chest
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Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-Germanic *kistō (“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 formsEdit
- chist (obsolete)
NounEdit
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- The clothes are kept in a chest.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- 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.
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Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from chest
TranslationsEdit
strong box
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coffin — see coffin
treasury
chest of drawers
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thorax
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VerbEdit
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)
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2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC[1]:
- 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.
- Bible, Genesis 1. 26
- He dieth and is chested.
- Bible, Genesis 1. 26
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English 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”).
NounEdit
chest (plural chests)
AnagramsEdit
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.
PronounEdit
chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)
See alsoEdit
LadinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo.
AdjectiveEdit
chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
chest
- 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: