Chest vs Biceps - What's the difference?
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A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) A coffin.
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
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A chest of drawers.
(senseid)(lb) 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.
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#A hit or blow made with one's chest.
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To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
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To deposit in a chest.
(obsolete) To place in a coffin.
* Bible, Genesis 1. 26
(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
* 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
* 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
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* 2005 , Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas? , page 144
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
* 1987 , Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre
* 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
As nouns the difference between chest and biceps
is that chest is a box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid or chest can be debate; quarrel; strife; enmity while biceps is biceps.As a verb chest
is to hit with one's chest (front of one's body).chest
English
{{ picdic , image=Chest.jpg , width=310 , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl) cheste, chiste, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (the thorax) breast * (box) trunkDerived terms
* bad chest * chest cavity * chest cold * chestless * chestlike * chest of drawers * chest pass * chestnut * chest wall * chesty * get off one’s chest * hope chest * keep one's cards close to one's chest * treasure chest * war chestVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net. }}
- He dieth and is chested .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from (etyl) .Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----biceps
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
- The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps .
- Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
- Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
- This means that in the metrical sequence