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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: fast of esther - fate</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="fastofesther"> Fast of Esther,<DL COMPACT><DD> a fast observed by Jews on the day before the holiday of Purim, in remembrance of the three days' fast of Queen Esther before she pleaded with King Ahasuerus to save her people. Esther 4:16. </DL> <A NAME="fastofgedaliah"> Fast of Gedaliah,<DL COMPACT><DD> a fast observed by Jews on the third of Tishri, the day after Rosh Hashanah, in remembrance of the murder of Gedaliah, governor of Judah under Nebuchadnezzar; Tzom Gedaliah. Jeremiah 41:2. </DL> <A NAME="fastpaced"> fast-paced, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> filled with action or activity. Ex. the tense, fast-paced atmosphere of most television studios (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="fastreactor"> fast reactor,<DL COMPACT><DD> a reactor using fast neutrons without a moderator. </DL> <A NAME="faststepping"> fast-stepping, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> rapidly advancing; swift. Ex. a fast-stepping horse. </DL> <A NAME="fasttalk"> fast-talk, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD>v.t. to trick, allure, or mislead by means of high-pressure salesmanship or quick answers. Ex. The car dealer fast-talked me into signing an order. <DD>v.i. to talk fast so as to evade an issue or an explanation. </DL> <A NAME="fasttrack"> fast-track, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> rapid; accelerated. Ex. The Government has approved the use of fast-track planning procedures, which minimise the scope for public scrutiny and debate (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="fastuous"> fastuous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> haughty; arrogant; ostentatious. Ex. Also to be cleaned by autumn are the three long, richly pilastered, and fastuous garden facades of the Palais-Royal (New Yorker). adv. fastuously. noun fastuousness. </DL> <A NAME="fat"> fat (1), noun, adjective, fatter, fattest, verb, fatted, fatting.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a type of white or yellow, oily substance formed in the body of animals. Fat is also found in plants, especially in some seeds. Fats are made up chiefly of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. <DD> 2. this substance from animal or plant tissues used in cookery. <DD> 3. animal tissues composed mainly of such a substance. <DD> 4. any one of a class of organic chemical compounds of which the natural fats are mixtures, comprising an important group of animal foods. Fats contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but no nitrogen, and are chiefly glycerides, compound esters of several acids. They are insoluble in water but dissolve in ether, chloroform, and benzine. <DD> 5. something inessential or superfluous; excess. Ex. ... slicing the fat from military outlays (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 6. the richest, best, or most nourishing part of anything. Ex. Not of the princes and prelates ... Riding triumphantly laurelled to lap the fat of the years (John Masefield). <DD> 7. corpulence; obesity. <DD>adj. 1. consisting of or containing fat; oily. Ex. fat meat. (SYN) greasy, unctuous. <DD> 2. having much flesh; fleshy; plump; well-fed. Ex. a fat pig. The boy is fatter than his brother, but his father is fattest of all. <DD> 3. too fat; corpulent; obese. Ex. Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens (Shakespeare). <DD> 4. containing much of some constituent; fertile. Ex. fat land. (SYN) rich. <DD> 5. yielding much money; profitable. Ex. That fat job pays well. His sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends (Charles Sprague). (SYN) lucrative, remunerative. <DD> 6. affording good opportunities. <DD> 7. full of good things; plentiful. Ex. A fat kitchen makes a lean will (Benjamin Franklin). <DD> 8. thick; broad. <DD> 9. dull; stupid. <DD> 10. (Slang.) not much; little; small. Ex. A fat chance you have of catching him now. A fat lot of help you are to me. <DD> 11. (Archaic.) prosperous; wealthy. <DD>v.t. to make fat; fatten. Ex. fatting pigs for market. <DD>v.i. to become fat. Ex. The pigs fatted on corn. expr. chew the fat, (Slang.) to talk at length. Ex. He [likes] to chew the fat with his cronies (Manchester Guardian). expr. live off the fat of the land, to have the best of everything. Ex. That rich boy lived off the fat of the land. expr. the fat is in the fire, it is too late to prevent unpleasant results; matters have been made worse. Ex. ... farewell riches, the fat is in the fire (John Heywood). Once the Chinese began to criticize the Russians openly for going too far in courting nationalist governments, the fat was in the fire (Listener). adj. fatless. adj. fatlike. noun fatness. </DL> <A NAME="fat"> fat (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic or Dialect.) a vessel; tub or vat. Ex. The fats shall overflow with wine and oil (Joel 2:24). </DL> <A NAME="fatal"> fatal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. causing