Fat vs Hole - What's the difference?

fat | hole |

As a noun fat

is .

As a proper noun hole is

a municipality in buskerud, norway.

fat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . See (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

* Bible, Joel ii. 24

The fats shall overflow with wine[, strong drink] and oil.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 429:

In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat', for 6s. 10d., a wort ' fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Synonyms

* vat

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(fatter)

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

:The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

:The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

Thick.

:The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat , fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Bountiful.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; said of food.

(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:making our western wits fat and mean

*(Bible), (w) vi. 10

*:Make the heart of this people fat .

Fertile; productive.

:a fat''' soil; a '''fat pasture

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

:a fat''' benefice; a '''fat''' office; a '''fat job

*(Thomas Carlyle) (1795-1881)

*:now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures

(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

:a fat''' take; a '''fat page

Synonyms

* (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat) chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also * (thick) thick * (bountiful) bountiful, prosperous

Antonyms

* Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat) lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin

Derived terms

* (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) *

Noun

(en-noun)

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

(countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

We need to trim the fat in this company

(slang) An erection.

"I saw Daniel crack a fat ."

(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

The best or richest productions; the best part.

to live on the fat of the land

(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

Synonyms

* (animal tissue) adipose tissue, lard (in animals''; ''derogatory slang when used of human fat ) * (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat) grease, lard

Derived terms

* * fat camp * fat chance * fatten

Verb

(archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

kill the fatted calf

(archaic) To become fat; to fatten.

Anagrams

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hole

English

(wikipedia hole)

Noun

(en noun)

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:

*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the holes where eyes should be

* (1809-1892)

*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .

*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#An opening in a solid.

(lb) In games.

#(lb) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.

#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

#(lb) A card (also called a hole card ) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.

An excavation pit or trench.

(lb) A weakness, a flaw

*2011 , - (We Are Young)

*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /

(lb) A container or receptacle.

(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.

Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Synonyms

* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

Derived terms

* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky hole

Verb

(hol)

To make holes in (an object or surface).

(by extension) To destroy.

To go or get into a hole.

(Ben Jonson)

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

(hele)

Derived terms

* holeable * holer * hole up

Anagrams

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