Lipid vs Blubber - What's the difference?
lipid | blubber |
(organic compound) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body. They are, however, soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.
A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis.
Fatty tissue.
The thick coat of fat worn by many arctic animals, such as sea lions, and antarctic animals, such as penguins; used to insulate warmth in the animal's body.
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, title= (obsolete) A bubble.
* Henryson
To make noises or broken words while crying.
* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
* Prior
As nouns the difference between lipid and blubber
is that lipid is lipid while blubber is a fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis.As a verb blubber is
to make noises or broken words while crying.lipid
English
(wikipedia lipid)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* biolipid * geolipid * nonlipidblubber
English
Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- At his mouth a blubber stood of foam.
Synonyms
* (fatty tissue) adipose tissueVerb
(en verb)- She wept, she blubbered , and she tore her hair.
- Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face!