vest

«vest» in Mova's school dictionary: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a piece of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a vest, vests)

meaning for a pupil

1) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a piece of underwear without sleeves worn under a shirt (in the USA called an "undershirt" or "tank top"). tree →

2) In the USA and Canada, a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt (in the UK called a "waistcoat"). tree →

3) A special sleeveless top that protects you or makes you easy to see: "a life vest", "a high-visibility vest". tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, children wear high-visibility (hi-vis) vests on school trips near roads, and life vests on boats. In PE, coloured vests (bibs) show which team you are on. Phrases: life vest, hi-vis vest, bulletproof vest, string vest.

examples

• Put on a vest; it is cold today. tree →
• Everyone wears a life vest in the canoe. tree →
• We wore bright yellow vests on the school trip. tree →
• He wore a smart vest over his shirt at the wedding. tree →
• The red team wear red vests. tree →
• Police officers wear protective vests. tree →
• He then went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China. tree →

note

Countable: a vest, vests. The meaning depends on the country: British "vest" is underwear, American "vest" is a "waistcoat". Safety: always wear a life vest on a boat, and a hi-vis vest when walking near traffic in the dark.

In the corpora

• A vest has no sleeves at all, so vests add nothing to the number of sleeves.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.