How do you use the word "vat" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "vat": The VAT in Germany is 19 per cent. If I were a brain in a vat, I wouldn't write this.

Vat Meaning

/væt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.

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

Sentence Examples

The VAT in Germany is 19 per cent.

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

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

tub

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The brewery uses a huge steel ____ to ferment thousands of gallons of beer.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The workers used a large ____ to mix the different chemicals together before they started the manufacturing process today.

Word Origin & History

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 Etymology 3 of fat.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114:

"And neither party is up for imposing a VAT in place of the current income tax system." — 2024 December 28, Jonathan Nicholson, “Yes, There Are Ways To Cut The Budget Deficit. 'DOGE' Hasn’t Found Them So Far.”, in HuffPost:

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