different between chest vs chert

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

Unknown.

Noun

chert (countable and uncountable, plural cherts)

1. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
2. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.

Usage notes

Generally, in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. In North American archeology the term chert occasionally is still used for various siliceous minerals (including flint) that have a conchoidal fracture; this leads to confusion between the terms flint and chert in some archeology texts.

Derived terms

• chertification
• chertified

Translations

See also

• chalcedony
• flint
• jasper
• quartzite
• silicate

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Chert”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “chert”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• retch

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?er?t/

Adjective

chert

1. Lenited form of cert.

Noun

chert

1. Lenited form of cert.