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# vas

«vas» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tube or vessel in the body that carries fluid; mostly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (vas, plural vasa — medical, rare); fragment

### meaning for a pupil

1) (medicine, Latin) A tube or vessel in the body that carries fluid; mostly seen in vas deferens, the tube in a man's body that carries sperm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#m1)

2) A fragment of longer words such as vascular (to do with blood vessels) or canvas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#m2)

3) (French) Vas is a form of the French verb aller, to go: tu vas means you go or you are going; vas-y means go on! It sounds like va to an English ear. It is not an English word on its own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons it may appear in the name vas deferens in reproduction topics. In French lessons, vas-y and comment vas-tu (how are you?) are common phrases. Otherwise it is rarely used alone in English.

### examples

- The vas deferens is a tube in the male reproductive system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x1)
- Vascular plants have tubes that carry water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x2)
- In French, comment vas-tu means how are you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x3)
- Vas-y! means go on! in French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x4)
- Vas is Latin for vessel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x5)
- The word canvas ends with the letters vas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/#x6)

### note

Not a normal English word on its own; it is Latin (vessel) or French (go). In French the s is silent: vas sounds like va.

### In the corpora

- [yak teBE zvut? asks a kid's name; yak vas zvut? is the polite form.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vas» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vas/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.