See Also: Unsaturated(medicine)
unsaturated fat(medicine)
Fat, unsaturated(health)
unsaturated(dictionary)
unsaturated(dictionary)
fats, unsaturated(medicine)
unsaturated alcohols(medicine)
fatty acids, unsaturated(medicine)
unsaturated fatty acid(medicine)

nosy (iou) and unsaturated fat (medicine)


nosy (iou)



nosy adjective & noun. colloq. Also nosey. E17.
[from NOSE noun + -Y1.]
A. adjective.
Having a prominent nose. E17.
Having a distinctive smell, strong-smelling. M19.
Having a strong sense of smell. rare. L19.
Inquisitive, esp. objectionably or unwarrantedly so; prying. L19.
N. Coward If you hadn't been so..nosy you'd never have known a thing about it. P. Lively You get to looking at people, when you're on your own. It's kind of nosy.
Special collocations & comb.: nosy parker (also with cap. initials) an overly inquisitive or prying person. nosy-parker verb intrans. be overly inquisitive, pry (chiefly as nosy-parkering verbal noun & ppl adjective).
b. noun.
(A nickname for) a person having a prominent nose. L18.
(A nickname for) an overly inquisitive or prying person. M20.
nosily adverb M20.
nosiness noun E20.

unsaturated fat (medicine)


unsaturated fat
<biochemistry> A fat that contains a carbon-carbon double bond, or a fat containing unsaturated fatty acids, such a fatty acid has double or triple covalent bonds and is thus able to add more atoms. Unsaturated fats are believed to lower blood cholesterol levels and are found at high levels in vegetable oils (olive oil, safflower oil, etc.) As a General rule, unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature.