vat

¹

[ vat ]

noun

1. a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids:

   a wine vat.

2. Chemistry.
   1. a preparation containing an insoluble dye converted by reduction into a soluble leuco base.
   2. a vessel containing such a preparation.

verb (used with object)

, vat·ted, vat·ting.

1. to put into or treat in a vat.

VAT

²

noun

1. value-added tax.

Vat.

³

abbreviation for

1. Vatican.

VAT

¹

/ væt /

abbreviation for

1. value-added tax: a tax levied on the difference between the cost of materials and the selling price of a commodity or service

Vat.

²

abbreviation for

1. Vatican

vat

³

/ væt /

noun

1. a large container for holding or storing liquids
2. chem a preparation of reduced vat dye

verb

1. tr to place, store, or treat in a vat

Other Words From

• un·vatted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of vat¹

before 1100; Middle English (south); Old English fæt vessel; cognate with Old Norse fat vessel, German Fass keg

Word History and Origins

Origin of vat¹

Old English fæt; related to Old Frisian fet, Old Saxon, Old Norse fat, Old High German faz

Example Sentences

When that garbage is diverted into a vat of energy-producing soup, it becomes a penny earned.

From The Daily Beast

It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.

From The Daily Beast

He kills his own son in cold blood (or in a vat of hot macadamia butter, to be specific).

From The Daily Beast

Burning a girl alive while her father watches or cooking a severed head into a vat of chili?

From The Daily Beast

And, also, there ought to be no other forms of taxation, like a national sales tax or a VAT tax or what have you.

From The Daily Beast

But my faver says it's un-man-ly to be always kissing, and I did n't fink you'd do vat, Coppy.

From Project Gutenberg

Acid fumes escaping under the vat lids made the haze and seared the man's throat.

From Project Gutenberg

The vat contained an acid powerful enough to destroy anything—except gold.

From Project Gutenberg

Oof you hatn't done vat you dit, I bed you somet'ing der modor-car vould haf peen a lot oof junk.

From Project Gutenberg

Und der feller vat hat it didn't vant it, or he vouldn't haf let it go.

From Project Gutenberg