vat
see also: VAT
Etymology
VAT
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: VAT
Etymology
From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat ("vat, vessel, cask"), from Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt ("vat, cask, tub"), Western Frisian fet, Dutch vat, German Fass, Danish fad, Swedish fat, Icelandic fat. See fat.
Pronunciation- IPA: /væt/
vat (plural vats)
- A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
- a vat of liquid
- a vat of acid
- a vat of wine
- a vat of olives
- a vat of fat
- a vat of glue
- A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
- (Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
- (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
- French: cuve
- German: Bottich, Trog, Wanne, Schaff (dialectal)
- Italian: tino, tinozza, tinozza da concia
- Portuguese: tonel, tina
- Russian: чан
- Spanish: cuba, tina
vat (vats, present participle vatting; simple past and past participle vatted)
- (transitive) To put into a vat.
- (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
vat (not comparable)
- Designating a vat dye.
- vat red
- vat jade green
VAT
Pronunciation Noun
vat (uncountable)
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