What Is Chest

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A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is an open air or covered location for gymnastics, athletics, and gymnastic services. The word is derived from the ancient Greek gymnasium.[1] They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centers, and as activity and learning spaces in educational institutions. "Gym" is also slang for "fitness center", which is often an indoor facility.

What Is Chest:

1.

Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.

2.

a box, usually with a lid, for storage, safekeeping of valuables, etc.:

a toy chest; a jewelry chest.

3.

the place where the funds of a public institution or charitable organization are kept; treasury; coffer.

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4.

the funds themselves.

5.

a box in which certain goods, as tea, are packed for transit.

6.

the quantity contained in such a box:

a chest of spices.

7.

chest of drawers.

Idioms

9.

get (something) off one's chest, Informal. to relieve oneself of (problems, troubling thoughts, etc.) by revealing them to someone.

10.

play it close to the chest. vest (def 16).

Origin of chest Expand

Middle EnglishOld EnglishLatinGreek

900before 900; Middle English; Old English cest, cist < Latin cista < Greek kístē box

Related forms Expand

chestful  [chest-foo l] (Show IPA), noun

Can be confused Expand

celibate, chased, chaste, chest.

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Examples from the Web for chest Expand

Contemporary Examples

At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.

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January 7, 2015 

Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

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Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.

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Ian Frisch 

December 20, 2014 

I received many bruises on my collarbones, neck, chest, and shoulders.

Beaten By His Church for Being Gay 

Justin Jones 

December 16, 2014 

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

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Historical Examples

He had ample girth of chest at the cinches, where lung capacity is best measured.

Way of the Lawless 

Max Brand 

Winkleman puffed out his chest and protruded his great beard.

The Leopard Woman 

Stewart Edward White 

"Kill me, Managa," I cried, smiting my chest as I stood facing him.

Green Mansions 

W. H. Hudson 

They had evidently just landed, and two men were lifting out a chest from the boat.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates 

Howard Pyle 

It lay untouched in the bottom of his chest, sailor-fashion.

Ned Myers 

James Fenimore Cooper 

British Dictionary definitions for chest Expand

chest

/tʃɛst/

noun

1.

the front part of the trunk from the neck to the belly related adjective pectoral

(as modifier): a chest cold

2.

(informal) get something off one's chest, to unburden oneself of troubles, worries, etc, by talking about them

3.

a box, usually large and sturdy, used for storage or shipping: a tea chest

4.

Also chestful. the quantity a chest holds

5.

(rare)

the place in which a public or charitable institution deposits its funds

the funds so deposited

6.

a sealed container or reservoir for a gas: a wind chest, a steam chest

Derived Forms

chested, adjective

Word Origin

Old English cest, from Latin cista wooden box, basket, from Greek kistē box

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Word Origin and History for chest Expand

n.

Old English cest "box, coffer, casket," from Proto-Germanic *kista (cf. Old Norse and Old High German kista, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, German kiste, Dutch kist), an early borrowing from Latin cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1520s, replacing breast (n.), on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs. Chest of drawers is from 1590s.

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chest in Medicine Expand

chest (chěst) 

n. 

The part of the body between the neck and the abdomen, enclosed by the ribs and the breastbone; thorax.

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Slang definitions & phrases for chest Expand

chest

Related Terms

play close to the chest

The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.

Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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