different between chest vs breastplate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ?est, ?ist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh? (“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)

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

4. A chest of drawers.
6. (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.

7. A hit or blow made with one's chest.

Synonyms

• (the thorax): breast
• (box): trunk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• chest down

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ??ast, ??as (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian k?se (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German k?sa (“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

Anagrams

• Tesch, chets, techs

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.

Pronoun

chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

1. this

See also

• chel

Ladin

Alternative forms

• chëst

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

1. this
2. (in the plural) these

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?east, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

• cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

chest (plural chestes)

2. fighting, strife, battle
3. 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.

4. (rare) turmoil, discord

Descendants

• English: chest

References

• “ch?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

Etymology 2

From Old French geste.

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

From Old English ?est.

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French

Adjective

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

chest

1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English brestplate, equivalent to breast +? plate. Displaced Old English br?ostbeorg.

Noun

breastplate (plural breastplates)

1. A piece of armor that covers the chest.
2. A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.

   Synonyms: breastcollar, breaststrap, breastgirth

3. A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
4. (Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.

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