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Vat vs Vai - What's the difference?

vat | vai |

As nouns the difference between vat and vai

is that vat is a large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning while vai is a verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.

As a verb vat

is to blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

As a proper noun Vai is

an ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

vat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.)

    • Verb

    (vatt)
  • To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    vai

    English

    Alternative forms

    * VAI

    Noun

  • (linguistics) A verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.

    • Coordinate terms

    * vii * vta * vti

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words ----