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vat

noun
/væt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.

  1. inherited from *pod-✻
  2. inherited from *fatą✻
  3. inherited from *fat✻
  4. inherited from fæt
  5. inherited from vat

Definitions

  1. 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

  2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.

  3. A vessel for holding holy water.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A liquid measure and dry measure

      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.

    2. To put into a vat.

    3. To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat

      To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.

    4. Designating a vat dye.

      • vat red
      • vat jade green

    5. Initialism of value added tax.

      • And neither party is up for imposing a VAT in place of the current income tax system.

    6. Initialism of vigilance awareness training.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA