Matted vs Vatted - What's the difference?
matted | vatted |
(mat)
forming a thick tangled mess
* 1899 ,
covered with mats or matting
(vat)
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
(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. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)
To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.
As verbs the difference between matted and vatted
is that matted is (mat) while vatted is (vat).As an adjective matted
is forming a thick tangled mess.matted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple [...]
