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单词 vat
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vat1

nounPlural vats vatvæt
  • 1A large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry.

    大缸,大桶

    a vat of hot tar

    一大桶热柏油。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A furniture stripper who fell into a vat of caustic soda has regained consciousness with his sight intact.
    • I tucked into a vat of some of the best seafood chowder I've had for a long while, complete with huge chunks of fish.
    • Because of a faulty rail, he fell into a vat of boiling liquid and died three weeks later from his burns.
    • In the small town of Seligman, we had a prodigious breakfast at Lilo's Cafe: eggs over-easy, hash-browns, sausage and bacon and a vat of coffee.
    • Shakespeare's Falstaff admitted that he sold his soul for Madeira wine, and so fond of it was the Duke of Clarence that, faced with execution, he chose to be drowned instead in a vat of Malmsey - the sweetest of all Mardeiras.
    • The little factory diversified into selling soda crystals to local dairy factories - the crystals were used to sterilise vats.
    • As part of his job fitting engines in ships he used to have to mix asbestos in big vats.
    • The mud bubbled and boiled like a vat of steaming oil.
    • He said that in over a century of holding Guinness, the vats had taken on an unmatchable colouring.
    • A man who was so sure he would die after falling into a vat of caustic soda that he drew up his will is now recovering at home with his wife
    • Called Raspberry Tart Ale, it introduces Oregon raspberries to the brew which is then fermented spontaneously in large oak vats, giving this liquid dessert incredible color and bouquet.
    • The clothes he wore for the video for their first single cost £2,000, yet look for all the world like someone just dipped him in vats of various coloured dyes (not an opinion he shared).
    • In both wine- and beer-making, initial fermentation occurs in large vats, allowing the carbon dioxide to bubble off.
    • Specifically, the milk flows into one of nine automated cheese vats, each producing a vat of cheese every 20 minutes.
    • The remake of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory was thrown into chaos on Wednesday when a worker dropped a $540,000 camera lens in a vat of chocolate.
    Synonyms
    tub, tank, cistern, bin, drum, canister, basin, steeper, boiler
    vessel, receptacle, container, holder, storage chamber, repository, reservoir
    barrel, butt, cask, keg, tun
    rare kid, kier, keeve
  • 2A water-insoluble dye, such as indigo, that is applied to a fabric in a reducing bath which converts it to a soluble form, the colour being obtained on subsequent oxidation in the fabric fibres.

    瓮染料,还原式染料

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other indirect dyes, including vat dyes and sulfur dyes, are insoluble in water.
    • But she said people like the natural vat dyes better, such as indigofera, morinda fruit and root, cashew leaf and teak.
verbvats, vatted, vatting vatvæt
[with object]
  • Place or treat in a vat.

    the grapes are vatted for between 15 and 21 days and then aged in small barrels
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To mark its 175th anniversary, Talisker is issuing a limited edition, specially vatted malt from a few carefully selected casks.
    • The Gaelic brands are the blended whisky Te Bheag, the lighter blend Mac Na Mara, and the eight-year-old vatted malt Poit Dhubh.
    • The last own label whisky I tasted from Asda was awful, but this vatted Islay (a mixture from several distilleries, though they're not saying which) is faultless in quality and price. -
    • The factory held three or four bonded warehouses, administrative offices, a bottling plant, a small cooperage, and an enormous vatting and blending operation.
    • On the face of it, Diageo's decision to change its Cardhu single malt into a vatted or pure malt seems no big deal.
    • The group tried to change the formula for its Cardhu brand last year from a single malt (the product of one distillery) to a vatted malt (the product of a number of distilleries), while retaining the same name.
    • The SWA is worried producers may have to reveal secrets about each individual spirit that goes into blended whiskies and vatted malts.

Derivatives

  • vatful

  • nounPlural vatfuls
    • Anyway, the adverts in the eighties would feature kids with mullets eating vatfuls of the stuff and being consumed in an orange glow.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is desirable to keep such yeasts which remain active and can be used again for the following vatfuls.
      • However, the first vatfuls put to fermentation are showing good quality, probably due to the low yields.
      • Next to films like these most American films are about as stimulating as a vatful of decaf.
      • It takes its name from the vat house in nearby St James Gate Brewery where, in the final stage of the brewing process, vatfuls of frothy black Guinness are left to mature.

