Vest vs Assign - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between vest and assign

is that vest is to invest; to put while assign is a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

As nouns the difference between vest and assign

is that vest is a loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries while assign is an assignee.

As verbs the difference between vest and assign

is that vest is to clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely while assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

vest

English

(wikipedia vest)

Noun

(en noun)

A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries.

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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(label) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.

A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.

Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.

* 2010 , Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers , Random House, ISBN 9781400067534, page 162:

He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest' and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof ' vest if you could still get gunned to death?

A vestment.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

Clothing generally; array; garb.

* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)

Not seldom clothed in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

Synonyms

* (garment worn under a shirt) singlet, tank top (US), undershirt (US) * (garment worn over a shirt) waistcoat (British)

Hyponyms

* (sleeveless outergarment) safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest

Derived terms

* bulletproof vest * keep one's cards close to one's vest * life vest

Verb

(en verb)

To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

* Milton

Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.

* Dryden

With ether vested , and a purple sky.

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

* Prior

Had I been vested with the monarch's power.

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.

* John Locke

Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.

(obsolete) To invest; to put.

to vest money in goods, land, or houses

(legal) 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

(Bouvier)

(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.

* 2005 , Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options , page 104

If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest , you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.

* 2007 ,

Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest .

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assign

English

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

* (1796-1859)

*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

Derived terms

* assignment * assignable * assignation

Noun

(en noun)

An assignee.

(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

* Shakespeare

Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.

English transitive verbs