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Vest
The vest is a garment worn on the upper body and must be close fitting. It lacks sleeves and more often than not, ends near the waist. Any given vest can be simple or ornate or for leisure or luxury. Historically, the vest can be worn either in the place of or underneath a larger coat dependent upon the weather, wearer, and setting. Sometimes though, a vest is worn over a short or long sleeve shirt. There are many types of vests, made of a wide variety of materials, those of which serve various functions and purposes and allow for variation both within cultures and cross-culturally. A vest might be closed in the front and pulled on over the head or can contain various frontal material like buttons or zippers.
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Singlet (noun)
A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.
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Singlet (noun)
A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak.
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Singlet (noun)
A quantum state having zero spin.
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Singlet (noun)
A single person occupying one human body.
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Vest (noun)
A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
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Vest (noun)
A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
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Vest (noun)
A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
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Vest (noun)
A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
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Vest (noun)
Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
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Vest (noun)
A vestment.
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Vest (noun)
Clothing generally; array; garb.
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Vest (verb)
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
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Vest (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”
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Vest (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.”
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Vest (verb)
To invest; to put.
“to vest money in goods, land, or houses”
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Vest (verb)
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”
“an estate is vested in possession”
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Vest (verb)
(commonly used of financial arrangements) 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.”
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Singlet (noun)
a sleeveless garment worn under or instead of a shirt; a vest.
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Singlet (noun)
a single unresolvable line in a spectrum, not part of a multiplet.
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Singlet (noun)
a state or energy level with zero spin, giving a single value for a particular quantum number.
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Singlet (noun)
an atomic or molecular state in which all electron spins are paired
“singlet oxygen”