What's the difference between revest and revet?

Revest


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.
  • (v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.
  • (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These cords are made up of a core of cardiac jelly material revested by endocardium.
  • (2) Patricia Revest and Joan Abbott summarize the properties of endothelial ion channels, and explore the ways in which the channels could control permeability, secretion and smooth muscle tone.

Revet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unwinding angles for the structurally related antimalarial drugs chloroquine and quinacrine have been determined with superhelical Col E1 plasmid DNA by applying the quantitative method developed by Vinograd and co-workers (Revet, B.M., Schmir, M. and Vinograd, J.
  • (2) 262, 4943-4946; Krämer, H., Niemöller, M., Amouyal, M., Revet, B., von Wilcken-Bergmann, B., and Müller-Hill, B.

Words possibly related to "revest"

Words possibly related to "revet"