invest

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

   “We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.”

2. fiil To clothe or wrap (with garments).

   “He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.”

3. fiil To put on (clothing).

   “Cannot find one this girdle to invest!”

4. fiil To envelop, wrap, cover.

   “Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes”

5. fiil To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. fiil To ceremonially install someone in some office.
7. fiil To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

   “Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]”

8. fiil To formally give (power or authority).

   “For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.”

9. fiil To surround, accompany, or attend.

   “The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.”

10. fiil To lay siege to.

    “to invest a town”

11. fiil To make investments.
12. fiil To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
13. fiil To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.

    “From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.””

14. fiil To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.

    “The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).”

15. isim A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.