invest

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈvɛst/    美 /ɪnˈvɛst/|/ɪnˈvest/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development.
动词 v.
  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. To clothe or wrap (with garments). dated,transitive
    — He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
  3. To put on (clothing). intransitive,obsolete
    — Cannot find one this girdle to invest!
  4. To envelop, wrap, cover.
    — Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes
  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.
    — Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
  8. To formally give (power or authority).
    — 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.
  9. To surround, accompany, or attend.
    — 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.
  10. To lay siege to.
    — to invest a town
  11. To make investments. intransitive
  12. To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
  13. To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to. intransitive
    — 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.”
  14. To inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain after a successful parliamentary vote. Spanish
    — 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).

词形变化

invests present,singular,third-person investing participle,present invested participle,past invested past invests plural

词汇关系

近义词
don dress
反义词
divest disinvest
衍生词
coinvest deinvest disinvest investable investee investible investiture investive investment investor investress malinvest misinvest noninvesting outinvest overinvest reinvest rentvest underinvest uninvest
相关词
divest vest vestibule vestment vesture

词源

词源 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. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.
词源 2
From investigate, by shortening.
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