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English

Etymology

From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes-ti(h?)-, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit ?????? (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

vest (plural vests)

1. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
2. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
3. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
4. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
5. 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?

6. A vestment.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite

     In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

7. Clothing generally; array; garb.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)

     Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

Synonyms

• (garment worn under a shirt): singlet, tank top (US), undershirt (US)
• (garment worn over a shirt): waistcoat (Britain)

Hyponyms

• (sleeveless outergarment): safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)

1. (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
   • 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid

     With ether vested, and a purple sky.

2. 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.

3. 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.

   • , Book I

     Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.

4. (obsolete) To invest; to put.

   to vest money in goods, land, or houses

5. (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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

6. (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.

7. (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.

Further reading

• vest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vest in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ETVs, EVTs, vets

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/, [??sd?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, not used in plural form)

1. the west

Inflection

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sydvest

Adverb

vest

1. toward the west, westwards

Etymology 2

From French veste.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, plural indefinite veste)

1. A vest.

Inflection

References

• “vest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vest
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vest, veste. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

vest f (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. fortified wall, city wall
2. moat
3. boulevard

Synonyms

• veste

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French veste, from Italian veste, from Latin vestis.

Noun

vest n (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. vest, cardigan, waistcoat

Derived terms

• zwemvest

Latvian

Verb

vest (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. vedu, ved, ved, past vedu)

1. to lead

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest n (indeclinable abbreviation, V)

2. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• øst

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French [Term?] and Italian [Term?].

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vester, definite plural vestene)

2. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)

1. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• aust

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French and Italian.

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vestar, definite plural vestane)

1. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German West.

Noun

vest n (uncountable)

1. west

Declension

Synonyms

• apus, asfin?it, occident

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Romansch

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Noun

vest m

1. west

Antonyms

• ost
• oriaint

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sidvest

Related terms

• nord
• sid
• nordost
• sidost

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) vij?st

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *v?st?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).

Noun

v?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. report, news

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *v?st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?é?st/

Noun

v??st f

1. conscience

Inflection

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *geban? (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ?even, from Old English ?iefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Verb

give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)

1. (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
   1. To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

   2. To make a present or gift of.

   3. To pledge.

   4. To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

   5. To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.

   6. To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
   7. To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).

   8. To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
2. (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

3. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
4. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.

5. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
   • 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153

     […] who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.

   • 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248

     A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

6. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).

7. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.

   His window gave the park.

8. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

   The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

9. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
10. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
11. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.

    He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.
12. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
13. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

14. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
15. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

16. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.

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17. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
18. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
    • c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16

      My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.

19. (slang) To be going on, to be occurring

Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb give had the form givest, and had gavest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form giveth was used.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (transfer possession of): See Thesaurus:give
• (bend slightly when a force is applied): bend, cede, flex, move, yield, split
• (estimate or predict): estimate, guess, predict
• (provide):

Antonyms

• (transfer possession of): get, obtain, receive, take
• (bend slightly when a force is applied): not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

Derived terms

See also given, giver and giving

Translations

Noun

give (uncountable)

1. The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.

   This chair doesn't have much give.

   There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

give (plural gives)

1. Alternative form of gyve

References

• give at OneLook Dictionary Search

Danish

Alternative forms

• gi' (representing the spoken language)

Etymology

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *geban?, cognate with English give and German geben. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *g?eb?- (“to give”) (hence Sanskrit ?????? (gábhasti, “arm”)) rather than *g?eh?b?- (“to grab”) (hence Latin habe? (“to have”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???i?], [???i], (formal) IPA^(key): [???i???]
• Rhymes: -i?, -i?v?

Verb

give (imperative giv, present tense giver, past tense gav, past participle givet, c given, givne)

1. to give

Conjugation

Derived terms

Swedish

Verb

give

1. present subjunctive of giva

Anagrams

• evig