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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vest
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
life vest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bulletproof
▪ Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ Had she been favored with a Sweet 16 gala, the Phoenix miss would have taken her bows wearing a bulletproof vest.
running
▪ A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.
▪ Sally has donated her official Barcelona running vest to the appeal, which has a goal of £60,000.
▪ Call John Girling on for your free running vest, car sticker, sweatband and sponsor form.
■ NOUN
life
▪ The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
▪ Kathy pulled her arms inside the life vest.
▪ All wore life vests, officials said.
▪ She loaded the oars and gas can and life vest, then turned to close the boathouse doors.
▪ Kathy tucked her chin into the life vest, closed her eyes.
▪ Maybe she forgot to put on the life vest.
▪ State regulations require whitewater boaters to wear helmets and life vests.
▪ All three were wearing life vests and were unhurt.
pocket
▪ He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.
▪ And then Hardin withdrew a two-credit coin from his vest pocket.
■ VERB
wear
▪ He would often be dressed in just a loose-fitting pair of shorts, but sometimes deigned to wear a vest as well.
▪ They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.
▪ Tabitha was also wearing a white vest and Helena a shirt.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.
▪ About one hundred state troopers wearing bulletproof vests kept the groups well separated after a fistfight broke out in the afternoon.
▪ Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest.
▪ Women wear gowns with trains of fabric trailing after them; men wear vests and jackets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vested interest
▪ Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.
▪ The committee should be independent of all vested interest.
▪ A person from outside the process area who has no vested interest in an issue makes the best facilitator.
▪ Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.
▪ Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
▪ Lots of people have a vested interest in the past.
▪ Or to create a rational design that goes against vested interests will likely not be implemented.
▪ They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.
vested interests
▪ Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.
▪ Even fewer are unattached to vested interests in the debate.
▪ In jails, at the hands of landlords, vested interests, police, during the Emergency.
▪ Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
▪ Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.
▪ Probably the last of the true amateur captains, his decisions were not controlled by monetary or vested interests.
▪ That is partly a function of habit and experience, and partly the result of emerging vested interests.
▪ This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All his underclothes, his sports socks, his trousers and vests were smeared with shit.
▪ Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.
▪ Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.
▪ I was very glad of my thermal vest, three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.
▪ Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.
▪ The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
▪ Firstly, the justification given by the model for vesting substantial managerial power in the hands of the directors will be investigated.
▪ We know that advertisers have a vested interest in their power to suspend our disbelief.
▪ On 8 August Franco signed a law vesting in himself total power over the administration of the state.
▪ Civil rights, equal opportunity and Great Society legislation in the 1960s also vested more power in the federal government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was more efficient because decision making was vested in the director, whom I will call Faustino Mata.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vest

Vest \Vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vested; p. pr. & vb. n. Vesting.] [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F. v[^e]tir. See Vest, n.]

  1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

    Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
    --Milton.

    With ether vested, and a purple sky.
    --Dryden.

  2. To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.

    Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
    --Prior.

  3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

    Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
    --Locke.

  4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [R.]

  5. (Law) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
    --Bouvier.

Vest

Vest \Vest\, n. [L. vestis a garment, vesture; akin to Goth. wasti, and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See Wear to carry on the person, and cf. Divest, Invest, Travesty.]

  1. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.

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

  2. Any outer covering; array; garb.

    Not seldom clothed in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.

    Syn: Garment; vesture; dress; robe; vestment; waistcoat.

    Usage: Vest, Waistcoat. In England, the original word waistcoat is generally used for the body garment worn over the shirt and immediately under the coat. In the United States this garment is commonly called a vest, and the waistcoat is often improperly given to an under-garment.

Vest

Vest \Vest\, v. i. To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vest

early 15c., "to put in possession of a person," from Old French vestir "to clothe; get dressed," from Medieval Latin vestire "to put into possession, to invest," from Latin vestire "to clothe, dress, adorn," related to vestis "garment, clothing," from PIE *wes- (4) "to clothe" (see wear (v.)). Related: Vested; vesting.\n\n\n

vest

1610s, "loose outer garment" (worn by men in Eastern countries or in ancient times), from French veste "a vest, jacket" (17c.), from Italian vesta, veste "robe, gown," from Latin vestis "clothing," from vestire "to clothe" (see vest (v.)). The sleeveless garment worn by men beneath the coat was introduced by Charles II in a bid to rein in men's attire at court, which had grown extravagant and decadent in the French mode.\n\nThe King hath yesterday, in Council, declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes .... It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift.

[Pepys, "Diary," Oct. 8, 1666]

\nLouis XIV of France is said to have mocked the effort by putting his footmen in such vests.
Wiktionary
vest

n. 1 (label en now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. 2 (label en now North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. vb. 1 To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. 2 To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by ''with'' and the thing conferred. 3 To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with ''in'' before the possessor. 4 (context obsolete English) To invest; to put. 5 (context legal English) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of. 6 (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.

WordNet
vest
  1. n. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat [syn: waistcoat]

  2. a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body [syn: singlet, undershirt]

vest
  1. v. provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights" [syn: invest, enthrone] [ant: divest]

  2. place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"

  3. become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"

  4. clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments

  5. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes [syn: robe]

Wikipedia
Vest (development region)

Vest (West) is a development region in Romania created in 1998. As with the other development regions, it does not have any administrative powers. Its primary functions are coordinating regional development projects and managing funds from the European Union.

Vest (disambiguation)

A vest is an upper-body garment.

Vest may also refer to:

Vest (newspaper)

Vest is a daily newspaper from Macedonia. The paper was established in 2000.

VEST

VEST (Very Efficient Substitution Transposition) ciphers are a set of families of general-purpose hardware-dedicated ciphers that support single pass authenticated encryption and can operate as collision-resistant hash functions designed by Sean O'Neil, Benjamin Gittins and Howard Landman. VEST cannot be implemented efficiently in software.

VEST is based on a balanced T-function that can also be described as a bijective nonlinear feedback shift register with parallel feedback (NLPFSR) or as a substitution-permutation network, which is assisted by a non-linear RNS-based counter. The four VEST family trees described in the cipher specification are VEST-4, VEST-8, VEST-16, and VEST-32. VEST ciphers support keys and IVs of variable sizes and instant re-keying. All VEST ciphers release output on every clock cycle.

All the VEST variants are covered by European Patent Number EP 1820295(B1), owned by Synaptic Laboratories.

VEST was a Phase 2 Candidate in the eSTREAM competition in the hardware portfolio, but was not a Phase 3 or Focus candidate and so is not part of the final portfolio.

Usage examples of "vest".

Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul of this or that, even of the universe, but a soul of nowhere, a soul belonging neither to the kosmos, nor to anything else, and yet vested with all the function inherent to the kosmic soul and to that of every ensouled thing.

Morris reached inside his vest to his radio and switched frequencies so that he was on the channel that Stinky was using back in the aft escape trunk.

A quick twist of her fingers clasped the highest agraffe on her pourpoint, closing the vest to an uncomfortable tightness.

I had just finished wiggling into my boots and securing my vest when Alem handed me the flechette pistol.

Consequently in proceedings before a legislative court which are judicial in nature and admit of a final judgment the Supreme Court may be vested with appellate jurisdiction.

The result is to vest an unrestrained discretion in Congress to curtail and even abolish the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to prescribe the manner and forms in which it may be exercised.

United States should be at all times, vested either in an original or appellate form, in some courts created under its authority.

The Order cited no specific statutory authorization, but invoked generally the powers vested in the President by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

I could retort to that, Axel came back into the kitchen, now sporting a khaki vest with a ton of pockets and carrying three fishing rods and a small case.

He kept the secrets of the distillery close to the vest, but Axel was soon forgiven this lack of generosity because he sold his products cheap, as he was more interested in company and discussion than he was in profits.

He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.

Delilah, poking through a pile of flesh-colored knitted vests, gave it as her opinion that her benefactress had dealt the odious Miss Choice-Pickerell a crushing blow.

Clad in a hunting vest with woollen hose, he was engaged in making horse-hair springes for snipes and plover, while his eyes brightened as he beheld the bittern, and he vouchsafed a quiet nod to our salutations.

GoBop explained, pulling sheets of software fiche from zippered vest pockets like some comp magician.

The argument is conclusive, and the defence complete, if the Union is only a firm or copartnership, and the sovereignty vests in the States severally.