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vest | accord |

As an adjective vest

is able, skillful.

As a noun accord is

agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

As a verb accord is

(lb) to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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
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  • (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 .

    Anagrams

    * ----

    accord

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  • * 1769 ,
  • These all continued with one accord in prayer.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a mediator of an accord and peace between them
  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
  • * 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
  • Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
  • Agreement or harmony of things in general.
  • the accord of light and shade in painting
  • (legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  • (Blackstone)
  • (international law) An international agreement.
  • The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  • (obsolete) Assent
  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
  • Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
  • * Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
  • That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.

    Synonyms

    * (concurrence of opinion) consent, assent * (international agreement) treaty

    Derived terms

    * of its own accord, of one's own accord * with one accord

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  • *1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
  • *:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
  • (lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
  • *, Book III:
  • *:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
  • (lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
  • *1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
  • *:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
  • *1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
  • *:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • (lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
  • *1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
  • *:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
  • To give consent.
  • To arrive at an agreement.
  • Derived terms

    * accord with * accordance * according * accordingly * accordment * defence accord ----