heart
/hɑːt
/- The valve that controls blood flow between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta.
- A murmur is the sound of blood being pumped through the heart's chambers and valves.
Synonyms
- Men remove their baseball caps, clamping hands on hearts and swelling their chests with pride.
- His knife was gleaming just above her heart, his hands poised to make the fatal move.
- Relatives greet each other with a gentle hug and a kiss on the left shoulder above the heart.
- Well-produced digital media gives us the chance to love God with our hearts and souls as well as our minds.
- You love to pour your heart and your art into making gifts with a personal punch.
- Our minds are to be as fully yielded to God and as actively engaged in loving Him as our hearts and souls are.
Synonyms
- We all move into the final phase of the campaign in good heart and cautiously confident of victory.
- Honey crop is taken once a year preferably, if bees are to be kept in good heart.
- Wanderers want to forget the Villa disappointment and go into the Fulham game in good heart.
Synonyms
- Abandoning pretty pictures, car chases and clichés is something to be applauded if it means films made with heart and soul.
- At first Stiles took heart; the film was good, she was proud of everybody's work and knew that some day people would get to see it.
- I took heart from this Easter post by Rebecca on the resurrection of Jesus.
Synonyms
- It is a central location in the heart of Saskatoon and it should be pretty easy to get to.
- The national capital is Mexico City, situated in the heart of central Mexico.
- In the heart of the vast central square of the place she caught sight of a recognizable object.
Synonyms
- It is not an image which instils much confidence in the future success of the vital relationship at the heart of government.
- At no stage was there any conversation of substance about the heart of the matter: what is the purpose of criminal justice.
- Either way, she just doesn't grasp the core principle at the heart of this entire matter.
Synonyms
- Others win because they simply save a lot of time: beans, roasted red peppers, roasted green chilies, and artichoke hearts and bottoms.
- Put in the artichoke hearts chopped roughly and add salt, pepper and sugar.
- From her ears now hung two earrings with stylized garnet hearts at the bottom of them.
- The last thing you find is a pair of earrings that have hearts dangling at the bottom.
- There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.
- The owner said they were arguing about which way the queen of hearts looks in a pack of cards.
- Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points.
- Then you play the three big hearts and after them, lead both of your trumps.
- People have worked out five-suit versions of other card games, including spades, bridge, hearts, and various types of solitaire.
- Suggestions from players of the game are that you should play the game like hearts, and others say you should play as normal whist, however both ideas have obvious problems.
- Thanks for all the reviews I heart you guys mucho!
- She is amazing and I heart her to the nth degree.
Phrases
after one's own heart
at heart
break someone's heart
by heart
close (or dear) to (or near) one's heart
the dead heart (also the dead centre)
the dry heart
from the (bottom of one's) heart
give (or lose) one's heart to
have a heart
have a heart of gold
have the heart to do something
have (or put) one's heart in
have one's heart in one's mouth
have one's heart in the right place
heart of stone
hearts and flowers
hearts and minds
one's heart's desire
one's heart goes out to
one's heart sinks
in one's heart of hearts
take something to heart
to one's heart's content (or delight)
wear one's heart on one's sleeve
with all one's heart (or one's whole heart)
heart to heart
Origin
Old English heorte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hart and German Herz, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cor, cord- and Greek kēr, kardia.
The Greek word kardia, from which English took cardiac (Late Middle English), is directly related to heart. The shared root existed before their ancestor developed into different language families in Europe, Asia, and northern India. Since Anglo-Saxon times people have regarded the heart as the centre of emotions and feelings. If you wear your heart on your sleeve, you make your feelings clear for all to see. In a television interview in 1987 the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher advised against it, saying: ‘To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.’ The phrase has its origins in chivalry. In the Middle Ages, when jousting was a popular form of entertainment, a knight would tie a favour to his sleeve—a ribbon, glove, or other small item belonging to the lady given as a sign of her love or support.