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Chest
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- 1 University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
- 1 A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
"The clothes are kept in a chest."
- 2 Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
- 3 box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy wordnet
- 4 A coffin. obsolete
- 5 furniture with drawers for keeping clothes wordnet
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- 6 The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
"You can take the money from the chest."
- 7 the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates wordnet
- 8 A chest of drawers.
- 9 the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen wordnet
- 10 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.
"Holonyms: torso, trunk < body"
- 11 The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
"Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk"
- 12 A female human's breasts. euphemistic
"He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare."
- 13 A hit or blow made with one's chest.
"She scored with a chest into the goal."
- 1 To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
"Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net."
- 2 To deposit in a chest. transitive
- 3 To place in a coffin. obsolete, transitive
- 4 To handle, deal with. Africa, transitive
"Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry."
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”).
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”).
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”).
Shortened form of Chester taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
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