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vest
Found in thesaurus: garment, undergarment, unmentionable, install, give, change owners, change hands, dress up, dress, clothe, habilitate, enclothe, tog, raiment, apparel, garb, fit out
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vest
n.
sleeveless garment that is usually worn over a shirt and often under a suit jacket, waistcoat; sleeveless garment worn for protection (i.e. life vest, bulletproof vest); undershirt (British); dickey, vestee
v.
dress oneself or another (as with clerical garments); give authority and/or right of possession to someone (usually over an estate); grant certain rights or the control of something to a person or group of people
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VEST
VEST (Very Efficient Substitution Transposition) ciphers are a set of families of general-purpose hardware-dedicated ciphers that support single pass authenticated encryption and can operate as collision-resistant hash functions designed by Sean O'Neil, Benjamin Gittins and Howard Landman. VEST cannot be implemented efficiently in software.
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Vest
A vest is a sleeveless garment covering the upper body. The term has different meanings around the world.
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vest
Noun
1. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
(synonym) waistcoat
(hypernym) garment
(hyponym) bulletproof vest
(part-holonym) three-piece suit
2. a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
(synonym) singlet, undershirt
(hypernym) undergarment
Verb
1. provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights"
(synonym) invest, enthrone
(hypernym) install
(hyponym) ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order
2. place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"
(hypernym) confer, bestow
3. become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"
(hypernym) change hands
4. clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
(hypernym) dress, dress up
(verb-group) robe
5. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
(synonym) robe
(hypernym) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
(derivation) clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear
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vest (het)
n.
waistcoat, vest, fortress, moat
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vest
n.
nátělník; vesta
