Definitions for breast
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. breast, chestnoun

   the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

   "he beat his breast in anger"

2. breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, tittynoun

   either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

3. breast, white meatnoun

   meat carved from the breast of a fowl

4. breastverb

   the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest

5. breastverb

   meet at breast level

   "The runner breasted the tape"

6. summit, breastverb

   reach the summit (of a mountain)

   "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

7. front, breastverb

   confront bodily

   "breast the storm"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. breastnoun

   Either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in men.

   Tanya's breasts grew alarmingly during pregnancy.

2. breastnoun

   The chest, or front of the human thorax.

3. breastnoun

   A section of clothing covering the breast area.

4. breastnoun

   The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.

   She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.

5. breastnoun

   The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

   The robin has a red breast.

6. breastnoun

   A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird's breast.

   Would you like breast or wing?

7. breastverb

   To push against with the breast; to meet full on, to oppose, to face.

   He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.

8. Etymology: From brest, from breost, from

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. BREASTnoun

   Etymology: breost, Saxon.

   1. The middle part of the human body, between the neck and the belly.2. The dugs or teats of women which contain the milk.

   The substance of the breasts is composed of a great number of glands, of an oval figure, which lie in a great quantity of fat. Their excretory ducts, as they approach the nipple, join and unite together, till at last they form seven, eight, or more, small pipes, called tubuli lactiferi, which have several cross canals, by which they communicate with one another, that if any of them be stopped, the milk, which was brought to it, might not stagnate, but pass through by the other pipes, which all terminate in the extremity of the nipple. They have arteries and veins from the subclavian and intercostal. They have nerves from the vertebral pairs, and from the sixth pair of the brain. Their use is to separate the milk for the nourishment of the fœtus. The tubes, which compose the glands of the breast in maids, like a sphincter muscle, contract so closely, that no part of the blood can enter them; but when the womb grows big with a fœtus, and compresses the descending trunk of the great artery, the blood flows in a greater quantity, and with a greater force, through the arteries of the breasts, and forces a passage into their glands, which, being at first narrow, admits only of a thin water; but growing wider by degrees, as the womb grows bigger, the glands receive a thick serum, and, after birth, they run with a thick milk; because that blood, which before did flow to the fœtus, and, for three or four days afterwards, by the uterus, beginning then to stop, does more dilate the mamillary glands. John Quincy.

   They pluck the fatherless from the breast. Job, xxiv. 9.

   3. The part of a beast that is under the neck, between the forelegs.4. The heart; the conscience; the disposition of the mind.

   Needless was written law, where none opprest;
   The law of man was written in his breast. John Dryden, Ovid.

   5. The passions; the regard.

   Margarita first possess’d,
   If I remember well, my breast. Abraham Cowley.

2. To Breastverb

   To meet in front; to oppose breast to breast.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The threaden sails
   Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,
   Breasting the lofty surge. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breastnoun

   the fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse

2. Breastnoun

   either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat

3. Breastnoun

   anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill

4. Breastnoun

   the face of a coal working

5. Breastnoun

   the front of a furnace

6. Breastnoun

   the seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart

7. Breastnoun

   the power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast

8. Breastverb

   to meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves

9. Breastnoun

   a torus

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breast

   The breast is the upper ventral region of the torso of a primate, in left and right sides, containing the mammary gland which in a female can secrete milk used to feed infants. Both men and women develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. However, at puberty, female sex hormones, mainly estrogen, promote breast development which does not occur in men due to the higher amount of testosterone. As a result, women's breasts become far more prominent than those of men. During pregnancy, the breast is responsive to a complex interplay of hormones that cause tissue development and enlargement in order to produce milk. Three such hormones are estrogen, progesterone and prolactin, which cause glandular tissue in the breast and the uterus to change during the menstrual cycle. Each breast contains 15–20 lobes. The subcutaneous adipose tissue covering the lobes gives the breast its size and shape. Each lobe is composed of many lobules, at the end of which are sacs where milk is produced in response to hormonal signals.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breast

   brest, n. the forepart of the human body between the neck and the belly: one of the two mammary glands in women, forming soft protuberances on the chest: the corresponding part of any animal: (fig.) conscience, disposition, affections.—v.t. to bear the breast against: to oppose manfully: to mount.—n. Breast′-bone, the bone running down the middle of the breast, to which the first seven ribs are attached.—adv. Breast′-deep, deep, as up to the breast.—adj. Breast′ed, having a breast.—adv. Breast′-high, high as the breast—ns. Breast′-knot, a knot of ribbons worn on the breast; Breast′pin, an ornamental pin for the breast; Breast′plate, a plate or piece of armour for the breast: (B.) an embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high-priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel; Breast′-plough, a kind of spade for cutting turf, with a cross-bar against which the breast is pressed; Breast′rail, the upper rail of a breastwork; Breast′summer, Bres′summer, a summer or beam supporting the whole front of a building in the same way as a lintel supports the portion over an opening; Breast′-wall, a retaining wall; Breast′-wheel, a water-wheel which is turned by water delivered upon it at about half its height; Breast′work, a hastily constructed earthwork.—To make a clean breast of, to make a full confession. [A.S. bréost; Ger. brust, Dut. borst.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breast

   In humans, one of the paired regions in the anterior portion of the THORAX. The breasts consist of the MAMMARY GLANDS, the SKIN, the MUSCLES, the ADIPOSE TISSUE, and the CONNECTIVE TISSUES.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. breast

   A element of a human body from the neck to the waist.

   Both males and females have breast, the difference is the female breast secretes milk.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020  

2. ---

   breast

   Female mammary glands.

   The female breast secretes milk when a woman is pregnant.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020  

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1. breast

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Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Breast

   the under surface of thorax or sternum.

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1. • Confront
   • Helping
   • Mamma
   • Meet

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breast' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4839

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breast' in Nouns Frequency: #1406

Anagrams for breast »

1. barest

2. baster

3. bestar

4. Tarbes

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of breast in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of breast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of breast in a Sentence

1. Armando Giuliano:

   Older women tend to have( slow-growing) breast cancers and more medical problems than younger women and very often they don’t die of breast cancer, frequently, they don’t get chemotherapy because they would n’t tolerate it, and they are going to get hormone treatment no matter what you find in the biopsy.

2. Matthew Schulman:

   This means that the new smaller breast will be lifted to a more youthful position and the areolas will be made smaller and positioned higher on the breast mound.

3. Rita Wilson:

   A friend who had had breast cancer suggested I get a second opinion on my pathology and my gut told me that was the thing to do.

4. Rahul Tendulkar:

   There are many different varieties of breast cancer and a lot of different factors that must be taken into consideration when coming up with a treatment plan for each individual.

5. Joe Scarborough:

   I know children are being ripped from their mother’s arms, even while they’re being breast-fed. I know children are being marched away to showers, marched away to showers. Being told they are — just like the Nazis — said that they were taking people to the showers and then they never came back, you think they would use another trick like' Hey, got a slurpee room over there.' ' We’re going to take them to get a slurpee,'.

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