| 单词 | fat |
| 释义 | fat (once / 109 pages) 1nadjv 2adj 3adj A dangerous word, fat. It means large, or overweight, or — dare we say it? — even obese. If your brother has gotten fat, you might want to be tactful and call him "large-boned" instead. Fat can be applied not just to people or animals, but to any inanimate object that is notably big. Dictionaries, for example (remember the old-fashioned printed kind?), are inevitably described as "fat tomes," or an engagement ring can be fat if the rock is big enough. In its literal sense, fat simply means flesh, a form of body tissue, and in this sense it doesn't imply anything excessive. Just be careful using it to describe certain people. WORD FAMILYfat: fatedly, fatism, fatless, fatly, fatness, fats, fatted, fatten, fatter, fattest, fatting, fattish, fattism, fatty, nonfat+/fatten: fattened, fattening, fattens/fattened: unfattened/fattish: fattishly/fatty: fattier, fatties, fattiest, fattily, fattiness, fattys USAGE EXAMPLESThe problem with the argument that “government is fat” is that it’s a subjective argument. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The problem is not just the high fat content. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) And some people appear to be dealt a fat future at birth. New York Times(May 02, 2016) 1 1n a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) pizza has too much fat Hypo|Hyper edible fat oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue animal fatany fat obtained from animals cocoa buttera yellow-white fat from cocoa beans leaf fat, leaf lardfat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard medulla, myelin, myelinea white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers polyunsaturated fata class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol cracklingsthe crisp residue left after lard has been rendered lardsoft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog marblingthe intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat shorteningfat such as butter or lard used in baked goods suethard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep drippingsfat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried oil, vegetable oilany of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants bone fatfatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases butterfatthe fatty substance of milk from which butter is made lipid, lipide, lipoid an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) 2n a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs Syn|Hypo|Hyper adipose tissue, fatty tissue flab loose or flaccid body fat atheromaa fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow cellulitelumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. puppy fatfat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence mons, mons pubis, mons venerisa mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women belly, pauncha protruding abdomen love handle, spare tireexcess fat around the waistline bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummyslang for a paunch animal tissue the tissue in the bodies of animals 3n excess bodily weight Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper avoirdupois, blubber, fatness leanness, spareness, thinness the property of having little body fat adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness having the property of containing fat abdominousness, paunchinessthe bodily property of a protruding belly greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousnessconsisting of or covered with oil corpulency, fleshiness, obesitymore than average fatness steatopygiaan extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks adiposis, corpulence, overweight, stoutnessthe property of excessive fatness exogenous obesityobesity caused by overeating embonpoint, plumpness, roundnessthe bodily property of being well rounded bodily property an attribute of the body 4adj containing or composed of fat fat tissue Syn|Ant fatty adipose composed of animal fat butteryresembling or containing or spread with butter greasy, oily, oleaginous, sebaceouscontaining an unusual amount of grease or oil suetylike or full of suet superfatted(of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat fat-free, fatless, nonfat without fat or fat solids calorie-free, light, lite, low-calhaving relatively few calories skim, skimmedused of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed 5adj having an (over)abundance of flesh he hadn't remembered how fat she was Syn|Ant endomorphic, pyknic having a squat and fleshy build abdominous, paunchy, potbelliedhaving a large belly blubberyswollen with fat chubby, embonpoint, plumpsufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure buxom, zaftig, zoftig(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous corpulent, obese, rotund, weightyexcessively fat double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowledhaving sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubbyshort and plump fattishsomewhat fat fleshy, heavy, overweightusually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it gross, porcinerepellently fat portly, stouteuphemisms for `fat' roundedcurving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged thicknot thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions lean, thin lacking excess flesh ectomorphichaving a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs anorectic, anorexicsuffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedvery thin especially from disease or hunger or cold deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyedcharacteristic of the bony face of a cadaver gangling, gangly, lankytall and thin lank, spindlylong and lean rawbonedhaving a lean and bony physique reedlike, reedyresembling a reed in being upright and slender twiggy, twiglikethin as a twig scarecrowishresembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedybeing very thin shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizenedlean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness slender, slight, slim, sveltebeing of delicate or slender build slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waistedhaving a small waist spare, trimthin and fit spindle-legged, spindle-shankedhaving long slender legs stringy, wirylean and sinewy wisplike, wispythin and weak thinof relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section 6v make fat or plump 2Syn|Hyper fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation adj having a relatively large diameter 3a fat rope Syn thick not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions 1adj marked by great fruitfulness a fat land Syn fertile, productive, rich fruitful productive or conducive to producing in abundance 2adj lucrative a nice fat job Syn juicy profitable yielding material gain or profit |
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