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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

Vat.

3

abbreviation for

  1. Vatican.

Vat.

1

abbreviation for

  1. Vatican
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vat

2

/ væt /

noun

  1. a large container for holding or storing liquids
  2. chem a preparation of reduced vat dye
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to place, store, or treat in a vat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

VAT

3

/ 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • un·vatted adjective
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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vat1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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