| 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" |
| hale | | |
| n. (person) | 1. hale, nathan hale | a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776). |
| ~ american revolutionary leader | a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States. |
| n. (person) | 2. george ellery hale, hale | United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938). |
| ~ astronomer, uranologist, stargazer | a physicist who studies astronomy. |
| n. (person) | 3. edward everett hale, hale | prolific United States writer (1822-1909). |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| v. (social) | 4. coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze | to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :.; "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| ~ turn up the heat, turn up the pressure | apply great or increased pressure.; "The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election" |
| ~ drive | to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.; "She is driven by her passion" |
| ~ bludgeon | overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club.; "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas" |
| ~ steamroll, steamroller | bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure.; "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat" |
| ~ squeeze for | squeeze someone for money, information, etc.. |
| ~ dragoon, railroad, sandbag | compel by coercion, threats, or crude means.; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" |
| ~ terrorise, terrorize | coerce by violence or with threats. |
| ~ compel, obligate, oblige | force somebody to do something.; "We compel all students to fill out this form" |
| ~ bring oneself | cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative.; "He could not bring himself to call his parents" |
| v. (contact) | 5. cart, drag, hale, haul | draw slowly or heavily.; "haul stones"; "haul nets" |
| ~ draw, pull, force | cause to move by pulling.; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" |
| ~ bouse, bowse | haul with a tackle. |
| adj. | 6. hale, whole | exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again" |
| ~ healthy | having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease.; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" |
| robust | | |
| adj. | 1. robust | sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction.; "a robust body"; "a robust perennial" |
| ~ rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| ~ healthy | having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease.; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" |
| ~ beefy, buirdly, burly, husky, strapping | muscular and heavily built.; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" |
| ~ big-boned | having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh. |
| ~ big-chested, chesty | marked by a large or well-developed chest.; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed" |
| ~ big-shouldered, broad-shouldered, square-shouldered | having broad shoulders.; "big-shouldered and heavy-armed" |
| ~ cast-iron, iron | extremely robust.; "an iron constitution" |
| ~ hardy, stalwart, sturdy, stout | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" |
| ~ hardy | able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions.; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures" |
| ~ half-hardy | (of plants) requiring protection from frost.; "half-hardy annuals" |
| ~ heavy-armed | having massive arms.; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed" |
| ~ square-built | broad and solidly built. |
| ~ vigorous | strong and active physically or mentally.; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 2. full-bodied, racy, rich, robust | marked by richness and fullness of flavor.; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee" |
| ~ tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste.; "a tasty morsel" |
| adj. | 3. robust | strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity.; "the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 4. robust | rough and crude.; "a robust tale" |
| ~ unrefined | (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" |
| obese | | |
| adj. | 1. corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty | excessively fat.; "a weighty man" |
| ~ fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
| plump | | |
| n. (event) | 1. plump | the sound of a sudden heavy fall. |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| v. (motion) | 2. plummet, plump | drop sharply.; "The stock market plummeted" |
| ~ drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| v. (contact) | 3. flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down | set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" |
| ~ place down, put down, set down | cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place.; "set down your bags here" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. go, plump | give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.; "I plumped for the losing candidates" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| adj. | 5. chubby, embonpoint, plump | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure.; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump" |
| ~ fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
| adv. | 6. plump | straight down especially heavily or abruptly.; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| stout | | |
| n. (food) | 1. stout | a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops. |
| ~ ale | a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume. |
| ~ guinness | a kind of bitter stout. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. stout | a garment size for a large or heavy person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 3. stalwart, stout | dependable.; "the stalwart citizens at Lexington"; "a stalwart supporter of the UN"; "stout hearts" |
| ~ resolute | firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination.; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable faith" |
| adj. | 4. portly, stout | euphemisms for `fat'.; "men are portly and women are stout" |
| ~ fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
| adj. | 5. hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" |
| ~ robust | sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction.; "a robust body"; "a robust perennial" |
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