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vest

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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

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license

English

Alternative forms

  • (British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, South African and New Zealand English) licence (noun)

Etymology

From Old French licence, from Latin licentia (license), from licens, present participle of licere (to be allowed, be allowable); compare linquere, Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, leave).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?la?s?ns/
  • Hyphenation: li?cense

Noun

license (countable and uncountable, plural licenses)

  1. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
  2. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
  3. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
  4. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
  5. Short for driver's license.

Usage notes

  • In British English, Canadian English, Australian English, Irish English, South African English and New Zealand English the noun is spelt licence and the verb is license.
  • The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • licensure
  • licentious

Translations

Verb

license (third-person singular simple present licenses, present participle licensing, simple past and past participle licensed)

  1. Authorize officially.
  2. (transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
    1. To give formal authorization to use.
    2. To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
  3. (linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct).

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • license in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • license in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • Licence in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • selenic, silence

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