vest
- IPA[vest]
美式
- a sleeveless, close-fitting waist-length garment worn over a shirt, typically having no collar and buttoning down the front；a garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose or activity
- confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone；give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc.
verb: vest, 3rd person present: vests, gerund or present participle: vesting, past tense: vested, past participle: vested
noun: vest, plural noun: vests
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. US, Australian a sleeveless, close-fitting waist-length garment worn over a shirt, typically having no collar and buttoning down the front businessmen wear three-piece pin-striped suits with vests and neckties
- 2. a garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose or activity a running vest a bulletproof vest
- 3. British an undershirt, typically one without sleeves.
- ▪ a woman's sleeveless top she stepped out in a striped vest and skinny jeans with strappy black heels Kim looked chic in her pink jeans and white vest top
動詞
- 1. confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone executive power is vested in the President
- ▪ give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc. he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country’s economy
- ▪ (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of the bankrupt's property vests in his trustee
- 2. (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments he approaches the altar to vest for Mass
- ▪ literary dress (someone) the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe
