breast

«breast» in Mova's school dictionary: One of the two soft round parts on the front of a woman's… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a breast, breasts); verb (breast — formal or literary)

meaning for a pupil

1) One of the two soft round parts on the front of a woman's chest that can make milk to feed a baby. tree →

2) The front of the chest of a person or animal. tree →

3) (cooking) The meat from the chest of a bird, like chicken breast. tree →

4) (literary) The heart, as a place of feelings ("hope in his breast"). tree →

5) (verb) To reach the top of a hill or push through something with your chest. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science and health lessons (mammals feed babies breast milk), cooking (chicken breast), swimming (breaststroke) and old stories and poems for the chest or heart. Phrases: breastfeed, breaststroke, chicken breast, robin redbreast, make a clean breast of it (confess everything).

examples

• Mammals feed their babies with milk from the breast. tree →
• We had chicken breast with vegetables for tea. tree →
• The robin has a red breast. tree →
• I learned breaststroke at swimming lessons. tree →
• She held the kitten to her breast. tree →
• He decided to make a clean breast of it and tell the truth. tree →
• The runners breasted the hill and saw the finish line. tree →
• An arrow stuck in his breast! tree →

note

Countable: breasts. Pronounced BREST (rhymes with rest). A normal science and body word, not rude; use it calmly and correctly. Idiom "make a clean breast of it" = confess everything.

In the corpora

• Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.
• Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle.
• A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.
• And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
• And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «breast» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.