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Chest vs Stomach - What's the difference?

chest | stomach |

In lang=en terms the difference between chest and stomach

is that chest is to deposit in a chest while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between chest and stomach

is that chest is (obsolete) to place in a coffin while stomach is (obsolete) appetite.

As nouns the difference between chest and stomach

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 stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

As verbs the difference between chest and stomach

is that chest is to hit with one's chest (front of one's body) while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

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.
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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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    • 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.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    stomach

    English

    (wikipedia stomach)

    Alternative forms

    * stomack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  • (informal) The belly.
  • (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
  • * 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:
    • He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;
  • * John Locke
    • This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
  • (obsolete) Appetite.
    • a good stomach for roast beef
  • *, II.ii.1.2:
    • If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:
    • You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.
  • (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
    • I have no stomach for a fight today.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:
    • That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:

    Synonyms

    * (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummy

    Derived terms

    * sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

    Descendants

    * stummy, tummy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
    • I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
    I can't stomach her cooking.
  • (obsolete) To be angry.
    • (Hooker)
  • (obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • * 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
    • O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
  • * Milton
    • The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.

    Derived terms

    * stomachable * unstomachable

    Anagrams

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