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- eat human flesh
- use parts of something to repair something else
- (transitive, business) To reduce sales or market share (for one of one's own products) by introducing another.
- (transitive) To remove parts of (a machine, etc) for use in other similar machines.
- (transitive) To eat (parts of) another of one's own species.
- Rework old material; rehash.
adj
- lacking excess flesh
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- lacking excess flesh
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
noun
adj
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- lucrative
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
noun
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (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.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
verb
noun
- The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat.
- The transformation of something into a human being.
- Carnal (sexual) activity.
- (medicine, botany) A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.
- The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).
- (medicine) A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.
noun
- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
noun
- any animal that feeds on flesh
- a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
- (informal) A follower of the carnivore diet.
- (zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
- An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
- (informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.
noun
- highly valued almost pure white flesh
- popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
- important American food fish in the winter
- flesh of American flounder; important in the winter
- European flatfish highly valued as food
- small European sole
- A European flatfish of the species Microstomus kitt (not a true sole).
noun
- the flesh of fish used as food
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
- (countable) A mammal of the family Felidae.
- (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
- (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
- (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
- A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1 sense 1.1.1).
- Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar
- a whip with nine knotted cords
- a spiteful woman gossip
- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
- an informal term for a youth or man
- a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
adj
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
noun
- The marbling in meat.
- (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble.
- (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
- (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
- a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
- a sculpture carved from marble
- a small ball of glass that is used in various games
adj
verb
- (by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
- (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
- (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
- (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
- (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
- paint or stain like marble
adj
adj
noun
- a person who eats human flesh
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
- (by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
- A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
- An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
adv
adj
noun
adj
noun
- The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat.
- The transformation of something into a human being.
- Carnal (sexual) activity.
- (medicine, botany) A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.
- The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).
- (medicine) A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.
noun
- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
noun
- any animal that feeds on flesh
- a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
- (informal) A follower of the carnivore diet.
- (zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
- An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
- (informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.
noun
- highly valued almost pure white flesh
- popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
- important American food fish in the winter
- flesh of American flounder; important in the winter
- European flatfish highly valued as food
- small European sole
- A European flatfish of the species Microstomus kitt (not a true sole).
noun
- the flesh of fish used as food
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The flesh of this animal eaten as food.
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography; often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
- (countable) A mammal of the family Felidae.
- (chiefly nautical) Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- (US, slang) Synonym of itinerant worker.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- A double tripod for holding a plate, etc., with six feet, of which three rest on the ground in whatever position it is placed.
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- (derogatory, offensive) An angry or spiteful person, especially a woman.
- (military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.
- (originally US, jazz, slang) A jazz musician; also, an enthusiast of jazz music.
- A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- (countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (etymology 1 sense 1.1.1).
- Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar
- a whip with nine knotted cords
- a spiteful woman gossip
- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
- an informal term for a youth or man
- a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
adj
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To go wandering at night.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
- beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
noun
- The marbling in meat.
- (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble.
- (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.
- (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.
- a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
- a sculpture carved from marble
- a small ball of glass that is used in various games
adj
verb
- (by extension, figurative) To lace or be laced throughout.
- (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
- (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.
- (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
- (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
- paint or stain like marble
noun
- a person who eats human flesh
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
- (by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
- A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
- An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
noun
adj
verb
- eat human flesh
- use parts of something to repair something else
- (transitive, business) To reduce sales or market share (for one of one's own products) by introducing another.
- (transitive) To remove parts of (a machine, etc) for use in other similar machines.
- (transitive) To eat (parts of) another of one's own species.
- Rework old material; rehash.
adv
adj
adj
adj
- lacking excess flesh
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- lacking excess flesh
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
noun
adj
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- lucrative
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
noun
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (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.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)