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appoint
English
Etymology
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- Hyphenation: ap?point
Verb
appoint (third-person singular simple present appoints, present participle appointing, simple past and past participle appointed)
- (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- 1820, The Edinburgh Annual Register:
- His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.
- 2014 November 8, Ivan Hewett, Art on demand makes emperors of us all, in The Telegraph:
- We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.
- 1820, The Edinburgh Annual Register:
- (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
- 2014 November 3, Fredric U. Dicker, Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist, in the New York Post:
- Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders[...]
- (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- 2009, Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies:
- The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.
- 2009, Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies:
- (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- 1828–29 (case decided), published in 1843, in the Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery:
- If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad.
- 1828–29 (case decided), published in 1843, in the Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery:
- (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
- For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel.
- 1823 December 13, a record quoted in The Christian Library: A Reprint of Popular Religious Works (Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, etc; 1836):
- The day being very stormy, we were obliged to keep at home; which I much regretted, as it abridged my opportunity of seeing the Jewish synagogues, as we had appointed to do to-day.
- 1833, The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry:
- He had preached twice on the Lord's day, he preached also on Monday, and had appointed to do the same on Tuesday, but died that morning.
- 1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O'Kellys ?ISBN, page 251:
- On the following morning Lord Ballindine[,] as he had appointed to do, drove over to Dunmore, to settle with Martin about the money, and, if necessary, to go with him to the attorney's office in Tuam.
Derived terms
Related terms
- point
Translations
Further reading
- appoint at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appoint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- antipop, apoptin
French
Etymology
Deverbal of appointer. from Old French apoint (“favorable occasion; resolution, agreement”), from Old French apointier (“to work out, solve”), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pw??/
Noun
appoint m (plural appoints)
- an amount of small change
- money which completes a payment, balances an account
- (figuratively) complementary support
Derived terms
- faire l'appoint
- câbles d’appoint
- carburant d'appoint
- lit d'appoint
- propulseur d'appoint
- pièce d’appoint
Further reading
- “appoint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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invest
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?n?v?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.
Verb
invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)
- To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
- To envelop, wrap, cover.
- To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- To formally give (power or authority).
- To surround, accompany, or attend.
- To lay siege to.
- (intransitive) To make investments.
- (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
- (intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.
Synonyms
- (put on clothing): beclothe, don, dress; see also Thesaurus:clothe
- (lay siege to): besiege
Antonyms
- (clothe): divest
- (give): divest
- (commit funds): disinvest, divest
Derived terms
Related terms
- divest
- vest
- vestibule
- vestment
- vesture
Translations
Etymology 2
From investigate, by shortening
Noun
invest (plural invests)
- (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
References
Anagrams
- ventis
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