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Definitions: VESTING |
VESTINGNoun1. Cloth for vests; a vest pattern. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Vest |
Date "VESTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | True piqué has filling cords. It is a double cloth with 2 warps and 2 wefts; the so-called Bedford cord which is strictly a pique effect in a warpwise direction is many times loosely referred to as pique; this is a misnomer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: VESTING |
| English words defined with "VESTING": Condition precedent ♦ Donative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VESTING": vesting rights. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "VESTING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (fortress). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Naarden Vesting (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In accordance with the provisions of Article 297 paragraph (d), the validity of vesting orders and of orders for the winding up of businesses or companies, and of any other orders, directions, decisions or instructions of any court or any department of the Government of any of the High Contracting Parties made or given, or purporting to be made or given, in pursuance of war legislation with regard to enemy property, rights and interests is confirmed. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In 1998 the Federation revised these laws, removing this power from police and vesting it solely in the investigative judge; however, the Communist-era detention laws remained in force in the RS. Federation law permits prearraignment detention of up to 24 hours; in the RS prearraignment detention may extend for 3 days. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VESTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 56.86% of the time. "VESTING" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 56.86% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.41% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.84% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.92% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "VESTING": vesting order ♦ vesting rights. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "VESTING": pre-vesting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vesting | 20 |
period vesting | 5 |
cliff vesting | 4 |
title vesting | 4 |
401k vesting | 4 |
definition vesting | 3 |
order vesting | 2 |
definition texas vesting | 2 |
stock option vesting | 2 |
exercising option stock vesting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VESTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 授予 (Awarded, Awarding, give, Vested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | piqué. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bekleidend (clothing, enduing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πικέ (Bedford cord, piqué, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 권리를 줌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estingvay piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, welt). (various references) pique (Bedford cord, dig, peak, piqué, pique, pit, pluck, shaft, welt), acolchado (Bedford cord, cushioning, padded, padding, piqué, quilted, quilting, welt). (various references) yetki verme (entitlement), hak verme, haciz (attachment, confiscation, distraint, distress, garnishment, levy, seizure, sequestration), giyme (dressing, wearing), giydirme (dressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VESTING": vestings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "VESTING": devesting, disinvesting, divesting, harvesting, investing, overharvesting, reinvesting, revesting. (additional references) | |
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"VESTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cvdesign, desting, esting, Vadstena, Versteeg, verting, vestan, vesten, vestin, vetang, vising, visitng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VESTING" (pronounced ve"sting) |
| 6 | v e" s t i ng | divesting, investing, reinvesting. |
| 5 | -e" s t i ng | arresting, attesting, besting, breasting, contesting, cresting, digesting, ingesting, molesting, nesting, protesting, requesting, resting, retesting, suggesting, testing, wresting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, assisting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contrasting, costing, defrosting, delisting, disgusting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, insisting, interesting, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, readjusting, recasting, resisting, roasting, rusting, tasting, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, wasting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: givens, ingest, invest, signet, tinges. | |
-2 letters: gents, given, gives, inset, neist, nites, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stein, sting, tines, tinge, tings, veins, vents, vines. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, give, nest, nets, nevi, nite, nits, sent, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins, vein, vent, vest, vets, vies, vigs, vine, vise. | |
-4 letters: eng, ens, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ins, its, net, nit, seg, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, teg, ten, tie, tin, tis, veg, vet, vie, vig, vis. | |
-5 letters: en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: steeving, vestings, vintages. | |
+2 letters: agentives, devesting, divesting, genitives, grievants, ingestive, investing, navigates, negatives, revesting, steevings, vesturing, vignettes, vintagers. | |
+3 letters: congestive, estivating, evangelist, harvesting, negativism, negativist, outserving, overnights, restriving, revisiting, starveling, subverting, televising, timesaving, traversing, vertigines, vesicating, vetchlings, vigilantes, vignetters, vignettist. | |
+4 letters: advertising, aestivating, designative, devastating, evangelists, everlasting, instigative, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, levigations, longevities, negativisms, negativists, overcasting, oversalting, oversetting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, reinvesting, sovereignty, sovietizing, starvelings, stevedoring, timeserving, travestying, vaginitides, vegetarians, vegetations, vertiginous, vicegerents, vignettists, virginities, vivisecting. | |
+5 letters: advertisings, asseverating, decongestive, disadvantage, disinvesting, earthmovings, eigenvectors, evaginations, evangelistic, everlastings, eviscerating, fugitiveness, gingivitises, investigated, investigates, investigator, megavitamins, negativeness, negativistic, negativities, overcastings, overhuntings, overnighters, overshooting, overstaffing, overstepping, overstirring, overstocking, overstrewing, overstriding, overstriking, overstuffing, overtightens, revitalising, seronegative, timeservings, variegations, vesiculating, vinaigrettes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 53 54 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . ... - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E S T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56395354434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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