Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

vest

/vɛst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms vests vesting vested

  1. noun (Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
  2. noun (UK) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
  3. noun A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
  4. noun Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
  5. noun A vestment.
  6. noun Clothing generally; array; garb.
  7. noun (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
  8. verb (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
  9. verb 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. verb 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. verb (law) 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. verb (law, intransitive) (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. verb (finance, intransitive) 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. verb (obsolete) To invest; to put. “to vest money in goods, land, or houses”
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

waistcoat singlet tank top undershirt invest enthrone robe

Etymology

Derived from French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
  2. noun Any outer covering; array; garb.
  3. verb To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
  4. verb To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; --followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.

Etymology [L. vestis a garment, vesture; akin to Goth. wasti, and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See Wear to carry on the person, and cf. Divest, Invest, Travesty.]

Etymology [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F. vêtir. See Vest, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vest”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details