Chest

Definition: Chest

Chest

Noun

1. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.

2. Box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy.

3. Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CHEST

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Chest

Defiance

Show fight, show one's teeth, show a bold front; bluster, look big, stand akimbo, beat one's chest; double the fist, shake the fist; threaten.

Information

Let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose.

Receptacle

Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.

Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.

Relief

Disburden; (free); take a load off one's chest, get a load off one's chest, take off a load of care.

Treasury

Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie.

Crosswords: Chest

I'm a lot like my dad: brown hair, flat chest. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

Um, I suggest a vigorous chest massage, and if that doesn't work, uh, mouth-to-mouth (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Yeah I know what you'd like to do. You'd like to find the guy who did it, rip his still beating heart out of his chest and hold it in front of his face so he can see how black it is before he dies (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

He stabbed my mom four times in the chest. (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

Whew! Glad I got that off my chest! (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)

The track hits ya eardrum, like a slug to ya chest (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

But it's hard to digest with the size of the hole in your chest (Party Up; performing artist: DMX)

Hit be square in the chest, wasn't wearin a vest (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

I'm tryin to put this, piece to ya chest (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

And my chest was weezin', thanks for the look of love (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. (references; author: unknown)

Dead Man's Chest (1965)

Sportivnaya chest (1951)

The Shanghai Chest (1948)

Chest (1938)

Treasure Chest Series: Krazi Inventions (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Treasure Chest of Behavioral Strategies for Individuals With Autism (reference)

• An Introduction to Family Nights: Creating Lasting Impressions for the Next Generation (A Heritage Builders Book: Family Night Tool Chest Book 1) (reference)

• Ancient China: 2,000 Years of Mystery and Adventure to Unlock and Discover (Treasure Chest) (reference)

• Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology: A Programmed Text (reference)

• Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance Treasure Chest (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chest (reference)

• Chest Surgery Clinics Of North America (reference)

• Clinics In Chest Medicine (reference)

• Indian Journal Of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences (reference)

• Practical Reviews In Chest Medicine - Sound Recording (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Abs & Chest of Steel 2000 (reference)

• Healthy Massage, Part 1: The Scalp, Face, Neck and Chest (reference)

• Men of Steel: Abs & Chest of Steel - Target Toning for Abdominals & Chest (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Duke Reid's Treasure Chest (reference)

• Treasure Chest (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Diablo Battle Chest (reference)

• StarCraft Battle Chest (reference)

• Warcraft 2 Battle Chest (reference)

• Crayola Kids Media Storage Chest (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Biltmore 4 Drawer Chest - Natural (reference)

• Venetian Baby Chest - Pecan (reference)

• American Flag and Keepsake Storage Chest (reference)

• Farberware Simplicity 44-Piece Flatware Place Setting with bonus chest (reference)

• Knaack 32 Jobmaster Jobsite Storage Chest (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Line drawing showing interior of chest. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This is an x-ray image of a chest. Both sides of the lungs are visible with a growth on the left side of the lung, which could possibly be lung cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Closeup of man's chest showing skin lesion of meningococcemia. Credit: CDC.

Radiograph taken 22 hours before death; AP Chest X-ray. Credit: CDC.

This patient had an extensive papulosquamous rash that developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

A patient with a papular rash on the left arm that developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

These papulosquamous lesions on the back and shoulder developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

After a positive skin test, one is required to have a chest x-ray to see if the subject has the active form of the disease. Credit: CDC.

This AP X-ray of the chest reveals the presence of bilateral pulmonary infiltrate, and “caving formation” present in the right apical region. The diagnosis is far-advanced tuberculosis. Credit: CDC.

Pulmonary disease common symptoms are fever, cough, and chest pain; for central nervous system disease symptoms are usually headache, lethargy, confusion, seizures, and sudden onset of neurologic deficit. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Lynch, for answer, straightened himself and thrust forward his chest.

He held the apple box against his chest.

In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we the searchers were not able to lift

An old man, a potter, who lived by the pond before the Revolution, told him once that there was an iron chest at the bottom, and that he had seen it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Chest X-rays often show pneumonia. (references)

Placed in the abdomen, pelvis, or chest. (references)

The two lungs fill most of the chest cavity. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malawi

One student protestor was shot in the chest and later died in the hospital; a bystander also was hospitalized after a bullet grazed his neck. (references)

Tunisia

The police instructed her to leave; however, when she turned the car around 10 police officers surrounded the car, shouted at her, kicked the car, and beat her on the head, neck, and chest. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The U.S. government does not initiate soft loan financing, and although the U.S. Eximbank offers "matching" soft loans from its "war chest," Indonesia almost never has accepted offers that would displace other donor commitment made through the annual World Bank-sponsored Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI). (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Police reportedly fired two shots, fatally wounding Stanton in the chest and side. (references)

