脂 — meaning in English

English meaning

• fat noun A soft, greasy substance stored in the body (or found in food) that provides energy.
• tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

脂 is used for these senses in English:

• tar (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

fat — full definition

1. noun A soft, greasy substance stored in the body (or found in food) that provides energy.
2. adj Having a large amount of body fat; overweight.
3. noun The most valuable or wasteful part of something, as in "trim the fat" from a budget.

tar — full definition

1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
2. verb To coat something with tar.
3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.

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