The difference between Breast and Wing

When used as nouns, breast means either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands, whereas wing means an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

When used as verbs, breast means to push against with the breast, whereas wing means to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

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  1. Breast as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "Tanya's breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy."

  2. Breast as a noun (anatomy):

    The chest, or front of the human thorax.

  3. Breast as a noun:

    A section of clothing covering the breast area.

  4. Breast as a noun:

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

    Examples:

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

  5. Breast as a noun:

    The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

    Examples:

    "The robin has a red breast."

  6. Breast as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "Would you like breast or wing?"

  7. Breast as a noun:

    The front or forward part of anything.

    Examples:

    "a chimney breast; a plough breast'"

  8. Breast as a noun (mining):

    The face of a coal working.

  9. Breast as a noun (mining):

    The front of a furnace.

  10. Breast as a noun (obsolete):

    The power of singing; a musical voice.

  1. Breast as a verb (transitive, often, figurative):

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

    Examples:

    "He breasted the hill and saw the town before him."

  1. Wing as a noun:

    An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish

  2. Wing as a noun (slang):

    Human arm.

  3. Wing as a noun (aviation):

    Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

  4. Wing as a noun:

    One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

  5. Wing as a noun:

    One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

  6. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

  7. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

  8. Wing as a noun:

    A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

  9. Wing as a noun:

    Passage by flying; flight.

    Examples:

    "to take wing"

  10. Wing as a noun:

    Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

  11. Wing as a noun:

    A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

    Examples:

    "the west wing of the hospital"

    "the wings of a corkscrew"

  12. Wing as a noun:

    Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

  13. Wing as a noun:

    An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

  14. Wing as a noun:

    A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.

  15. Wing as a noun:

    A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

  16. Wing as a noun (British):

    An organizational grouping in a military aviation service: A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station. A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

  17. Wing as a noun (British):

    A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

  18. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

  19. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

    Examples:

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  20. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A position in several field games on either side of the field.

  21. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

  22. Wing as a noun (typography, informal, rare):

    A .

  23. Wing as a noun (theater):

    One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.

  24. Wing as a noun (in the plural):

    The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.

  25. Wing as a noun:

    A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.

  26. Wing as a noun:

    On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

    Examples:

    "Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing."

  1. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

  2. Wing as a verb (intransitive):

    To fly.

  3. Wing as a verb (transitive, of a building):

    To add a wing (extra part) to.

  4. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

  5. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To throw.

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