death. Ex. Careless drivers cause many fatal accidents. <DD> 2. causing destruction or ruin. Ex. The loss of all our money was fatal to our plans. (SYN) destructive, disastrous, ruinous. <DD> 3. important; fateful; decisive. Ex. At last the fatal day for the contest arrived. <DD> 4. influencing fate. The three goddesses who controlled the fate of mankind were called the fatal sisters. <DD> 5. (Archaic.) fated; doomed. <DD> 6. (Obsolete.) foreboding or associated with death or disaster; ominous. Ex. the black and fatal ravens (Christopher Marlowe). </DL> <A NAME="fatalism"> fatalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the belief that fate controls everything that happens. <DD> 2. acceptance of everything that happens because of this belief. Ex. A major worry is public apathy--fatalism bred of stories about the all-destroying horror of the H-bomb (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="fatalist"> fatalist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a believer in fatalism. </DL> <A NAME="fatalistic"> fatalistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with fatalism or fatalists. Ex. Are you a Christian, and talk about a crisis in that fatalistic sense? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). <DD> 2. believing that fate controls everything; accepting things and events as inevitable. adv. fatalistically. </DL> <A NAME="fatality"> fatality, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a fatal accident or happening; death. Ex. Careless drivers cause thousands of fatalities every year. <DD> 2. fatal influence or effect; deadliness. Ex. Doctors are trying to reduce the fatality of heart disease. <DD> 3. liability to disaster. Ex. His fatality predestined his early death. <DD> 4. the condition of being controlled by fate; inevitable necessity. Ex. We struggle against fatality in vain. (SYN) destiny, lot. <DD> 5. the belief that everything is predestined; fatalism. Ex. the pessimistic doctrine of fatality. </DL> <A NAME="fatalize"> fatalize, verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to incline to fatalism. <DD>v.t. to render subject to fate; yield to the inevitable. </DL> <A NAME="fatally"> fatally, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. in a manner leading to death or disaster. Ex. The soldier was fatally wounded in battle. (SYN) mortally. <DD> 2. according to fate. </DL> <A NAME="fatamorgana"> fata morgana,<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of mirage seen most frequently in the Strait of Messina. </DL> <A NAME="fatback"> fatback, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. salt pork from the upper part of a side of pork. <DD> 2. =menhaden. </DL> <A NAME="fatbird"> fatbird, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =guacharo. <DD> 2. =pectoral sandpiper. </DL> <A NAME="fatbody"> fat body,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. fatty tissue in insects that serves as a reserve food supply. <DD> 2. a mass of fatty tissues next to the genital glands in frogs and toads. </DL> <A NAME="fatcat"> fat cat,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD> 1. a wealthy contributor to a political campaign. Ex. Money has given labor a louder voice in politics, although it contends that its political spending is petty cash in comparison with that of industrial fat cats (Atlantic). <DD> 2. a person who expects special comforts or privileges because of wealth or position. Ex. No one of management calibre in the firm can be a "fat cat"--but must hunger for money or personal success (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="fatcat"> fatcat or fat-cat, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD> 1. of or belonging to fat cats. <DD> 2. smug or complacent because of wealth or position. </DL> <A NAME="fatcell"> fat cell,<DL COMPACT><DD> a cell containing fat. Fat cells make up the adipose tissue. </DL> <A NAME="fatcity"> fat city,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a very good, comfortable, or successful state or condition. </DL> <A NAME="fate"> fate, noun, verb, fated, fating.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the power supposed to fix beforehand and control everything that happens. Fate is thought by some to be beyond one's control. Ex. He does not believe in fate. There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings (James Shirley). <DD> 2. what is caused by fate. Ex. Drowning was his sad fate. <DD> 3. one's lot or fortune; what happens to a person or group. Ex. In every game it is her fate to get caught. He deserved a better fate. <DD> 4. what becomes of a person or thing. Ex. The jury decided the fate of the accused. <DD> 5. death or ruin; destruction. <DD>v.t. to be selected or destined by fate. Ex. All men are fated to die. He was fated to be a great leader. Thereby thinks Acrisius to forego This doom that has been fated long ago, That by his daughter's son he shall be slain (William Morris). </DL> <A NAME="fate"> Fate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a goddess of fate or destiny. See Fates. </DL> <A HREF="fated.dic">NEXT</A>