemuk dan sembelihlah. Kita akan makan dan bersukaria. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan bawalah anak lembu yang tambun, sembelihkan, biar kita makan dan bersukaria, |
| Italian | Portate il vitello grasso, ammazzatelo, mangiamo e facciamo festa, |
| Latvian | Un atvediet nobarotu teïu un nokaujiet to, un çdîsim un priecâsimies, |
| Maori | Kawea mai ano te kuao kau, te mea whangai, patua; kia kai tatou, kia koa te ngakau; |
| Norwegian | og hent gjøkalven og slakt den, og la oss ete og være glade! |
| Portuguese | trazei também o bezerro, cevado e matai-o; comamos, e regozijemo-nos, |
| Rumanian | Aduceyi viyelul cel kngrqwat, wi tqiayi -l. Sq mkncqm wi sq ne veselim; |
| Russian | Й РТЙЧЕДЙФЕ ПФЛПТНМЕООПЗП ФЕМЕОЛБ, Й ЪБЛПМЙФЕ; УФБОЕН ЕУФШ Й ЧЕУЕМЙФШУС! |
| Shuar | Túrarum waaka nueram ana nu maatarum. Námper Nájankur shiir Enentáimsar Yurumámi. |
| Spanish | Traed el ternero engordado y matadlo. Comamos y regocijémonos, |
| Swahili | Mchinjeni ndama mnono; tule kusherehekea! |
| Swedish | Och hämten den gödda kalven och slakten den, så vilja vi äta och gör oss glada. |
| Uma | Oti toe, hilou-koi mpohoko' ana' japi to morudu' pai' nisumale'. Ngkoni' -ta goe' -goe'! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fat": fatal, fatalism, fatalisms, fatalist, fatalistic, fatalistically, fatalists, fatalities, fatality, fatally, fatback, fatbacks, fatbird, fatbirds, fate, fated, fateful, fatefully, fatefulness, fatefulnesses, fates, fathead, fatheaded, fatheadedly, fatheadedness, fatheadednesses, fatheads, father, fathered, fatherhood, fatherhoods, fathering, fatherland, fatherlands, fatherless, fatherlike, fatherliness, fatherlinesses, fatherly, fathers, fathom, fathomable, fathomed, fathoming, fathomless, fathomlessly, fathomlessness, fathomlessnesses, fathoms, fatidic, fatidical. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fat": antifat, butterfat, defat, marrowfat, nonfat, overfat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fat": antifatigue, bisulfate, bisulfates, butterfats, califate, califates, defats, defatted, defatting, forefather, forefathers, godfather, godfathered, godfathering, godfathers, grandfather, grandfathered, grandfathering, grandfatherly, grandfathers, housefather, housefathers, indefatigabilities, indefatigability, indefatigable, indefatigableness, indefatigablenesses, indefatigably, infatuate, infatuated, infatuates, infatuating, infatuation, infatuations, kalifate, kalifates, marrowfats, nonfatal, nonfattening, nonfatty, overfatigue, overfatigued, overfatigues, prefatory, solfatara, solfataras, stepfather, stepfathers, sulfatase, sulfatases, sulfate. (additional references) | |
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"Fat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afg, afsat, afta, aftc, aftg, Aftm, afto, afv, att, efato, faa, faak, faav, faaw, fabt, fach, faf, fah, fai, faj, fak, fakt, Fakty, falt, fam, famt, fant, fanth, fata, fath, Fati, Fatma, fato, fatt, fatto, faty, fatz, fau, faut, fav, faw, faz, fca, fegt, feth, fett, fext, ffet, ffit, ffot, fft, Fga, fha, fiti, fito, fitu, Fma, foat, fot, fott, foyt, fpt, frato, fratt, fsa, fta, Ftaf, ftan, Ftao, ftd, ftx, fuath, fut, Fwa, hfta, ifat, ifut, kfa, lfat, nfha, ofat, tfta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fat" (pronounced fa"t) |
| 3 | f a" t | nonfat. |
| 2 | -a" t | at, bat, batt, begat, brat, cat, chat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, mat, Matt, matte, Pat, rat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, stat, Tat, that, vat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aft. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-t" | |
-1 letter: at, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-t" | |
+1 letter: daft, fact, fast, fate, fats, feat, feta, fiat, flat, frat, haft, raft, tufa, waft. | |
+2 letters: abaft, afoot, afrit, after, aloft, craft, defat, draft, facet, facts, fagot, faint, faith, fasts, fatal, fated, fates, fatly, fatso, fatty, fatwa, fault, feast, feats, fetal, fetas, fiats, flats, float, flota, frats, graft, hafts, kraft, rafts, shaft, softa, staff, taffy, tafia, tufas, wafts. | |
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