Vest vs Give - What's the difference?

vest | give |

As an adjective vest

is able, skillful.

As a verb give is

(may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

As a noun give is

(uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

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 .

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give

English

Verb

(may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

# To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

# To make a present or gift of.

# To pledge.

# To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

# To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.

# To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,

# To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like.

# To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.

#* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

Study gives' strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to '''give''' stiffness, the other suppleness: one ' gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

To yield slightly when a force is applied.

To collapse under pressure or force.

To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.

* 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153

who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.

* 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248

A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

To lead (onto or into).

To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.

* Shakespeare

But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.

To allow or admit by way of supposition.

* Milton

I give not heaven for lost.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

* Sheridan

I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.

To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

(dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.

* Rowe

It is given me once again to behold my friend.

* Alexander Pope

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

The soldiers give themselves to plunder.

That boy is given to fits of bad temper.

To become soft or moist.

(Francis Bacon)

To shed tears; to weep.

* Shakespeare

Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.

To have a misgiving.

* J. Webster

My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.

To be going on, to be occurring

Synonyms

* (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)

Antonyms

* (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

Derived terms

See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * give away * give away the store * give back * give birth * give forth * give head * give in * give it one's all * give it one's best shot * give it up for * given * give off * give one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * give someone the time of day * give something a miss * give something a shot * give something a try * give thanks * give to understand * give up * give way * it is better to give than to receive * something's got to give * what gives? * you only get what you give

Noun

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(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

This chair doesn't have much give .

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