Origin

Middle English: southern and western dialect variant of obsolete fat 'container', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vat and German Fass.

Rhymes

at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, whereat

VAT2

abbreviationvatviːeɪˈtiː
  • Value added tax.

vat1

nounvætvat
  • 1A large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry.

    大缸,大桶

    a vat of hot tar

    一大桶热柏油。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I tucked into a vat of some of the best seafood chowder I've had for a long while, complete with huge chunks of fish.
    • Because of a faulty rail, he fell into a vat of boiling liquid and died three weeks later from his burns.
    • Called Raspberry Tart Ale, it introduces Oregon raspberries to the brew which is then fermented spontaneously in large oak vats, giving this liquid dessert incredible color and bouquet.
    • He said that in over a century of holding Guinness, the vats had taken on an unmatchable colouring.
    • In both wine- and beer-making, initial fermentation occurs in large vats, allowing the carbon dioxide to bubble off.
    • The little factory diversified into selling soda crystals to local dairy factories - the crystals were used to sterilise vats.
    • The mud bubbled and boiled like a vat of steaming oil.
    • The remake of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory was thrown into chaos on Wednesday when a worker dropped a $540,000 camera lens in a vat of chocolate.
    • A man who was so sure he would die after falling into a vat of caustic soda that he drew up his will is now recovering at home with his wife
    • As part of his job fitting engines in ships he used to have to mix asbestos in big vats.
    • The clothes he wore for the video for their first single cost £2,000, yet look for all the world like someone just dipped him in vats of various coloured dyes (not an opinion he shared).
    • In the small town of Seligman, we had a prodigious breakfast at Lilo's Cafe: eggs over-easy, hash-browns, sausage and bacon and a vat of coffee.
    • Specifically, the milk flows into one of nine automated cheese vats, each producing a vat of cheese every 20 minutes.
    • Shakespeare's Falstaff admitted that he sold his soul for Madeira wine, and so fond of it was the Duke of Clarence that, faced with execution, he chose to be drowned instead in a vat of Malmsey - the sweetest of all Mardeiras.
    • A furniture stripper who fell into a vat of caustic soda has regained consciousness with his sight intact.
    Synonyms
    tub, tank, cistern, bin, drum, canister, basin, steeper, boiler
  • 2A water-insoluble dye, such as indigo, that is applied to a fabric in a reducing bath which converts it to a soluble form, the color being obtained on subsequent oxidation in the fabric fibers.

    瓮染料,还原式染料

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But she said people like the natural vat dyes better, such as indigofera, morinda fruit and root, cashew leaf and teak.
    • Other indirect dyes, including vat dyes and sulfur dyes, are insoluble in water.
verbvætvat
[with object]
  • Place or treat in a vat.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The factory held three or four bonded warehouses, administrative offices, a bottling plant, a small cooperage, and an enormous vatting and blending operation.
    • The Gaelic brands are the blended whisky Te Bheag, the lighter blend Mac Na Mara, and the eight-year-old vatted malt Poit Dhubh.
    • The group tried to change the formula for its Cardhu brand last year from a single malt (the product of one distillery) to a vatted malt (the product of a number of distilleries), while retaining the same name.
    • The last own label whisky I tasted from Asda was awful, but this vatted Islay (a mixture from several distilleries, though they're not saying which) is faultless in quality and price. -
    • To mark its 175th anniversary, Talisker is issuing a limited edition, specially vatted malt from a few carefully selected casks.
    • The SWA is worried producers may have to reveal secrets about each individual spirit that goes into blended whiskies and vatted malts.
    • On the face of it, Diageo's decision to change its Cardhu single malt into a vatted or pure malt seems no big deal.

Origin

Middle English: southern and western dialect variant of obsolete fat ‘container’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vat and German Fass.

VAT2

abbreviation
  • Value added tax.

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