/t͡ʃɛst/, /t͡ʃɪst/
OriginFrom 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”).
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
“The clothes are kept in a chest.”
“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 th”
- obsoleteA 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.
“Holonyms: torso, trunk < body”
“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.
“Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk”
“He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.”
“The wild gorilla was beating its chest.”
- euphemisticA 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.”
- Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
- 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.”
- transitiveTo deposit in a chest.
- obsolete, transitiveTo place in a coffin.
- Africa, transitiveTo handle, deal with.
“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 i”
- University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
Formschests(plural) · chist(alternative, obsolete) · chests(present, singular, third-person) · chesting(participle, present) · chested(participle, past) · chested(past)