Vest

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

   “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.”

2. isim A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
3. isim A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
4. isim Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.

   “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?”

5. isim A vestment.

   “In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.”

6. isim Clothing generally; array; garb.

   “Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.”

7. isim A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
8. fiil To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

   “Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.”

9. fiil 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”

10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil 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”

12. fiil (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.

    “Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.”

13. fiil 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.”

14. fiil To invest; to put.

    “to vest money in goods, land, or houses”

15. özel isim A surname.