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vastest | vestest |

As an adjective vastest

is superlative of vast.

As a verb vestest is

archaic second-person singular of vest.

vastest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (vast)

  • vast

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
  • The Sahara desert is vast .
    There is a vast difference between them.
  • Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Anna Lena Phillips , title=Sneaky Silk Moths , volume=100, issue=2, page=172 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
  • (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
  • * William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
  • the empty, vast , and wandering air

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A vast space.
  • * 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
  • Derived terms

    * vastly * vastness * ultravast

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    vestest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (vest)

  • 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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