vat

See also: VAT, vát, and vât

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology

From Middle English vat, a variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup; casket; division ”), 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.

Noun

vat (plural vats)

1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
3. (Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
4. (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. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)

Translations

A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning

• Dalmatian: tinir m
• Finnish: sammio (fi), vati (fi)
• French: cuve (fr) f
• German: Bottich (de) m, Trog (de) m, Wanne (de) f
• Icelandic: ker (is) n
• Irish: dabhach f
• Italian: tino (it) m
• Macedonian: каца f (káca)

• Old Saxon: fat
• Persian: خم (fa) (xom), خمبه (xombe), خمره (fa) (xomre)
• Portuguese: tonel (pt) m, tina (pt) f
• Russian: чан (ru) m (čan), бак (ru) m (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: amar m, coire m
• Serbo-Croatian: kaca, maštel, čabar, bačva
• Spanish: cuba f, tina (es) f

Verb

vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)

1. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

Anagrams

• ATV
• tav
• TVA
• vta

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑt

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.

Noun

vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)

1. barrel, tank
2. (biology) vessel

Synonyms

• ton

Derived terms

• wijnvat
• bloedvat
• lymfevat
• zeefvat
• vaataandoening

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vat. Related to vatten.

Noun

vat m (uncountable)

1. grip, both literal and figurative

   geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...

Derived terms

• handvat
• vatten

Verb

vat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vatten
2. imperative of vatten

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Rafsi

vat

1. rafsi of vamtu.

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Volapük

Etymology

German Wasser and English/Dutch water.

Noun

vat (plural vats)

1. water

Declension

declension of vat

	singular	plural
nominative	vat	vats
genitive	vata	vatas
dative	vate	vates
accusative	vati	vatis
predicative	vatu	vatus
vocative	o vat!	o vats!