V = atの英語

発音

• IPA: /væt/
• 韻: -æt

名詞

vat (plural vats)

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

   a vat of liquid

   a vat of acid

   a vat of wine

   a vat of olives

   a vat of fat

   a vat of glue

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.

派生語

動詞

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, published 1985, page 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.

形容詞

vat (not comparable)

1. Designating a vat dye.

   vat red

   vat jade green

アナグラム

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta