Usually means: Stored energy, insulation, hormone production.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. fat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fat, fat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. FAT, fat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fat, fat, fat: Wordnik
  7. fat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FAT, fat: Wiktionary
  9. fat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FAT, the fat: Dictionary.com
  13. fat (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FAT (8-bit), FAT (gene), FAT (reserved sectors), FAT (torpedo), FAT, Fat (EP), Fat (cookbook), Fat (disambiguation), Fat (novel), Fat (song), Fat, The Fat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fat: Rhymezone
  19. fat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fat: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. FAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Fat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. fat: Free Dictionary
  25. fat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. FAT: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. fat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. fat: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. fat: Cook's Thesaurus
  5. fat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  6. FAT: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FAT: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Fat (disambiguation), Fat (nutrition), fat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fat: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Fat (body), Fat: Merck Manuals
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Fat: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  10. Fat (disambiguation), Fat (nutrition), fat: Medical dictionary
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Fat: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FAT: Acronym Finder
  3. FAT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. fat: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fat: Easton Bible
  2. Fat, Fat: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. FAT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fat: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fat: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  4. FAT: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fat, fat, fat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.A.T, F.A.T, FAT(s), FAT, F.a.T, Fat, fat(verb): Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fat: Body Building
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Fat: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
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  5. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
adjective:  Thick; large.
adjective:  Bulbous; rotund.
adjective:  Bountiful.
adjective:  Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
adjective:  (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
adjective:  Fertile; productive.
adjective:  Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
adjective:  Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
adjective:  (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
adjective:  (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
adjective:  (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
adjective:  (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
adjective:  (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
noun:  (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
noun:  Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
noun:  (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
noun:  That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
noun:  (slang) An erection.
noun:  (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
noun:  The best or richest productions; the best part.
noun:  (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
noun:  A beef cattle fattened for sale.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
noun:  (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
noun:  (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
noun:  Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.
noun:  (often specifically) FAT16 or FAT16B.
noun:  (sometimes specifically) FAT12.
noun:  (specifically, Microsoft Windows) FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.
noun:  (genetics, biochemistry) Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation.
adjective:  Alternative form of phat [(slang, originally African-American Vernacular) Excellent; cool; very good.]
noun:  (computing) Acronym of File Allocation Table or file allocation table.
noun:  (countable, property law, England and Wales) Initialism of full agricultural tenancy. [(property law, England and Wales) An agricultural tenancy agreed before 1 September 1995, to which the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 applies.]

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