VAT
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vat¹
- /væt/
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
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 Etymology 3 of fat.
noun vats
- A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. a vat of liquid
- A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
- A vessel for holding holy water.
- 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.
verb vats · vatting · vatted
- To put into a vat.
- To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits. 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
adjective
- Designating a vat dye. vat red
VAT²
Rhymes with -iː, -æt
noun
- Initialism of value added tax.value added tax And neither party is up for imposing a VAT in place of the current income tax system.
- Initialism of vigilance awareness training.vigilance awareness training
