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What is the noun for breast?

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breast
  1. Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
  2. The chest, or front of the human thorax.
  3. A section of clothing covering the breast area.
  4. The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
  5. The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.
  6. A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
  7. The front or forward part of anything.
  8. (mining) The face of a coal working.
  9. (mining) The front of a furnace.
  10. (obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.
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  12. Examples:
    1. “The 48-year-old patient has had a tumor on her left breast for several years.”
      “Something big and sad is happening, and I can feel it in my breast and in my head, but I know not what it is, or where it is, but I can feel it and I know it is there.”
      “The lowering sky was like a force bearing down on the breast of the city, and the wind, deathlike, did not stir.”
breastwork
  1. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
  2. (nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
  3. A parapet.
  4. (slang) Breast augmentation.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Everything the actor owned formed a crude breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step.”
      “It threaded through the hills which surrounded the Empire's capital like a huge, natural breastwork.”
      “Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door.”
breastplate
  1. A piece of armor that covers the chest.
  2. A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Like the jewels in the ephod and the breastplate, we are precious in the eyes of God the Father and of God the Son.”
      “I looked in, and there indeed did I behold the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate, as stated by the messenger.”
      “He turned his back to Hunter, showing his armor was a breastplate instead of a cuirass like Hunter wore.”
breastwheel
  1. A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
breastband
  1. (nautical) A band of canvas, attached to a ship's rigging, that provides support for the man heaving the lead in heavy weather.
breastknot
  1. A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament; a brooch.
breastfeeding
  1. The activity of feeding a baby or young child milk from the breast of a lactating woman.
breasting
  1. (engineering) The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
breastaurant
  1. A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras.”
breastpoint
  1. (rare) The place or point of a breast.
breastfeeder
  1. One who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).
  2. Synonyms:
breastful
  1. The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
breastlessness
  1. The condition of being breastless.
breaststrap
  1. A breastplate (horse tack)
breastrope
  1. (nautical) breastband
breasticle
  1. (slang) A breast.
breastie
  1. (Scotland) breast
breastfeedings
  1. plural of breastfeeding
breastaurants
  1. plural of breastaurant
breastfeeders
breastpoints
  1. plural of breastpoint
breastplates
  1. plural of breastplate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.”
      “He used tooled leather and real copper breastplates, contributing to a new tradition of metalwork.”
      “Vests and T-shirts bear prints of Japanese armour breastplates embellished with coloured jewels.”
breastwheels
  1. plural of breastwheel
breastbands
  1. plural of breastband
breastropes
  1. plural of breastrope
breastworks
  1. plural of breastwork
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable.”
      “From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.”
      “Behind these natural breastworks, the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen.”
breasticles
  1. plural of breasticle
  2. Examples:
    1. “But total kudos to the ladies who refer to them as breasticles, chesticles, babylons, bazookas, guzingas, bangers, noobies and, a possible winner, Michael Boobles.”
breastknots
  1. plural of breastknot
breastfuls
  1. plural of breastful
breastings
  1. plural of breasting
breasties
  1. plural of breastie
breasts
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