fat vs shadow

fat

adj
  • Of a role: significant; major; meaty. 

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

  • Bountiful. 

  • Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. 

  • Fertile; productive. 

  • Thick; large. 

  • 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) 

shadow

adj
  • Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized. 

  • Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were. 

  • Part of, or related to, the opposition in government. 

  • Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized. 

verb
  • To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up. 

  • To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first. 

  • To hide; to conceal. 

  • To represent faintly and imperfectly. 

  • To shade, cloud, or darken. 

  • To block light or radio transmission from. 

  • To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance. 

  • To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM). 

noun
  • A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. 

  • A small degree; a shade. 

  • An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one. 

  • Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity. 

  • That which looms as though a shadow. 

  • A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight). 

  • One who secretly or furtively follows another. 

  • An inseparable companion. 

  • A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc. 

  • A spirit; a ghost; a shade. 

  • An unconscious aspect of the personality. 

  • A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer. 

  • An imperfect and faint representation. 

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