Meat vs Fat - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between meat and fat

is that meat is meatus while fat is .

meat

English

(wikipedia meat)

Noun

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:

I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

* , II.8:

And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :

Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.

* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),

As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference.

* :

And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel // and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:

And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

(label) The flesh of an animal used as food.

* 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:

While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

(label) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

(label) A penis.

* 1993 , Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies , page 538

He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

* 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big , page 54

Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

* 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys , page 41

Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

(label) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

(label) The best or most substantial part of something.

* 1577 , (Gerald Eades Bentley), The Arte of Angling

it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

(label) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

A meathead.

(label) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

* 1949 , Oceania , Vol.XX

When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

* 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

* 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity

Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.

* 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is

Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".

* 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.

Usage notes

The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude (l) and other (l). For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves (l)s also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is (l)).

Synonyms

* (l) * See also * (penis) see

Antonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* beat the meat * dead meat * fresh meat * meat and two veg * meat draw * meat hook / meathook * meat pie * meat raffle * meat tray * meat wagon * meatball * meatface * meathead * meatman * meat safe * meaty * sweatmeat

Anagrams

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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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