fats
- 1Plural of fat.
Saturated and unsaturated fats behave differently in the body.
The recipe relies on several plant-based fats instead of butter.
Note
A plural that belongs almost entirely to the chemist's and nutritionist's fat: the lipid that is solid at room temperature, counted by kind, as in saturated fats, animal fats, plant-based fats. The other meanings stay singular because they are mass nouns. You trim the fat from a cut of meat or from a bloated organization, never the fats. Choosing fats signals that you are distinguishing types, not measuring an amount.
fats is a form of fat
fat, noun: A lipid found in body tissue, the bloodstream, and foods, which may be solid or liquid at room temperature, or a manufactured substance chemically resembling such lipids. Full entry
- Forms
- fatfats plural
- Spelling
- fat → fats: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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