Suit vs Vest - What's the difference?
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A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
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, title= (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
A full set of armour.
(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
(obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
The full set of sails required for a ship.
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
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To be appropriate or apt for.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
:Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) To dress; to clothe.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:So went he suited to his watery tomb.
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to fit one's taste.
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(lb) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by to'', archaically also followed by ''with .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The place itself was suiting to his care.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
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.
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, title= (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.
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A vestment.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Clothing generally; array; garb.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
* Milton
* Dryden
To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
* Prior
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To invest; to put.
(legal) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
(commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.
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As nouns the difference between suit and vest
is that suit is a set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman while vest is a loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in arabic or middle eastern countries.As verbs the difference between suit and vest
is that suit is to make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit while vest is (commonly used of financial arrangements) to become vested, to become permanent.suit
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suit ed men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).
Derived terms
* birthday suit * bring suit * diving suit * flight suit * follow suit * out of suits * pressure suit * shell suit * suit and service * suit broker * suit court * suit covenant * suit custom * suit service * suitcase * swimsuit * tracksuit * zoot suitSee also
*Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* to agree: agree, match, answerDerived terms
* suited and booted * suit up * suit yourselfvest
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(wikipedia vest)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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- 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?
- In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
- 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 vestDerived terms
* bulletproof vest * keep one's cards close to one's vest * life vestVerb
(en verb)- Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
- With ether vested , and a purple sky.
- to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
- Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
- The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
- Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
- to vest money in goods, land, or houses
- to vest a person with an estate
- an estate is vested in possession
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- My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
- 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.
- 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 .