I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fatty acid
fatty foods
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Limit your intake of fatty foods.
fatty (= with a lot of fat )
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People are being urged to eat less fatty meat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
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Most plasticisers are soluble in fat and wrapping fatty food in this material is another way of increasing migration.
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Just as acidity works to add definition to sweets and fatty foods , the reverse is also true.
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Most people also underestimate the calories provided by fatty foods and fat-containing sauces and dressings.
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Eat fewer fatty foods such as processed meats and meat products, pies, pastries, crisps and ice cream.
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This occurs particularly with fatty foods , ie. cheese or meat.
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If you love sweet or fatty foods , it is difficult to switch to healthier alternatives.
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For instance, too many heart patients think that corrective surgery allows them to eat all the fatty foods they want.
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We should now eat far more carbohydrates and even less fatty food .
tissue
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These are quickly broken down, but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue , so weight loss slows down.
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When whales eat contaminated prey, organochlorines go first to the digestive system, and are then deposited in fatty tissues .
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Women, in particular, can train off too much fatty tissue , and this sometimes leads to menstrual problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds, aldehydes and fatty acids, which stimulated oxygen uptake.
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Are your knees chubby, with little fatty pads around the top of each knee?
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Most people also underestimate the calories provided by fatty foods and fat-containing sauces and dressings.
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Most plasticisers are soluble in fat and wrapping fatty food in this material is another way of increasing migration.
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Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic, of animal origin.
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The extracted triglycerides may then undergo hydrolysis to yield fatty acids and glycerol.
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The maximum concentration of free fatty acid in the incubation mixture was calculated to be 50 µM.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Get a proper job, fatties.
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He reviewed a gallery of the great fatties of all time, from Nero through Falstaff to Arbuckle.
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I insisted that we ride the fatties and leave Ram Rahim behind to eat, he being the thinnest of the three.