Container vs. Vat — What's the Difference?

A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping. Things kept inside of a container are protected by being inside of its structure.

A large tank or tub used to hold liquid, especially in industry

An object for holding or transporting something

A 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.

A receptacle, such as a carton, can, or jar, in which material is held or carried.

Place or treat in a vat

A large reusable receptacle that can accommodate smaller cartons or cases in a single shipment, designed for efficient handling of cargo.

A large vessel, such as a tub, cistern, or barrel, used to hold or store liquids.

Someone who contains; something that contains.

To put into or treat in a vat.

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

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

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

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

(by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.

(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

(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.

(object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

(transitive) To put into a vat.

Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

(transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.

(computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.

A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding liquors in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.

One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.

A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

A large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes or packages, and used for convenience in loading and unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships, trains, or airplanes.

A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

A vessel for holding holy water.

To put or transfer into a vat.

A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids