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Chest vs Chert - What's the difference?

chest | chert |

As nouns the difference between chest and chert

is that chest is a box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid while chert is massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

As a verb chest

is to hit with one's chest (front of one's body.

chest

English

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Etymology 1

From (etyl) cheste, chiste, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • (lb) A coffin.
  • The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
  • :
  • 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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  • Synonyms
    * (the thorax) breast * (box) trunk
    Derived 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 chest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 23 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom , work=BBC 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. }}
  • To deposit in a chest.
  • (obsolete) To place in a coffin.
  • * Bible, Genesis 1. 26
  • He dieth and is chested .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
  • chert

    English

    Noun

  • (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
  • (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.

    See also

    * chalcedony * flint * jasper * quartzite * silicate

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