vest
see also: Vest
Etymology
Vest
Proper noun
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see also: Vest
Etymology
From French veste, from Latin vestis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (English wear).
Pronunciation- IPA: /vɛst/
vest (plural vests)
- (North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
- Synonyms: waistcoat
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
- (British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
- Synonyms: singlet, tank top, undershirt
- A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
- Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
- A vestment.
- 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite:
- In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
- Clothing generally; array; garb.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)
- Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)
- (now, rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
- French: gilet
- German: Weste, Gilet (regional)
- Italian: panciotto, gilè, corpetto
- Portuguese: colete
- Russian: жиле́т
- Spanish: chaleco, chalequillo (Southern Spain, especially Seville - in this city, "chaleco" means "sweater" or "jumper")
- French: tricot de corps
- German: Unterhemd
- Italian: canottiera
- Portuguese: regata
- Russian: ма́йка
- Spanish: camiseta de tirantes
- Italian: canottiera
- Russian: ма́йка
- Italian: giubbetto, giubbotto, giacchetta, giubbino
- Russian: безрука́вка
- German: verleihen, übergeben
- Italian: investitura
vest (vests, present participle vesting; simple past and past participle vested)
- (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
- 1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:
- Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
- 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid:
- With ether vested, and a purple sky.
- To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
- to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
- c. 1718, Matthew Prior, To Mr. Howard - An Ode:
- Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.
- To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
- The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
- 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC ↗:, Book I
- Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.
- (legal) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
- to vest a person with an estate
- an estate is vested in possession
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC ↗:
- For the right of the crown vests […] upon his heir.
- (legal, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
- Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
- (financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.
- My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
- 2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104:
- If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
- 2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
- Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.
- (obsolete) To invest; to put.
- to vest money in goods, land, or houses
Vest
Proper noun
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