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UK
/tʃˈɛst/
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[ US /ˈtʃɛst/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɛst/ ]
NOUN
-
the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
he beat his breast in anger - the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy
How To Use chest In A Sentence
- I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- Manchester City have put themselves into a different stratosphere and a lot of players want to be part of that. Times, Sunday Times
- Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
- A view of the steam-chest side of the cylinder is given in Figure 323, and a horizontal cross section of the cylinder, the steam-chest and the valves, is shown in Figure 324. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
- I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
- Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.
- Manchester United are hoping to win the FA Cup this year.