chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛst/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: chests
form: chist
Etymology: From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”).
Senses: examples: text: The clothes are kept in a chest.
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
glosses: A coffin.
examples: text: You can take the money from the chest.
glosses: The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
glosses: A chest of drawers.
examples: text: Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
text: She had a sudden pain in her chest.
text: An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: thorax#Noun
related: word: head
word: neck
word: abdomen
word: limbs
glosses: The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.
examples: text: Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
text: He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
text: The wild gorilla was beating its chest.
related: word: back
word: dorsum
glosses: The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
examples: text: He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
glosses: A female human's breasts.
examples: text: She scored with a chest into the goal.
glosses: A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Synonyms: sense: the thorax
word: breast
sense: box
word: trunk
Derived terms: acute chest syndrome
arm-chest
bad chest
barrel chest
beat one's chest
blanket chest
bookchest
chestage
chestal
chest bag
chest band
chest-beating
chest becket
chest breather
chest-bump
chest bump
chest button
chest candy
chest cavity
chest cold
chest day
chest expander
chestfeed
chestfeeder
chest freezer
chestful
chestguard
chest hair
chest-high
chesticle
chesticles
chestless
chestlike
chestly
chest mark
chest melon
chest monster
chest note
chest of drawers
chest one's cards
chestpad
chest pass
chestpiece
chestplate
chest press
chest rub
chest surgery
chest-thumping
chest tightness
chest tube
chest up
chest voice
chest wall
chesty
community chest
coolchest
crescentchest
flail chest
freeze chest
funnel chest
get off one's chest
get the dirty water off one's chest
Hadley chest
hope chest
ice chest
keep one's cards close to one's chest
medicine chest
midchest
modified chest thrust
money chest
outchested
pie chest
pigeon chest
plan chest
puff one's chest
put hair on one's chest
put hair on someone's chest
sea chest
side chest
slop chest
steam chest
take off one's chest
take something off one's chest
tea chest
tea chest bass
tea chest bassist
tool chest
toychest
treasure chest
unchest
warchest
war chest
water on the chest
wedding chest
windchest
with one's chest