vest
English
editEtymology
editFrom French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvest (plural vests)
- (Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
- Synonym: (Britain) 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, (US) tank top, (US) 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.
- 2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162:
- He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
- 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.
Hyponyms
edit- (sleeveless outergarment): safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest
Derived terms
edit- ballistic vest
- bulletproof vest
- close to one's vest
- close to the vest
- keep one's cards close to one's vest
- life vest
- more life in a tramp's vest
- Posey vest
- ranger vest
- rash vest
- sleeves from one's vest
- sobre-vest
- string vest
- suicide vest
- sweater vest
- tech vest
- vest buster
- vest date
- vest in interest
- vest pocket
- vest-pocket
- yellow vest
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Verb
editvest (third-person singular simple present 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.
- (law) 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.
- (law, 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
Further reading
edit- “vest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “vest”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
editDanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Noun
editvest c (singular definite vesten, not used in plural form)
- the west
Inflection
editcommon gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vest | vesten |
genitive | vests | vestens |
Derived terms
editAdverb
editvest
Etymology 2
editNoun
editvest c (singular definite vesten, plural indefinite veste)
- A vest.
Inflection
editReferences
edit- “vest” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch vest, veste. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
editvest f (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)
Synonyms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from French veste, from Italian veste, from Latin vestis.
Noun
editvest n (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)
Derived terms
editGerman
editAdjective
editvest
Latvian
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *westéi. Cognate with Lithuanian vesti, Polish wieść, Russian вести (vesti), Slovene vesti.
Verb
editvest (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present vedu, ved, ved, past vedu)
- to lead
Conjugation
editINDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | vedu | vedu | vedīšu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | ved | vedi | vedīsi | ved |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | ved | veda | vedīs | lai ved |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | vedam | vedām | vedīsim | vedīsim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | vedat | vedāt | vedīsiet, vedīsit |
vediet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | ved | veda | vedīs | lai ved |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | vedot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | vedošs | ||
Past | esot vedis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | vezdams | ||
Future | vedīšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | vedot | ||
Imperative | lai vedot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | vedam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | vedis | |||
Present | vestu | Present Passive | vedams | ||
Past | būtu vedis | Past Passive | vests | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jāved | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | vest | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jāved | Negative Infinitive | nevest | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jāvedot | Verbal noun | vešana |
Derived terms
editNorwegian Bokmål
editEtymology 1
editFrom Danish vest, from Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Noun
editvest n (abbreviation V) (indeclinable)
- west (compass point)
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Latin vestis, via French [Term?] and Italian [Term?].
Noun
editvest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vester, definite plural vestene)
Derived terms
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Noun
editvest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)
- west (compass point)
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Latin vestis, via French and Italian.
Noun
editvest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vestar, definite plural vestane)
Derived terms
editOld Swedish
editVerb
editvēst
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editvest n (uncountable)
Declension
editCoordinate terms
edit- (compass points) punct cardinal;
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Romansch
editEtymology
editFrom a Germanic language.
Noun
editvest m
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editSerbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *věstь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *waid-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvȇst f (Cyrillic spelling ве̑ст)
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “vest” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Slavic *věstь.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvẹ̑st f
Inflection
editFeminine, i-stem, long mixed accent | |||
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nom. sing. | vést | ||
gen. sing. | vestí | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
vést | vestí | vestí |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
vestí | vestí | vestí |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
vésti | vestéma | vestém |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
vést | vestí | vestí |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
vésti | vestéh | vestéh |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
vestjó | vestéma | vestmí |
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (dress)
- English terms derived from French
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- Rhymes:English/ɛst
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- en:Law
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- en:Clothing
- en:Underwear
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- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
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- da:Compass points
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- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- nl:Clothing
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Danish
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- nb:Clothing
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- nn:Clothing
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- Old Swedish non-lemma forms
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- Romanian terms borrowed from German
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- ro:Compass points
- Romansch terms derived from Germanic languages
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- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
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