different between vat vs vax

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

Alternative forms

• vaxx

Pronunciation

Etymology

From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate.

Noun

vax (countable and uncountable, plural vaxxes)

1. (slang) Clipping of vaccine.
2. (slang) Clipping of vaccination.

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

vax (third-person singular simple present vaxxes, present participle vaxxing, simple past and past participle vaxxed)

1. (slang) To vaccinate.

See also

Anagrams

• Xav

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse vax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaxs/
• IPA^(key): /vaks/

Noun

vax n (genitive singular vax, no plural)

1. wax

Declension

Derived terms

• bývax

Middle English

Noun

vax

1. Alternative form of wax (“wax”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse vax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.

Noun

vax n

1. wax

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a??/
• Tone numbers: va⁴
• Hyphenation: vax

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC ??ua^X).

Noun

vax (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography va?)

1. tile

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

vax (Sawndip forms ? or ????, old orthography va?)

1. to grab; to snatch

   Synonyms: (dialectal) gvax, (dialectal) gyaek, (dialectal) vamz

2. to dredge; to scoop; to haul (out of water)