chest.
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
Meaning & usage
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
The clothes are kept in a chest.
A coffin.
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
You can take the money from the chest.
A chest of drawers.
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.
She had a sudden pain in her chest.
An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
The wild gorilla was beating its chest.
A female human's breasts.
He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
A hit or blow made with one's chest.
She scored with a chest into the goal.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
To deposit in a chest.
To place in a coffin.
To handle, deal with.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).
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