chest
IPA: tʃˈɛst
noun
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- A chest of drawers.
- (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
- (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest.
- Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
- (after a qualification) University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
verb
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
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Examples of "chest" in Sentences
- He throws the chest into the fireplace.
- A shadowy figure shoots Posa in the chest.
- Notice the plumage difference in the chest.
- It was fastened on the left side of the chest.
- Bob was wounded in the elbow and later in the chest.
- In the struggle, she is accidentally stabbed in the chest.
- It cures the accumulation of pathogenic factors in the chest.
- The chest measurement should be of the ribcage under the breasts.
- The trunk may be flexed toward the legs or the neck to the chest.
- Usually the tumor begins in the upperbody in the shoulder or upper chest.
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