Synonyms of the word vest


VESTAPPAREL - CLOTHE - DRESS - ENCLOTHE - ENTHRONE - GARB - GARMENT - GIVE - HABILITATE - INSTALL - INVEST - RAIMENT - ROBE - SINGLET - TOG - UNDERGARMENT - UNDERSHIRT - UNMENTIONABLE - WAISTCOAT

vest

  • n. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
  • n. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part…
  • n. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
  • n. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports…
  • n. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
  • n. A vestment.
  • n. Clothing generally; array; garb.
  • v. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass…
  • v. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed…
  • v. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another;…
  • v. (obsolete) To invest; to put.
  • v. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future…
  • v. (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.

apparel

  • n. Clothing.
  • n. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
  • n. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
  • v. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
  • v. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental.

clothe

  • v. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  • v. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

enclothe

  • v. (transitive) To cover with clothing.

enthrone

  • v. (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does),…

garb

  • n. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • n. A type of dress or clothing.
  • n. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
  • v. (transitive) To dress in garb.
  • n. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
  • n. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

garment

  • n. A single item of clothing.

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

habilitate

  • adj. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
  • v. European institutions of higher education: To qualify as an instructor or professor. Usually associated…

install

  • n. (computing) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
  • n. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.).
  • v. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
  • v. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
  • v. (transitive) To establish or settle in.

invest

  • v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
  • v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
  • v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
  • v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
  • v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
  • v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
  • v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
  • v. To formally give (power or authority).
  • v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
  • v. To lay siege to.
  • v. (intransitive) To make investments.
  • v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
  • n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…

raiment

  • n. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

robe

  • n. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
  • n. (US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
  • v. To clothe someone in a robe.

singlet

  • n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, Nigeria, New Zealand) A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck,…
  • n. (physics) A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak.
  • n. (physics, quantum mechanics) A quantum state having zero spin.
  • n. (plurality, otherkinship) A single person occupying one human body.

tog

  • n. A cloak.
  • n. A coat.
  • n. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces…
  • v. (transitive) To dress (often with up or out).
  • adv. (knitting) Abbreviation of together.

undergarment

  • n. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
  • n. (religion, in the plural) Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

undershirt

  • n. (fashion) An undergarment worn beneath a shirt, typically collarless and sleeveless.

unmentionable

  • adj. Not mentionable.

waistcoat

  • n. An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.

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