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Singlet vs Vest - What's the difference?

singlet | vest |

Vest is a synonym of singlet.



As nouns the difference between singlet and vest

is that singlet is a vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt while vest is a loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries.

As a verb vest is

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

singlet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, Australian, Irish, Nigeria, New Zealand) A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p28,
  • Winston wrenched his body out of bed — naked, for a member of the Outer Party received only 3,000 clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pyjamas was 600 — and seized a dingy singlet and a pair of shorts that were lying across a chair.
  • * 2000 , Nicole Matthews, Kitsch on the Fringe: Suburbia in Recent Australian Comedy Film'', Roger Webster, ''Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives , page 176,
  • The semiotics of the singlet - immediately identifiable in Australia, especially in its usual shade of blue, with male manual labourers16 - underlines the contrast between the effete fakery of ballroom costumes and real masculinity to be found underneath or in the world of folk dancing.
  • * 2006 , Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, Film in Australia: An Introduction , page 85,
  • However, even in the latter he wears a blue singlet to help remind the audience of his working-class roots.
  • * 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Live & Work in: Australia , Crimson Publishing, UK, page 192,
  • Women wear dresses, cropped trousers and vests with lightweight linen jackets and you will find men in anything from a business suit to a pair of stubbies (very short shorts) and a singlet top (white vest) or knee-length cargo trousers.
  • (physics) A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak.
  • (physics, quantum mechanics) A quantum state having zero spin.
  • * 2003 , Timothy M. Cox, 90: Protoporphyria'', Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, (editors), ''The Porphyrin Handbook , Volume 14: Medical Aspects of Porphyrins, page 132,
  • When a ground state molecule absorbs a photon, the values of the electron spins are not altered and thus the primary excited state is the singlet state.
  • * 2010 , Donald L. Pavia, Gary M. Lampman, George S. Kriz, Randall G. Engel, A Small Scale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques , page 416,
  • However, even if it were possible to supply benzophenone with radiation of the appropriate wavelength to produce the second excited singlet' state of the molecule, this '''singlet''' would rapidly convert to the lowest ' singlet state (S1).

    Synonyms

    * (garment worn underneath a shirt) undershirt, vest, wifebeater

    Derived terms

    * singlet oxygen

    Anagrams

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    vest

    English

    (wikipedia vest)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries.
  • A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
  • (label) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
  • A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
  • 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 9781400067534, 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?
  • A vestment.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
  • Clothing generally; array; garb.
  • * (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • Not seldom clothed 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 (British)

    Hyponyms

    * (sleeveless outergarment) safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest

    Derived terms

    * bulletproof vest * keep one's cards close to one's vest * life vest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
  • * Milton
  • Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
  • * Dryden
  • With ether vested , and a purple sky.
  • 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
  • * Prior
  • Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
  • 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.
  • * John Locke
  • Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
  • (obsolete) To invest; to put.
  • to vest money in goods, land, or houses
  • (legal) 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
    (Bouvier)
  • (commonly used of financial arrangements) 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 ,
  • 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 .

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