| cooking oil | | |
| n. (food) | 1. cooking oil | any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking. |
| ~ vegetable oil, oil | any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. |
| fat | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. fat | a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides).; "pizza has too much fat" |
| ~ adipose cell, fat cell | cells composed of fat. |
| ~ edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. |
| ~ animal fat | any fat obtained from animals.; "animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids" |
| ~ cocoa butter | a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans. |
| ~ leaf fat, leaf lard | fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard. |
| ~ acylglycerol, glyceride | an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils.; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid" |
| ~ triglyceride | glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body. |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ medulla, myelin, myeline | a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers. |
| ~ polyunsaturated fat | a 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. |
| n. (body) | 2. adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue | a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs.; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" |
| ~ animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals. |
| ~ flab | loose or flaccid body fat. |
| ~ atheroma | a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow. |
| ~ cellulite | lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc.. |
| ~ puppy fat | fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence. |
| ~ mons, mons pubis, mons veneris | a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women. |
| ~ paunch, belly | a protruding abdomen. |
| ~ love handle, spare tire | excess fat around the waistline. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness | excess bodily weight.; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" |
| ~ bodily property | an attribute of the body. |
| ~ adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness | having the property of containing fat.; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" |
| ~ abdominousness, paunchiness | the bodily property of a protruding belly. |
| ~ greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness | consisting of or covered with oil. |
| ~ corpulency, fleshiness, obesity | more than average fatness. |
| ~ steatopygia | an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks. |
| v. (consumption) | 4. fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | make fat or plump.; "We will plump out that poor starving child" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| adj. | 5. fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
| ~ endomorphic, pyknic | having a squat and fleshy build.; "a pyknic practical joke" |
| ~ abdominous, paunchy, potbellied | having a large belly. |
| ~ blubbery | swollen with fat.; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual" |
| ~ chubby, embonpoint, plump | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure.; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump" |
| ~ zaftig, zoftig, buxom | (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous.; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular" |
| ~ corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty | excessively fat.; "a weighty man" |
| ~ double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled | having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw. |
| ~ podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby, dumpy | short and plump. |
| ~ fattish | somewhat fat. |
| ~ fleshy, overweight, heavy | usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. |
| ~ porcine, gross | repellently fat.; "a bald porcine old man" |
| ~ portly, stout | euphemisms for `fat'.; "men are portly and women are stout" |
| ~ rounded | curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged.; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" |
| ~ 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.; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" |
| adj. | 6. fat | having a relatively large diameter.; "a fat rope" |
| ~ 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.; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" |
| adj. | 7. fat, fatty | containing or composed of fat.; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" |
| ~ adipose | composed of animal fat.; "adipose tissue constitutes the fat of meat" |
| ~ buttery | resembling or containing or spread with butter.; "a rich buttery cake" |
| ~ greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous | containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" |
| ~ suety | like or full of suet.; "suety lamb chops" |
| ~ superfatted | (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat.; "superfatted toilet soaps" |
| adj. | 8. fat, juicy | lucrative.; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ profitable | yielding material gain or profit.; "profitable speculation on the stock market" |
| adj. | 9. fat, fertile, productive, rich | marked by great fruitfulness.; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" |
| ~ fruitful | productive or conducive to producing in abundance.; "be fruitful and multiply" |
| lard | | |
| n. (food) | 1. lard | soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog. |
| ~ pig, grunter, squealer, sus scrofa, hog | domestic swine. |
| ~ edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. |
| v. (creation) | 2. lard | prepare or cook with lard.; "lard meat" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ ready, cook, prepare, fix, make | prepare for eating by applying heat.; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" |
| v. (communication) | 3. aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad | add details to. |
| ~ glorify | cause to seem more splendid.; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building" |
| ~ exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw | to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" |
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