Meaning

4 senses
  1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.

    a vat of liquid

    a vat of acid

    Bottich, Trog, Wanne

    чанčan, бакbak, ка́дкаkádka

  2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.

  3. A vessel for holding holy water.

    a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

  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.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Tom fell into a vat of sulfuric acid.

    deTom fiel in einen Bottich mit Schwefelsäure.

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  2. Is VAT included in the price?

    Чи ПДВ включений до ціни?

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  3. How do you know you're not a brain in a vat?

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  4. While playing, Tom dropped the ball into a vat of water.

    ruИграя, Том уронил мячик в чан с водой.

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  5. If I were a brain in a vat, I wouldn't write this.

    ruЕсли бы я был мозгом в банке, я бы не писал это.

    deWenn ich ein Gehirn im Tank wäre, würde ich dies nicht schreiben.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), 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”).

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Forms

plural: vats
Singularvat
Pluralvats

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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