What's the difference between fat and flat?

Fat


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
  • (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
  • (superl.) Abounding with fat
  • (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
  • (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
  • (superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
  • (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
  • (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
  • (superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
  • (superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
  • (n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
  • (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
  • (n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
  • (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
  • (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (2) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (3) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (4) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (5) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
  • (6) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
  • (7) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
  • (8) The relationship of weight history with current fat distribution was also explored.
  • (9) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
  • (10) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (11) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (12) Assuming 1 kg LBM to contain 52.1 mmol potassium, the mean LBM was 3028 g in the I-NSM and 2739 in the I-SM; mean fat mass was similar in both groups.
  • (13) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (14) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
  • (15) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
  • (16) Computed Tomography was used to demonstrate the increased retro-orbital fat.
  • (17) The results obtained on fat cell membranes from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue demonstrated the following.
  • (18) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
  • (19) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
  • (20) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.

Flat


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
  • (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
  • (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
  • (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
  • (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
  • (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
  • (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  • (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
  • (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
  • (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
  • (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
  • (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
  • (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
  • (n.) Something broad and flat in form
  • (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
  • (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
  • (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
  • (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
  • (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  • (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
  • (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
  • (n.) A homaloid space or extension.
  • (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
  • (13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
  • (15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
  • (18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
  • (19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
  • (20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.

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