English Dictionary

invest

/ɪnˈvɛst/

verb

To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. / (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).

I want to invest in stocks.

意味（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.

意味（2）

(transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).

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

意味（3）

(intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).

Cannot find one this girdle to invest!

意味（4）

To envelop, wrap, cover.

Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes

意味（5）

To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

意味（6）

To ceremonially install someone in some office.

意味（7）

To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme

Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued,

Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（10）

To lay siege to.

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.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To make investments.

意味（12）

(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

意味（13）

(intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.

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.”