different between breast vs thoracic

English

Alternative forms

• brest (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English brest, from Old English br?ost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breust?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?st, IPA^(key): /b??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: Brest

Noun

breast (plural breasts)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.

2. (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.

3. A section of clothing covering the breast area.
4. The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     […] Thou best know'st

     What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans

     Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts

     Of ever-angry bears— it was a torment

     To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax

     Could not again undo. It was mine art,

     When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape

     The pine and let thee out.

5. The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

6. A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.

7. The front or forward part of anything.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     Mountains on whose barren breast / The labouring clouds do often rest.
8. (mining) The face of a coal working.
9. (mining) The front of a furnace.
10. (obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.
    • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II scene iii^[3]:

      By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.

11. (swimming) the breaststroke

Synonyms

• (female organs): See also Thesaurus:breasts
• (chest): chest
• (seat of emotions): heart, soul
• (cut of poultry): white meat
• (cut of meat): brisket

Antonyms

• (cut of poultry): thigh, wing, dark meat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)

1. (transitive, often figuratively) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
2. To reach the top (of a hill).
3. (transitive, cooking) To debreast.
   • 2005, Texas Judicial Cookbook: Hello There!

     Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.

Translations

Anagrams

• Baster, Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, abrest, barest, baster, bestar, rebats, tabers

English

Alternative forms

• thoracick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (th?rakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from ????? (th?rax, “thorax”).

Adjective

thoracic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of the thorax.

Derived terms

Related terms

• thorax

Translations

Noun

thoracic (plural thoracics)

1. (zoology) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.

Anagrams

• trochaic

Interlingua

Noun

thoracic (uncountable)

1. thoracic (of the thorax)