vat

Meanings

Plural: vats

Noun

a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
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.
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

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.

Adj

Designating a vat dye.

Origin / Etymology

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 fat.

Synonyms

ad valorem tax, tub, value-added tax

Scrabble Score: 6

vat is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
vat is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vat is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

vat is a valid Words With Friends word