Guyana

Gonsalves was said to have sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and stomach. (references)

South Africa

Later the same day, Sydney Mnukwa, an ANC member and a taxi owner, was shot in the chest and killed in Philippi. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "chest": ammunition chest ♦ beat one's chest ♦ Bomb chest ♦ cavity of the chest ♦ cedar chest ♦ Chest cavity ♦ chest cold ♦ chest expander ♦ Chest founder ♦ chest hair ♦ chest measurement ♦ chest microphone ♦ chest note ♦ chest of drawers ♦ chest pack ♦ chest pain ♦ chest protector ♦ chest register ♦ chest size ♦ chest Springs ♦ chest tone ♦ chest trouble ♦ Chest Tubes ♦ chest voice ♦ chest wall ♦ cold on the chest ♦ community chest ♦ depth of chest ♦ family medicine chest ♦ female chest ♦ Flail Chest ♦ Funnel Chest ♦ get a load off one's chest ♦ get smth. off one's chest ♦ have a weak chest ♦ hope chest ♦ ice chest ♦ let off one's chest ♦ Limber box or chest ♦ Limber chest ♦ male chest ♦ Mass Chest X-Ray ♦ medicinal chest ♦ medicine chest ♦ pix chest ♦ play cards close to one's chest ♦ play close to one's chest ♦ pulp chest ♦ pyx chest ♦ right in the chest ♦ right on the chest ♦ sea chest ♦ shoemaker's chest ♦ slop chest ♦ spasm of the chest ♦ steam chest ♦ stick out one's chest ♦ strong chest ♦ stuff chest ♦ take a load off one's chest ♦ tea chest ♦ throw out one's chest ♦ tool chest ♦ toy chest ♦ treasure chest ♦ valve chest ♦ war chest ♦ water on the chest ♦ wedding chest ♦ wind chest. Additional references.

Beginning with "chest": chest-beating, chest-bone, chest-brace, chest-burster, chest-contouring, chest-deep, chest-disease, chest-flexing, chest-hair, chest-height, chest-high, chest-'in, chest-level, chest-mike, chest-of-drawers, chest-on-chest, chest-ornaments, chest-pod, chest-prodding, chest-register, chest-tearing, chest-top, chest-veins.

Ending with "chest": tea-chest, treasure-chest.

Containing "chest": tea-chest-sized.

Afrikaans

bors (bosom, breast). (various references)

Albanian

sënduk (box, coffer, hutch, trunk), kraharor (bosom, breast, heart, thorax), gjoks (bosom, breast, heart, thorax), gji (bay, bight, boob, bosom, bowels, breast, entrails, gulf, inlet, milk, womb), arkë (box, box office, case, cash desk, cash register, cashbox, checkout, coffer, crate, hutch). (various references)

Arabic 

صدر (beginning, breast, part, to originate), ‏كلكل, ‏قفص صدري (thoracic cavity, thorax), ‏قفص (cage, coop, crate, pen), ‏وعاء محكم, ‏صندوق (ark, bin, box, case, container, crate, fund, hutch, kitty, locker, rack, receiver, till), ‏صدر (breast, forehead, thorax), ‏خزانة الدولة (exchequer, fisc, treasury), ‏أموال الخزينة. (various references)

Asturian

pechu. (various references)

Aymara

ñuñu. (various references)

Basque

kaxa (case). (various references)

Bemba

icifuba. (various references)

Blackfoot

máókayis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сандък (bin, box, case, coffer, crib, hutch, packing case), каса (case, cash desk, cheek, coffer, exchequer, packing case, pay desk, pay office), гръден кош (breast, thorax). (various references)

Cebuano

dughan. (various references)

Chamorro

pecho. (various references)

Chinese 

胸部 , 胸膛 , 胸口, 胸 (bosom, heart, mind, thorax), 膛 (hollow space, throat), 脯 (candied fruit), 箱 (box, trunk), 匈 (a fold, circle, enclose, Hungary, loop, pen, ring, thorax, to confine). (various references)

Cornish

bryansen. (various references)

Czech

truhla (coffer), hrudník (thorax), hruï, bedna (bin, box, case, container, crate, goggle box). (various references)

Danish

kiste (box), bryst (bosom, breast). (various references)

Dutch

borst (bosom, breast, teat, youngster, youth), ladenkast (cabinet, dresser), Kist (box, coffin), boezem (bosom, breast, golf, gulf). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

pichu. (various references)

Esperanto

torako, komodo (dresser), kesto (box), brusto (bosom, breast). (various references)

