Fat vs. Plum — What's the Difference?

In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.The term often refers specifically to triglycerides (triple esters of glycerol), that are the main components of vegetable oils and of fatty tissue in animals; or, even more narrowly, to triglycerides that are solid or semisolid at room temperature, thus excluding oils. The term may also be used more broadly as a synonym of lipid—any substance of biological relevance, composed of carbon, hydrogen, or oxygen, that is insoluble in water but soluble in non-polar solvents.

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.

A natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus of the rose family, especially the cultivated species P. domestica and P. salicina, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single stone.

Any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat

The fruit of any of these trees.

(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh

Any of several trees bearing plumlike fruit.

Large in bulk or circumference

The fruit of such a tree.

Make or become fat

A raisin, when added to a pudding or cake.

The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.

A sugarplum.

Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.

A dark purple to deep reddish purple.

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.

An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward

Animal tissue containing such substances.

Variant of plumb.

A solidified animal or vegetable oil.

Variant of plumb.

Obesity; corpulence

The fruit and its tree.

Unnecessary excess

An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.

Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.

A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Full of fat or oil; greasy.

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.

Abounding in desirable elements

A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.

Fertile or productive; rich

Extended senses.

Having an abundance or amplitude; well-stocked

One hundred thousand pounds; generally a fortune.

Yielding profit or plenty; lucrative or rewarding

A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.

Prosperous; wealthy

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

Thick; large

A testicle.

Puffed up; swollen

A fool, an idiot.

To make or become fat; fatten.

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

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

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Thick; large.

Plumb

Bulbous; rotund.

Completely; utterly.

Bountiful.

(mining) To plumb.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich said of food.

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Fertile; productive.

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

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

Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.

Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

(theatre) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.

Exactly;

Alternative form of phat

Completely; used as intensifiers;

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

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

(countable) 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.

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

(slang) An erection.

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

The best or richest productions; the best part.

Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

A fat person.

A beef cattle fattened for sale.

(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

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

To make fat; to fatten.

To become fat; to fatten.

To hit a golf ball with a fat shot.

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

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.

The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

Abounding with fat

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

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.

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides);

A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs;

Excess bodily weight;

Make fat or plump;

Having much flesh (especially fat);

Having a relatively large diameter;

Containing or composed of fat;

Lucrative;

Marked by great fruitfulness;

A chubby body;