different between vat vs vag

English

Etymology

From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

vat (plural vats)

1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
3. (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
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.

Translations

Verb

vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)

1. (transitive) To put into a vat.
2. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:

     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 of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat/

Etymology 1

From Dutch vatten

Verb

vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)

1. to take
2. to grasp

Etymology 2

From Dutch vat

Noun

vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)

1. barrel

Danish

Noun

vat

1. cotton wool

Derived terms

• vatpind
• vattet

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?.

Noun

vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)

1. barrel, tank
2. (biology) vessel

Synonyms

• ton

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vat. Related to vatten.

Noun

vat m (uncountable)

1. grip, both literal and figurative

   geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...

Derived terms

• handvat
• vatten

Verb

vat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vatten
2. imperative of vatten

Volapük

Etymology

From German Wasser, English water, and Dutch water.

Noun

vat (nominative plural vats)

1. water

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of vagina.

Alternative forms

• vadge, vaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Noun

vag (plural not attested)

1. (US slang, chiefly vulgar) vagina (or, informally, vulva)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of vagrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)

1. (transitive, slang) To arrest somebody as a vagrant.
   • 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)

     But I seen on the TV it was colder'n a witch's tit here so I stayed. Stuck it out. Then I caught a freight and got vagged.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

vag (plural vags)

1. (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) turf used as fuel

Verb

vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)

1. (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To drag; to trail on the ground.
2. (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To bend; to give; to yield.
3. (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) To flap; to blow in the wind.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[5], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 335

Anagrams

• AGV, AVG, Gav, VGA, avg.

Danish

Etymology

From French vague

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??/, [væ??j], [væj?]

Adjective

vag

1. vague

Inflection

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) va'g

Etymology

Related to Finnish vako.

Noun

vag

1. furrow

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin vagus, via French vague

Adjective

vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagere, indefinite superlative vagest, definite superlative vageste)

1. vague

References

• “vag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin vagus, via French vague

Adjective

vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagare, indefinite superlative vagast, definite superlative vagaste)

1. vague

References

• “vag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vague, Latin vagus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Adjective

vag m or n (feminine singular vag?, plural vagi)

1. vague

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French vague, from Latin vagus (unsteady, wandering).

Adjective

vag (comparative vagare, superlative vagast)

1. vague

   själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar

   the soul's most subtle inventions, its vaguest conceptions, its most volatile dreams

Declension

Synonyms

• diffus
• otydlig

Related terms

• vackla
• vagabond
• vagant
• vaghet

References

• vag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• gav

Volapük

Noun

vag (nominative plural vags)

1. emptiness

Declension