Faeroese

bringa (bosom, breast). (various references)

Farsi 

یخدان , قفسه سینه (Kist, Ribcage), تابوت (Cassette, Coffin), صندوق (Bin, Box, Case, Coffer, Trunk), خزانه داری (Exchequer, Treasury), جعبه (Box, Case). (various references)

Finnish

rinta (bosom, breast, instep), laatikko (box, case, casserole, crate, drawer), arkku (caisson, coffin, locker, trunk). (various references)

French

poitrine, coffre (china closet), caisse (check-out), sein, commode (chest of drawers). (various references)

Frisian

liif (abdomen, belly, body, tummy), kiste (box), boarstkast, boarst (bosom, breast). (various references)

German

Brust (boob, bosom, breast, teat), kasten (barn, barrack, bin, box, cabinet, case, castes, coffer, crate, drawer, goal, heavyweight, hutch, showcase, tub), Kiste (box, bus, case, contraption, crate, crock, hutch, jalopy, packing case, sack, tub), truhe (box, cabinet, coffer, console, footlocker), Lade (ark, drawer), Koffer (bag, bags, case, suitcase, trunk, trunks). (various references)

Greek 

μπαούλο (trunk). (various references)

Hawaiian

gji (bosom, breast). (various references)

Hebrew 

תבה (box, case, crate, tidy), קמטר, חזה (bosom, breast, thorax), ארגז (box, case, crate), גלוסקמה (box, coffin, ossuary, sarcophagus), גניזה (archives, hiding, storage), בית החזה (thorax). (various references)

Hungarian

mellkas (bosom, breast, bust, thorax), láda (bin, boot, box, case, crate, hutch), szekrény (armoire, body, cabinet, case, closet, cupboard, press, sideboard, wardrobe), pénztár (cash desk, checkout, coffers, desk, pay desk, pay office). (various references)

Indonesian

peti (box, case, hutch, kit, quod, trunk), dada (bossom, breast, thorax). (various references)

Inuktitut

saa (plate). (various references)

Irish

cliabh (basket), ciste (box, chest; treasure), chliabhrach, cófra (box), araid (box). (various references)

Italian

torace (breast, thorax), petto (bosom, breast), cassapanca (footlocker, settle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胸部　 (breast), 胸部 (breast), 胸郭 (thorax), 胸間 (breast), 胸座 (collar, lapels), 胸板 (breast), 胸　 (breast), 胸倉 (collar, lapels), 胸先 (breast), 胸 (breast), 匱 (coffer, rice tub). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうぶ (breast, isthmus), きょうかん (assassin, between the mountains, breast, ferocity, heinousness, instructor, mirror, one's hometown, outlaw, paragon, professor, response, scream, shout, sympathy, teacher, villain), きょうかく (chivalrous person, intimidation, self-styled humanitarian, thorax, threat), ひつ (coffer, head, rice tub, roll of cloth, small animal counter), むなぐら (collar, lapels), むなさき (breast), むないた (breast), むね (breast, instructions, principle, purport, ridge, thinking, will), き (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chronicle, coffer, crude, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, raw, rest against, rice tub, rule, season, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, wood, yellow). (various references)

Kongo

ntulu. (various references)

Korean 

가슴 (Bosom, gown). (various references)

Macedonian

gradi (to build). (various references)

Malay

dada (bosom, breast). (various references)

Manx

kishtey (box, box container, carton, case, casket, cist, crate, pot, pyx, rock pool, suitcase, trunk). (various references)

Maori

poho. (various references)

Maya

tzeem, ba'as. (various references)

Norwegian

bryst (bosom, breast). (various references)

Occitan

caissa (case). (various references)

Papago

bahsho. (various references)

Papiamen

caha (box), pechu (bosom, breast). (various references)

Pig Latin

estchay.(various references)

Polish

słabo (box, lightly, weakly). (various references)

Portuguese

peito (ash-bin, bosom, breast, bust, heart, mamma, momma), tórax (ash-bin, bosom, breast), caixa (ash-box, bank window, bin, box, bunker, cage, case, cash keeper, cashier, cashier's stand, coalscuttle, coffer, desk, fund, hutch, jug, kit, money box, pay-box, receiver, safe, sheath, teller, treasurer, vessel, writing-table), baú (box, trunk), arca (ark, ash-bin, bin, box, coffer, hutch, trunk). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

peito. (various references)

Provencal

pièch. (various references)

Romanian

piept (bosom, breast, brisket, bust, heart). (various references)

Romansch

pèz. (various references)

Romany

gyoosì. (various references)

Ruanda

igikirizwa. (various references)

