invest
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
engineering
government
metallurgy
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.
Inflected forms:
form: invests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: investing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: invested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: invested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: invests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
pos: verb
examples: We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
The authors predicted that when believers were deeply invested in a world view that had social support, believers would maintain their beliefs even when actual events disproved their worldview.
We did not spend. We invested. [CEO Jeff Housenbold: He's learning!] I invest. Yes, I invested. I invested in a city for the contestants.
gloss: To clothe or wrap (with garments).
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
gloss: To put on (clothing).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Cannot find one this girdle to invest!
gloss: To envelop, wrap, cover.
pos: verb
examples: Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes
gloss: To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
pos: verb
gloss: To ceremonially install someone in some office.
pos: verb
gloss: To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
pos: verb
examples: Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme
Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued,
Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
I do invest you jointly with my power.
The Syariah Courts duly constituted under any law in a State and invested with jurisdiction over persons professing the religion of Islam […] are hereby conferred jurisdiction in respect of offences against precepts of the religion of Islam by persons professing that religion which may be prescribed under any written law […]
gloss: To formally give (power or authority).
pos: verb
examples: For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.
gloss: To surround, accompany, or attend.
pos: verb
examples: The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.
For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
gloss: To lay siege to.
pos: verb
examples: to invest a town
When she related that a band of fanatics, after robbing a church of all its silver-plate, and burning the adjacent vicarage, drunk with their success, had invested the Castle, and cried aloud for ‘the man’ to be brought unto them, that he might be hewed to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal—[…]her young hearers felt a deep stirring of the heart,—a proud yet mellowed elation that never yet was felt by the reader of a written history, though its pages were as legitimate as any sanctioned by the royal licenser at Madrid.
gloss: To make investments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.”
She knew from watching him grow up that he didn't let that many people too close to him, but once he did, he was invested in that relationship.
We decided that it was because he trusted the core beliefs of the Conservative Party, and he was invested in their vision of change in the NorthWest of England where he comes from.
gloss: To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote.
pos: verb
tags: Spanish
examples: The outcome also makes it very difficult for Feijóo to become the next PM, because he does not have the support to be invested as such, unless there are changes in the initial positions of key players such as the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
gloss: A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
pos: noun
Synonyms: don
dress
Antonyms: divest
disinvest
Related words: divest
vest
vestibule
vestment
vesture
Derived words: coinvest
deinvest
disinvest
investable
investee
investible
investiture
investive
investment
investor
investress
malinvest
misinvest
noninvesting
outinvest
overinvest
reinvest
rentvest
underinvest
uninvest
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: investir
lang: Finnish
word: valtuuttaa
lang: French
word: investir
lang: Portuguese
word: investir
lang: Russian
word: наделя́ть
roman: nadeljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: надели́ть
roman: nadelítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: investir