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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Name

Definition 1:
• University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
Labels: after a qualification
Noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/

Definition 1:
• Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
Noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/

Definition 1:
• A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
Example: The clothes are kept in a chest.

Definition 2:
• A coffin.
Labels: obsolete

Definition 3:
• The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
Example: You can take the money from the chest.

Definition 4:
• A chest of drawers.

Definition 5:
• 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.
Example: She had a sudden pain in her chest.
Example: An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
Labels: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Definition 6:
• The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
Example: He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
Example: The wild gorilla was beating its chest.

Definition 7:
• A female human's breasts.
Example: He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
Labels: euphemistic

Definition 8:
• A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Example: She scored with a chest into the goal.
Verb
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst/

Definition 1:
• To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

Definition 2:
• To deposit in a chest.
Labels: transitive

Definition 3:
• To place in a coffin.
Labels: obsolete, transitive

Definition 4:
• To handle, deal with.
Labels: Africa, transitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chest