vest

Pronunciation: [vest]

Average Rank: 12461

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 背心, 汗背心 vt. 使穿衣服, 授予 vi. 穿衣服, 归属

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
  • v. place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons
  • v. become legally vested
  • v. clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: gk cet4 cet6 ky
Word Forms:
Past Participle: vested
Plural: vests
Present Participle: vesting
Past: vested
3rd Person: vests

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#7859

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 21.4% (Top 21.4% most frequent)
21.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#9525

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 4.8% (Top 4.8% most frequent)
4.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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