fat vs lean

fat

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

  • Bountiful. 

  • Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. 

  • Fertile; productive. 

  • Thick; large. 

  • Of a role: significant; major; meaty. 

  • Rich; producing a large income; desirable. 

  • Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food). 

  • Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball. 

  • Bulbous; rotund. 

noun
  • Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts. 

  • A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. 

  • That part of an organization deemed wasteful. 

  • A fat person. 

  • The best or richest productions; the best part. 

  • A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids. 

  • An erection. 

  • A beef cattle fattened for sale. 

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

lean

adj
  • Slim; not fleshy. 

  • Having little fat. 

  • Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. 

  • Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. 

  • Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". 

noun
  • An inclination away from the vertical. 

  • An organism that is lean in stature. 

  • Meat with no fat on it. 

  • A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. 

verb
  • To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. 

  • To hang outwards. 

  • To conceal. 

  • Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. 

  • To press against. 

  • To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. 

  • To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. 

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