investとは

語源 1

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.

動詞

invest (三人称単数 現在形 invests, 現在分詞 investing, 過去形および過去分詞形 invested)

1. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

   We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.

2. (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
   • Edmund Spenser

     cannot find one this girdle to invest

4. To envelop, wrap, cover.
   • 1667: Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 207-8
5. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
7. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
   • Shakespeare

     I do invest you jointly with my power.

8. To formally give (power または authority).
   • Francis Bacon

     It investeth a right of government.

9. To surround, accompany, or attend.
   • Hawthorne

     awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt

10. To lay siege to.

    to invest a town

11. (intransitive) To make investments.
12. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand かつ plaster).

反意語

• (clothe): divest
• (give): divest
• (commit funds): disinvest, divest

派生語

関連する語

• divest
• vest
• vestibule
• vestment
• vesture

語源 2

From investigate, by shortening

名詞

invest (複数形 invests)

1. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

アナグラム

• ventis