vat
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English vat, a variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup; casket; division”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
Pronunciation
Noun
vat (plural vats)
- A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
- A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
- (Roman Catholicism) 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. (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.)
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Verb
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- (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.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:
- He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)
- to take
- to grasp
Etymology 2
Noun
vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)
Dutch
Pronunciation
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)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch vat. Related to vatten.
Noun
vat m (uncountable)
- grip, both literal and figurative
- geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...
Derived terms
Verb
vat
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vatten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of vatten
Volapük
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Wasser, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English water, and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch water.
Noun
vat (nominative plural vats)
Declension
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æt
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Roman Catholicism
- English dated terms
- English transitive verbs
- Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans verbs
- Afrikaans nouns
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɑt
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch nouns with lengthened vowel in the plural
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Biology
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Volapük terms derived from German
- Volapük terms derived from English
- Volapük terms derived from Dutch
- Volapük lemmas
- Volapük nouns