chest
♦ chest /tʃ'est/ (chests)
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N
Your chest is the top part of the front of your body where your ribs, lungs, and heart are.
He crossed his arms over his chest...
He was shot in the chest...
He complained of chest pain.
2 [N-COUNT]
A chest is a large, heavy box used for storing things.
At the very bottom of the chest were his carving tools.
...a treasure chest.
...a medicine chest.
= trunk
3 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you get something off your chest, you talk about something that has been worrying you.
I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.
≠ bottle upchest of drawers (chests of drawers)
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A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.tea chest (tea chests)
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A tea chest is a large wooden box in which tea is packed when it is exported. People also use tea chests for putting things in when they move from one house to another. (BRIT)treas|ure chest (treasure chests)
1 [N-COUNT]
A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
2 [N-COUNT] usu N of n
If you describe something as a treasure chest of a particular thing, you mean that it is very good source of that thing.
This book is a treasure chest of information.war chest (war chests)
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A war chest is a fund to finance a project such as a political campaign.
Governor Caperton has the largest campaign war chest.
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N
Your chest is the top part of the front of your body where your ribs, lungs, and heart are.
He crossed his arms over his chest...
He was shot in the chest...
He complained of chest pain.
2 [N-COUNT]
A chest is a large, heavy box used for storing things.
At the very bottom of the chest were his carving tools.
...a treasure chest.
...a medicine chest.
= trunk
3 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you get something off your chest, you talk about something that has been worrying you.
I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.
≠ bottle upchest of drawers (chests of drawers)
[N-COUNT]
A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.tea chest (tea chests)
[N-COUNT]
A tea chest is a large wooden box in which tea is packed when it is exported. People also use tea chests for putting things in when they move from one house to another. (BRIT)treas|ure chest (treasure chests)
1 [N-COUNT]
A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
2 [N-COUNT] usu N of n
If you describe something as a treasure chest of a particular thing, you mean that it is very good source of that thing.
This book is a treasure chest of information.war chest (war chests)
[N-COUNT]
A war chest is a fund to finance a project such as a political campaign.
Governor Caperton has the largest campaign war chest.