(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.
Gat
Definition:
() imp. of Get.
() of Get
Example Sentences:
(1) A search for other mutations in N-RAS exon-1 in T-ALL revealed a codon 13 mutation substituting aspartic acid (GAT) for glycine (GGT) in one of 18 patients.
(2) Thus, these data physically verify the serological characteristics of GAT-TsF1 that were originally defined solely on the basis of biological activity.
(3) We found that the cell-associated form of a factor specific for L-glutamic acid60-L-alanine30-L-tyrosine10 (GAT-TsF1) is a 66 kDa protein which exhibits a slightly acidic isoelectric point, but no carbohydrate as determined by enzymatic analysis and lectin-affinity chromatography.
(4) Thus, helper T cells can serve as the cellular target of antigen-specific, MHC-restricted GAT-TsF2, and cloned helper T cells can be used as a homogeneous target population for analysis of the molecular mechanisms of T cell suppression.
(5) The maternal defect was shown to be a frameshift mutation with the deletion of a single T in the aspartic acid codon at position 690 (GAT), 11 amino acids N-terminal to the beginning of the transmembrane domain.
(6) The small inequality tau re gat greater than tau off2 suggests that charges which have returned from immobilization are not immediately available for displacement.
(7) Simultaneous immunization in vivo with the various GAT-Mphi or GAT-MBSA plus soluble GAT modulated the response pattern of these F(1) spleen cells such that they developed secondary responses only to F(1) and parental responder GAT-Mphi regardless of the response pattern observed after immunization with the various GAT-Mphi or GAT-MBSA alone.
(8) Two clonal cell lines, Cl-3 and Cl-7, were cloned from the PC-1 cell line, and these cell lines also carried the GAT point mutation at codon 12.
(9) Body weight was affected by Ea-B, Ir-GAT, and the interaction between Ea-B and Ir-GAT, but not by interaction with RSV response.
(10) The Charity Commission, which has already opened a case against the GAT, has been told of footage obtained by ITV’s Exposure: Charities Behaving Badly documentary.
(11) These results showed that immunization of (responder X responder)F1 mice with parental GAT-M phi results in the development of antigen-specific helper and suppressor T cells.
(12) The Plowell allele was shown in one M3P heterozygous individual to be due to a GAT(Asp) to GTT(Val) change at codon 256, in agreement with a previous study based on hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotides.
(13) T cell subsets from virgin and immunized mice, which are Ir gene controlled nonresponders to GAT, which regulate antibody responses to GAT have been characterized.
(14) When cultured in the presence of exogenous rIL-2 as a growth factor, GAT-specific Th cell lines secreted mainly IL-4, whereas bacillus Calmette Guérin-specific lines produced predominantly IL-2.
(15) Addition of GAT to cultures of spleen cells from nonresponder mice also prevents development of the GAT-specific PFC responses stimulated by GAT-MBSA.
(16) Anti-idiotypic antisera made against each of the 15 hybridoma anti-GAT antibodies preferentially bound homologous ligand and showed minimal binding activity to specifically purified serum anti-GAT antibodies.
(17) The inequality tau re gat greater than tau re Na was larger and statistically significant at -100 and -110 mV.
(18) Haplotypes with high antibody responses to GAT had significantly higher antibody titers to PM and MG vaccines than haplotypes with low antibody responses.
(19) In contrast, the Th cell line 52.3 used as control could be induced to express high levels of IL2R only after exposure to GAT; nevertheless, IL2 seems to play a critical role in the in vitro survival of the resting state of 52.3 T cells.
(20) These results suggest that posttranslational modification, including glycosylation, is not required for biological activity or for expression of the I-J epitope on the GAT-TsF2 molecule.