fat

IPA(Pronunciation)

/fæt/

Noun

uncountable usually countable slang dated derogatory informal

(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. / Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.

Japanese Meaning

動物の高脂質な組織で、エネルギーを長期間蓄えるために特化したもの、すなわち脂肪組織 / 肉の脂肪部分、または肉の切り落とし部分に含まれる脂肪

What is this buttons?

Researchers collected fat from the seal to study its energy storage adaptations.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究者たちはそのアザラシから脂肪組織を採取して、エネルギー貯蔵の適応を研究した。

Details

Sense（1）

(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.

Sense（2）

Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.

Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.

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Details

Sense（3）

(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.

Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.

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