different between slow vs fat

English

Etymology

From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English sl?w (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sl??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /slo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)

1. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

2. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
3. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
   • 1960, Dissertation Abstracts (volume 20, page 4007)

     Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student […]

4. Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
   • 1999, Brian Paul Kaufman, K. Winston Caine, Prayer, Faith, and Healing: Cure Your Body, Heal Your Mind and Restore Your Soul

     And even after the emotional cast comes off, we need to be slow about getting deeply involved in a relationship again

   • 1611, King James Bible, Proverbs xiv 29

     He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.

5. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

6. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
7. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.

Synonyms

• (taking a long time to move a short distance): deliberate; moderate; see also Thesaurus:slow
• (not happening in a short time): gradual; see also Thesaurus:gradual
• (of reduced intellectual capacity): dull-witted; see also Thesaurus:stupid
• (acting with deliberation): careful, deliberate, prudent; see also Thesaurus:cautious
• (behind in time):
• (lacking spirit): boring, dilatory, dull, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish; see also Thesaurus:inactive or Thesaurus:boring
• (not busy): quiet, unbusy

Antonyms

• (taking a long time to move a short distance): fast, quick, rapid, swift; see also Thesaurus:speedy
• (not happening in a short time): abrupt, sudden; see also Thesaurus:sudden
• (of reduced intellectual capacity): keen, quick, quick-witted; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
• (acting with deliberation): hasty, precipitate, prompt; see also Thesaurus:prompt
• (behind in time): accurate, fast
• (lacking spirit): brisk, lively; see also Thesaurus:active
• (not busy): hectic

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slow (third-person singular simple present slows, present participle slowing, simple past and past participle slowed)

1. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

2. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.

3. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

   • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

Synonyms

• (keep from going quickly): delay, hinder, retard
• (become slow): decelerate, slacken

Derived terms

• slower
• slow up
• slow down

Translations

Noun

slow (plural slows)

1. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
2. (music) A slow song.

Adverb

slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)

1. Slowly.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

     Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.

Anagrams

• Lows, OWLs, lows, owls, sowl

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English slow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo/

Noun

slow m (plural slows)

1. slow waltz

See also

• quick

Further reading

• “slow” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [slow]

Noun

slow

1. genitive of sl?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?t, IPA^(key): /fæt/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophone: phat

Etymology 1

From Middle English fat, from Old English f?tt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

Adjective

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

1. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
   • 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis

     While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.

   • 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press (?ISBN), page 46:

     Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.

2. Thick.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

3. Bountiful.
4. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
5. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
   • 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman

     making our western wits fat & mean

6. Fertile; productive.

7. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
   • 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

     now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

8. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
   • , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"

     persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture

9. (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

10. (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
    • 1992, DeDe Owens, ?Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success (page 81)

      Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.

11. (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
    • 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre (page 131)

      He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.

    • 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing (page 12)

      He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.

    • 2012, Greg Robinson, ?Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens (page 9)

      Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.

12. Alternative form of phat (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
• (thick): thick
• (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous

Antonyms

• Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: fatu

Translations

Noun

fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)

1. (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
2. (countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
3. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

4. (slang) An erection.

5. (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
6. The best or richest productions; the best part.

7. (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
8. (informal) A fat person.
   • 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019

     Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.

9. A beef cattle fattened for sale.

Synonyms

• (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat)
• (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
• (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: fatu

Translations

See also

• fat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

Noun

fat (plural fats)

1. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:

     In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

2. (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Synonyms

• vat

Translations

Anagrams

• AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, aft, aft-, taf

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin f?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fat]

Noun

fat m (indefinite plural fate, definite singular fat, definite plural fatet)

1. luck
2. chance

   Synonym: shans, rast, mundësi

3. fate
4. destiny
5. spouse

Declension

References

Buli (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

fat

1. four

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fat/
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology 1

From Latin f?tum.

Noun

fat m (uncountable)

1. fate, destiny

Related terms

• fatal

Etymology 2

From Latin fatuus.

Adjective

fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)

1. bland, insipid

   Synonym: insuls

Related terms

• fatu

Further reading

• “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chuukese

Adjective

fat

1. clear, transparent

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?t/
• Hyphenation: fat
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)

1. dandy, a man obsessed with his looks

   Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker

Derived terms

• fatterig
• fattig

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Adjective

fat (feminine singular fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

1. conceited

Further reading

• “fat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• taf

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin factus.

Verb

fat

1. past participle of fâ

Adjective

fat

1. done, made
2. ripe

Etymology 2

From Latin factum.

Noun

fat m (plural fats)

1. fact, deed

Related terms

• fâ
• fatôr

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)

1. vat
2. item of clothing

Declension

Kowiai

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

fat

1. four

Ladin

Noun

fat m (plural fac)

1. fact

Derived terms

• de fat

Adjective

fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

1. done

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fat

Noun

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)

1. plate, dish
2. barrel, drum, cask

Derived terms

• tefat

References

• “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??t/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fat?.

Noun

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat, definite plural fata)

1. plate, dish
2. barrel, drum, cask

Derived terms

• tefat
• oljefat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fat

1. imperative of fata and fate

References

• “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *f?t and Old Norse feitr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fat/

Noun

fat m

1. fat

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fat?.

Noun

fat n

1. vessel, cup

Declension

Slavomolisano

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fatto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fât/

Noun

fat m

1. story
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fat n

1. saucer; a small dish
2. plate (serving dish)
3. barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
4. barrel; a unit of volume. Usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters

Declension

Derived terms

• (saucer): tefat
• (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
• (barrel; container): fatöl

Idioms

• (about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone)

Tboli

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

fat

1. four

Volapük

Etymology

From German Vater or English father.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat/

Noun

fat (nominative plural fats)

1. father

Declension

Derived terms

• fatül
• lefat
• lüfat

Wolof

Verb

fat

1. to shelter

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 19

Yamdena

Alternative forms

• fate

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

fat

1. four