ALL meanings of fat
fat
F f - abbreviation Technical meaning of FAT File Allocation Table 3
- adjective fat having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person. 1
- adjective fat plump; well-fed: a good, fat chicken. 1
- adjective fat consisting of or containing fat; greasy; oily: fat gravy; fat meat. 1
- adjective fat profitable, as an office: a fat job on the city commission. 1
- adjective fat affording good opportunities, especially for gain: a fat business contract. 1
- adjective fat wealthy; prosperous; rich: He grew fat on dishonest profits. 1
- adjective fat big, broad, or extended; thick: a fat sheaf of bills. 1
- adjective fat plentiful; abundant: a fat supply of food. 1
- adjective fat plentifully supplied: a fat larder; a fat feast. 1
- adjective fat dull; stupid: fat clumsiness of manner. 1
- adjective fat abounding in a particular element: Fat pine is rich in resin. 1
- adjective fat (of paint) having more oil than pigment. Compare lean2 (def 6). 1
- adjective fat (of coal) highly bituminous; rich in volatile hydrocarbons. 1
- adjective fat Ceramics. long1 (def 25). 1
- adjective fat fertile, as land: Everything grows in this fat soil. 1
- noun fat any of several white or yellowish greasy substances, forming the chief part of adipose tissue of animals and also occurring in plants, that when pure are colorless, odorless, and tasteless and are either solid or liquid esters of glycerol with fatty acids; fats are insoluble in water or cold alcohol but soluble in ether, chloroform, or benzene: used in the manufacture of soap, paints, and other protective coatings and in cooking. 1
- noun fat animal tissue containing much of this substance; loose flesh; flabbiness: to have rolls of fat around one's waist. 1
- noun fat the richest or best part of anything. 1
- noun fat obesity; corpulence: In his later years, he inclined to fat. 1
- noun fat Slang. especially profitable or advantageous work. 1
- noun fat an overabundance or excess; superfluity. 1
- noun fat action or lines in a dramatic part that permit an actor to display abilities. 1
- noun fat Also, phat. Also called lift. Typesetting. matter that can be composed easily and profitably, especially from standing type, illustrations, or the like: fat work. Compare lean2 (def 11). 1
- idioms fat a fat chance, Slang. a very slight chance; small probability: A fat chance he has of winning the title! 1
- idioms fat a fat lot, Slang. little or not at all: A fat lot they care about anyone else's troubles! 1
- idioms fat chew the fat. chew (def 11). 1
- idioms fat the fat is in the fire, an irrevocable action or chain of events has been started; the die is cast: Now that they have been given an ultimatum, the fat is in the fire. the decision, whether good or bad, has been made. the crisis is imminent. 1
- idioms fat the fat of the land, the best or richest of anything obtainable: to live on the fat of the land. 1
- noun fat bodily substance 1
- noun fat oily substance in food 1
- noun fat component of food 1
- adjective fat person: overweight 1
- adjective fat large 1
- adjective fat thick 1
- adjective fat lucrative 1
- adjective fat greasy 1
- abbreviation FAT fertile 1
- adjective fat swollen 1
- intransitive verb fat become fat 1
- transitive verb fat make fat 1
- noun Definition of fat in Technology (file system) (FAT) The component of an MS-DOS or Windows 95 file system which describes the files, directories, and free space on a hard disk or floppy disk. A disk is divided into partitions. Under the FAT file system each partition is divided into clusters, each of which can be one or more sectors, depending on the size of the partition. Each cluster is either allocated to a file or directory or it is free (unused). A directory lists the name, size, modification time and starting cluster of each file or subdirectory it contains. At the start of the partition is a table (the FAT) with one entry for each cluster. Each entry gives the number of the next cluster in the same file or a special value for "not allocated" or a special value for "this is the last cluster in the chain". The first few clusters after the FAT contain the root directory. The FAT file system was originally created for the CP/M[?] operating system where files were catalogued using 8-bit addressing. MS DOS's FAT allows only 8.3 filenames. With the introduction of MS-DOS 4 an incompatible 16-bit FAT (FAT16) with 32-kilobyte clusters was introduced that allowed partitions of up to 2 gigabytes. Microsoft later created FAT32 to support partitions larger than two gigabytes and pathnames greater that 256 characters. It also allows more efficient use of disk space since clusters are four kilobytes rather than 32 kilobytes. FAT32 was first available in OEM Service Release 2 of Windows 95 in 1996. It is not fully backward compatible with the 16-bit and 8-bit FATs. Compare: NTFS. 1
- noun fat A natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs. 1
- adjective fat If you say that a person or animal is fat, you mean that they have a lot of flesh on their body and that they weigh too much. You usually use the word fat when you think that this is a bad thing. 0
- uncountable noun fat Fat is the extra flesh that animals and humans have under their skin, which is used to store energy and to help keep them warm. 0
- noun fat (Uncountable Noun) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. 0
- variable noun fat Fat is a solid or liquid substance obtained from animals or vegetables, which is used in cooking. 0
- noun fat (Countable Noun) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat. 0
- variable noun fat Fat is a substance contained in foods such as meat, cheese, and butter which forms an energy store in your body. 0
- noun fat That part of an organization deemed wasteful. 0