Russian 

сундук (box, dower-chest), ящик;грудь грудной, ящик (ark, ash bin, ash-bin, bin, box, cage, case, packing case, receptacle), грудь (bosom, breast), грудная клетка (thoraces, thorax). (various references)

Samoan

fatafata. (various references)

Scottish

ciste (box, coffin). (various references)

Sepedi

sehuba. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sanduk (box, crate, hull, hutch, locker, trunk), ormar (cabinet, locker), orman (cabinet, cuddy, locker, wardrobe), kutija (box, receptacle), kovčeg (ark, ark of the covenant, casket, locker), grudi (bosom, breast, bust, dickey). (various references)

Shona

dundundu. (various references)

Spanish

pecho (bosom, breast), arca (ark, bin, box), caja (barrel, body, box, case, cash, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's stand, casing, checkbox, checkout, container, crate, cushion, drawer, fund, housing, jug, money box, money-box, pay office, paydesk, shaft, shell, slush fund, take, till, vessel, well), aparador (buffet, cupboard, dresser, sideboard). (various references)

Sranan

kisi (box, get, have, receive). (various references)

Swahili

kifua (bosom, breast). (various references)

Swazi

sí-fûba. (various references)

Swedish

kista (box, coffer, coffin), bröst (bosom, breast, breasts, bust, white meat), lår (bin, box, case, ham, haunch, thigh), låda (box, case, drawer, tray). (various references)

Tagalog

dibdíb. (various references)

Turkish

sandık (ark, box, coffer, crate, packing case, soapbox), kutu (bin, box, can, canned, carton, cartridge, case, cassette, coffer, repository), kasa (case, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's desk, cashier's office, casing, coffer, crate, desk, Peter, register, safe, strongbox, till, vaulting horse), göğüs kafesi (rib cage, thorax), göğüs (booby, bosom, breast, bust, mammillary, mammo-, pectoral, thorax). (various references)

Turkmen 

sandyk (hope chest), kьkrek. (various references)

Ukrainian

ящик (ark, box, cabinet, case, coffer), скриня (bin, box, case, hutch, pocket), фонд (bank, fond, fund, stock), казна (coffers, exchequer, treasury), класти в ящик (case), класти в домовину, грудна клітка (breastbone, thorax), груди (breast, bust), домовина (coffin). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tủ, rương (saratoga, trunk), hòm (ark, case). (various references)

Welsh

coffr (coffer, trunk), cist (bin, box, coffer), dwyfron (breast), brest (breast). (various references)

Yucatec

iim (bosom, breast, teat, udder). (various references)

Zulu

isifuba. (various references)

na. (various references)

kiste, stethos, thesauros. (various references)

arca, arca archa, arcad, arcae, arcam, arcaque, archad, arcis, armarium, scrinium, thorax. (various references)

breost. (various references)

hutica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "chest": chested, chesterfield, chesterfields, chestful, chestfuls, chestier, chestiest, chestnut, chestnuts, chests, chesty. (additional references)

Words ending with "chest": gauchest, richest, stanchest, staunchest. (additional references)

Words containing "chest": orchestra, orchestral, orchestrally, orchestras, orchestrate, orchestrated, orchestrater, orchestraters, orchestrates, orchestrating, orchestration, orchestrational, orchestrations, orchestrator, orchestrators, overorchestrate, overorchestrated, overorchestrates, overorchestrating, reorchestrate, reorchestrated, reorchestrates, reorchestrating, reorchestration, reorchestrations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceest, Cest, cesti, Chalst, Chasty, cheast, chebs, chees, cheet, cheist, chese, chesh, chesst, chessy, chestid, chestok, chet, chett, Chetta, cheze, chhet, chiast, chiest, chirst, chist, chs, chse, chsrt, chust, ciest, Gheest, hcset, Kest, Khestov, Ochetto. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: etch, eths, hest, hets, sect.

-2 letters: eth, hes, het, sec, set, she, the.

-3 letters: eh, es, et, he, sh.

+1 letter: chaste, cheats, cherts, chests, chesty, cheths, chutes, etches, ethics, itches, sachet, scathe, scythe, sketch, stench, taches, tusche, wechts.

+2 letters: achiest, aitches, batches, bitches, botches, butches, cachets, catches, chalets, chasten, chaster, chemist, chested, chetahs, chicest, cithers, clothes, cutches, ditches, escheat, etchers, ethnics, fetches, fitches, hatches, hectors, hepcats, hitches, hotches, hutches, ketches, latches, letches, matches, mutches, notches, patches, pitches, pschent, rachets, ratches, retches, richest, rochets, rotches, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, scythed, scythes, sketchy, stenchy, sthenic, stretch, teaches, techies, tenches, tochers, torches, touches, troches, tusches, vetches, watches, witches.