chest
English
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
- (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪst/[1]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology 1
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 Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”).
Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).
Alternative forms
- chist (obsolete)
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- The clothes are kept in a chest.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
- 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, […].
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- You can take the money from the chest.
- 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.
- She had a sudden pain in her chest.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest.
- He scored with a chest into the goal.
Synonyms
- (the thorax): breast
- (box): trunk
Derived terms
- arm-chest
- bad chest
- barrel chest
- beat one's chest
- chest band
- chest-beating
- chest becket
- chest breather
- chest bump
- chest-bump
- chest button
- chest candy
- chest cavity
- chest cold
- chest expander
- chest freezer
- chest hair
- chest-high
- chestless
- chestlike
- chest mark
- chest note
- chest of drawers
- chest one's cards
- chest pass
- chest press
- chest rub
- chest surgery
- chest tightness
- chest tube
- chest voice
- chest wall
- chesty
- community chest
- coolchest
- flail chest
- freeze chest
- get off one’s chest
- get the dirty water off one's chest
- hope chest
- ice chest
- keep one's cards close to one's chest
- medicine chest
- modified chest thrust
- money chest
- outchested
- 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 something off one's chest
- tea chest
- tea chest bass
- tea chest bassist
- tool chest
- treasure chest
- war chest
- water on the chest
- wedding chest
Translations
strong box
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coffin — see coffin
treasury
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chest of drawers
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thorax
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hit or blow made with front of one's chest
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Verb
chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
- 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.
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- (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
Derived terms
- chest down
Etymology 2
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”).
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
References
- Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] , 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, OCLC 671561968, page 74.
Anagrams
- Tesch, chets, techs
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste (see there for cognates), from Latin eccum (“behold”) + iste (“that”). Compare Ladin chest and Romansch quest.
Pronoun
chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)
- this
See also
- chel
Ladin
Alternative forms
- chëst
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum + iste. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.
Adjective
chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)
- this
- (in the plural) these
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ċeast, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).
Alternative forms
- cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛːst/
- Rhymes: -ɛːst
Noun
chest (plural chestes)
- fighting, strife, battle
- quarrelling, disputation
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- (rare) turmoil, discord
Descendants
- English: chest
References
- “chēst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)
Old French
Adjective
chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)
- Picardy form of cist
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χɛst/
Verb
chest
- Aspirate mutation of cest.
Mutation
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cest | gest | nghest | chest |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||