Vest vs Vestlet - What's the difference?
vest | vestlet |
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.
* 2010 , Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers , Random House, ISBN 9781400067534,
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.
* 2005 , Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options , page 104
* 2007 ,
A small vest.
(zoology) Any of several species of actinian of the genus , with a long, smooth, tapering body and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth.
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective vest
is able, skillful.As a noun vestlet is
a small vest.vest
English
(wikipedia vest)Noun
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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
- (Bouvier)
- 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 .