Beast vs. Breast

Beast vs. Breast — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Beast and Breast

Beastnoun

Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.

Breastnoun

(anatomy) 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.

Tanya's breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.

Beastnoun

(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.

Breastnoun

(anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.

Beastnoun

A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.

Breastnoun

A section of clothing covering the breast area.

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Beastnoun

(slang) A large or impressive thing or structure.

That is a beast of a stadium.The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.

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.

Beastnoun

(slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.

Breastnoun

The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

The robin has a red breast.

Beastnoun

A sex offender.

Breastnoun

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.

Would you like breast or wing?
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Beastnoun

(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.

Breastnoun

The front or forward part of anything.

a chimney breast; a plough breast

Beastnoun

A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.

Breastnoun

(mining) The face of a coal working.

Beastverb

to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

Breastnoun

(mining) The front of a furnace.

Beastadjective

(slang) great; excellent; powerful

Breastnoun

(obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.

Beastnoun

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Breastverb

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

He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.

Beastnoun

a cruelly rapacious person

Breastnoun

the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen;

he beat his breast in anger

Breastnoun

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

Breastnoun

meat carved from the breast of a fowl

Breastverb

meet at breast level;

The runner breasted the tape

Breastverb

reach the summit;

They breasted the mountain

Breastverb

confront bodily;

breast the storm