heart

  • 41heart*/*/*/ — [hɑːt] noun 1) [C] the organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body I could hear his heart beating.[/ex] Did you know he had a weak heart?[/ex] 2) [C] your feelings when they are considered as part of your character You have to do what… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 42heart — noun 1》 a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. 2》 the central, innermost, or vital part of something. 3》 a conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 43heart —    In some contexts, ‘heart’ is a synonym for ‘inmost being, soul’, as in a sentence like: ‘He poured out his heart to her.’ ‘My heart’, therefore, used as a vocative to a loved one, is the equivalent of ‘my soul, my life’. ‘Do stop, Crystal, my… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 44heart — see absence makes the heart grow fonder cold hands, warm heart what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over faint heart never won fair lady out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks home is where th …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 45heart — I. noun Etymology: Middle English hert, from Old English heorte; akin to Old High German herza heart, Latin cord , cor, Greek kardia Date: before 12th century 1. a. a hollow muscular organ of vertebrate animals that by its rhythmic contraction… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 46Heart —    According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life. Heart and soul are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5; 26:16; comp. Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33), but this is not… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 47heart — Frequently used in both OT and NT, but rarely in the physiological sense, since the Hebrews were unaware of its function; but its importance was recognized, and so it acquired a metaphorical sense for what is dearest and best a ‘clean heart’… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 48heart — noun 1) he poured out his heart Syn: emotions, feelings, sentiments, soul, mind 2) he has no heart Syn: compassion, sympathy, humanity, feeling(s), empathy, understanding …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 49heart — A hollow muscular organ that receives the blood from the veins and propels it into the arteries. In mammals it is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves right or venous and left or arterial each of which consists of a receiving… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 50heart —   Pu uwai; iho (as of celery, core); i o (as of wood, central part); haka (in deck of cards). Fig.: na au, loko, poli, umauma, manawa.   Also: pu u, pu u koko, mauli, ō ili. See apoplexy, heart ailment, heart attack, overwhelm.    ♦ Valve of the… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary