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- pronunciation:
- vest
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a waist-length, fitted, sleeveless, and usu. collarless garment, usu. worn over a shirt or blouse and often under a jacket; weskit.
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| definition 2: |
a sleeveless garment designed for protection of the body or for holding tools or other needed items for a particular activity.
The boaters were all wearing life vests.The police officer was wearing his bullet-proof vest.A hunter's vest is designed with many pockets.
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| definition 3: |
a similar garment, or front thereof, worn by women as a covering to fill the opening of a dress, jacket, or coat; dickey.
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| definition 4: |
(chiefly British) a collarless and often sleeveless undergarment worn next to the skin on the upper body.
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| related words: |
bosom |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
vests, vesting, vested |
| definition 1: |
to place in the possession or control of someone; confer.
The law vests control of the company in a board of directors. |
| definition 2: |
to place something in the possession or control of; invest or endow.
He was vested with a king's powers.- antonyms:
- divest, strip
- similar words:
- invest
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to put on clothing, esp. ecclesiastical vestments.
- similar words:
- gown
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| definition 2: |
to be or become the legal possession, power, or right of someone.
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| related words: |
dress |
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