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It's perhaps a bit higher in fat, but it's still quite reasonable and the fat is actually enhancing the flavor here rather than sitting in fatty, inedible chicken so I'm more inclined to accept the fat here.

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  1. noun The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.
  2. noun Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
  3. noun A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
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  • Below the fat are the muscles of your face Maybe you remember all this from art school, from Figure Anatomy 201.
  • By my labor, I would either prove to my father that my fat was a magical result of the plague, or I would regain my former condition and perhaps be able to reclaim my place at the academy. —  forestmage
  • It's perhaps a bit higher in fat, but it's still quite reasonable and the fat is actually enhancing the flavor here rather than sitting in fatty, inedible chicken so I'm more inclined to accept the fat here. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • "I don't want to use the word 'exercise-in-a-pill,' but it's doing something (that's) getting rid of calories," he said, adding that any obesity treatment developed around the fat could be a potential treatment for —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • "I don't want to use the word 'exercise-in-a-pill,' but it's doing something (that's) getting rid of calories," he said, adding that any obesity treatment developed around the fat could be a potential treatment for diabetes as well.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fǣtt, fatted; see peiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fat, fet, also vat, vet, from Anglo-Saxon fæt, usually fætt (fætt being reg. contracted, with shortened vowel, from fǣted = Old Low German feitit = Old High German feizit, Middle High German veizet, veizt, German feist, fat, orig. past participle of a verb *fǣtan = Old High German feizan = Icel.feita, from the adjective), properly with a long vowel, fǣt (orig. *fāt) = OFries. (late) fat, modern fet = Dutch vet = Middle Low German fēt, feit, Low German fett (later G. fett) = Middle High German veiz = Icelandic feitr = Swedish fet = Danish fed (with long vowel), fat. For the Anglo-Saxon contr. fǣtt, from fǣted, fat, cf. fǣtt, from fǣted (both in use), gilded, ornamented.
  2. from Middle English fatten, from Anglo-Saxon fættian, intransitive, become fat, ge-fættian, make fat, anoint, from fætt, fat: see fat, a. Cf. fatten.
  3. from Middle English fat, fet, also (southern Middle English) vat, vet (whence the usual English form vat), from Anglo-Saxon fæt (= Old Saxon fat = Dutch vat = Low German vat = Old High German faz, Middle High German vaz, German fass = Icelandic fat = Swedish fat = Danish fad), a vessel; perhaps connected, as a ‘containing’ vessel, with D. vatten = Old High German fazzōn, Middle High German vazzen, German fassen = Danish fatte = Swedish fatta, seize, take, hold, contain.
 

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