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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: hearts /hɑːts/ n - (functioning as singular) a card game in which players must avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
Also called: Black Maria
heart /hɑrt/USA pronunciation n. - Anatomy[countable] a muscular organ in humans and many animals that receives blood from the veins and pumps it through the arteries to other parts of the body.
- the center of a person's total personality, esp. of a person's intuition or sensibilities:[countable]In your heart you know it's true.
- capacity for sympathy;
feeling;
affection:[countable* usually singular]a very hard heart (= not having sympathy). His heart moved him to help the needy. - [uncountable] spirit, courage, or enthusiasm:no longer had the heart to argue.See take heart below.
- the innermost or central part of anything:[countable* usually singular]We marched through the heart of town.
- the essential part;
core:[countable]Let's get to the heart of the matter. - [countable] a shape with rounded sides meeting in a point at the bottom and curving inward to a cusp at the top.
- Games[countable] a card of the suit that has such a shape as the symbol of the suit.
- Games hearts:
- the suit of cards so marked.
- [uncountable* used with a singular verb] a game in which the players try to take all the hearts, or to avoid taking any of them.
Idioms- Idioms after one's own heart, agreeing with one's likes or one's preference:a girl after his own heart.
- Idioms at heart, in reality;
basically:very kind at heart. - Idioms break someone's heart, to cause someone to be deeply unhappy.
- Idioms by heart, entirely from memory:recited the entire poem by heart.
- Idioms eat one's heart out, to be very sorry about something;
grieve:I'm eating my heart out over losing you. - Idioms from (the bottom of ) one's heart, with complete sincerity:I wished her success from the bottom of my heart.
- Idioms have a heart, to show compassion and mercy:Have a heart and set the caged bird free.
- Idioms have one's heart in one's mouth, to be extremely anxious or fearful:My heart was in my mouth when I got up to speak to the crowd.
- Idioms have one's heart in the right place, to wish to do the proper thing:Yes, he's made mistakes, but his heart is in the right place.
- Idioms in one's heart of hearts, in one's private thoughts or feelings:In your heart of hearts you know she's the best for the job.
- Idioms lose one's heart to, [ ~ + obj] to fall in love with.
- Idioms near or close to one's heart, of great interest or concern to one:a project very close to her heart.
- Idioms set one's heart at rest, to banish one's fears or anxieties:The good economic news set the president's heart at rest.
- Idioms set one's heart on or have one's heart set on, [ ~ + obj] to want (something) a great deal:He set his heart on going to Tanzania. He had his heart set on that job.
- Idioms take heart, [no obj] to regain one's courage or confidence:He took heart when things began to improve.
- Idioms take to heart:
- to consider seriously;
to be affected deeply by: [~ + to heart + object]He took to heart most of her comments.[~ + object + to heart]He took it to heart. - to grieve over: [~ + object + to heart]He took the loss to heart.[~ + to heart + object]He took to heart her sudden death.
- Idioms to one's heart's content, for as long as one wishes:The children played to their heart's content.
- Idioms wear one's heart on one's sleeve, to allow one's feelings, esp. of love, to show.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024heart (härt),USA pronunciation n. - Anatomya hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- Zoology
- the homologous structure in other vertebrates, consisting of four chambers in mammals and birds and three chambers in reptiles and amphibians.
- the analogous contractile structure in invertebrate animals, as the tubular heart of the spider and earthworm.
- the center of the total personality, esp. with reference to intuition, feeling, or emotion:In your heart you know I'm an honest man.
- the center of emotion, esp. as contrasted to the head as the center of the intellect:His head told him not to fall in love, but his heart had the final say.
- capacity for sympathy;
feeling;
affection:His heart moved him to help the needy. - spirit, courage, or enthusiasm:His heart sank when he walked into the room and saw their gloomy faces.
- the innermost or central part of anything:Notre Dame stands in the very heart of Paris.
- the vital or essential part;
core:the heart of the matter. - the breast or bosom:to clasp a person to one's heart.
- a person (used esp. in expressions of praise or affection):dear heart.
- a conventional shape with rounded sides meeting in a point at the bottom and curving inward to a cusp at the top.
- Gamesa red figure or pip of this shape on a playing card.
- Gamesa card of the suit bearing such figures.
- Games hearts:
- (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the suit so marked:Hearts is trump. Hearts are trump.
- (used with a sing. v.) a game in which the players try to avoid taking tricks containing this suit.
- Botanythe core of a tree;
the solid central part without sap or albumen. - Geneticsgood condition for production, growth, etc., as of land or crops.
- TextilesAlso called core. [Ropemaking.]a strand running through the center of a rope, the other strands being laid around it.
- Idioms after one's own heart, in keeping with one's taste or preference:There's a man after my own heart!
- Idioms at heart, in reality;
fundamentally;
basically:At heart she is a romantic. - Idioms break someone's heart, to cause someone great disappointment or sorrow, as to disappoint in love:The news that their son had been arrested broke their hearts.
- Idioms by heart, by memory;
word-for-word:They knew the song by heart. - Idioms cross one's heart, to maintain the truth of one's statement;
affirm one's integrity:That's exactly what they told me, I cross my heart! - Idioms do someone's heart good, to give happiness or pleasure to;
delight:It does my heart good to see you again. - Idioms eat one's heart out, to have sorrow or longing dominate one's emotions;
grieve inconsolably:The children are eating their hearts out over their lost dog. - Idioms from the bottom of one's heart, with complete sincerity. Also, from one's heart, from the heart.
- Idioms have a heart, to be compassionate or merciful:Please have a heart and give her another chance.
- Idioms have at heart, to have as an object, aim, or desire:to have another's best interests at heart.
- Idioms have one's heart in one's mouth, to be very anxious or fearful:He wanted to do the courageous thing, but his heart was in his mouth.
- Idioms have one's heart in the right place, to be fundamentally kind, generous, or well-intentioned:The old gentleman may have a stern manner, but his heart is in the right place.
- Idioms heart and soul, enthusiastically;
fervently;
completely:They entered heart and soul into the spirit of the holiday. - Idioms in one's heart of hearts, in one's private thoughts or feelings;
deep within one:He knew, in his heart of hearts, that the news would be bad. - Idioms lose one's heart to, to fall in love with:He lost his heart to the prima ballerina.
- Idioms near one's heart, of great interest or concern to one:It is a cause that is very near his heart.Also, close to one's heart.
- Idioms not have the heart, to lack the necessary courage or callousness to do something:No one had the heart to tell him he was through as an actor.
- Idioms set one's heart against, to be unalterably opposed to:She had set her heart against selling the statue.Also, have one's heart set against.
- Idioms set one's heart at rest, to dismiss one's anxieties:She couldn't set her heart at rest until she knew he had returned safely.
- Idioms set one's heart on, to wish for intensely;
determine on:She has set her heart on going to Europe after graduation.Also, have one's heart set on. - Idioms take heart, to regain one's courage;
become heartened:Her son's death was a great blow, but she eventually took heart, convinced that God had willed it. - Idioms take or lay to heart:
- to think seriously about;
concern oneself with:He took to heart his father's advice. - to be deeply affected by;
grieve over:She was prone to take criticism too much to heart.
- Idioms to one's heart's content, until one is satisfied;
as much or as long as one wishes:The children played in the snow to their heart's content. - Idioms wear one's heart on one's sleeve:
- to make one's intimate feelings or personal affairs known to all:She was not the kind who would wear her heart on her sleeve.
- to be liable to fall in love;
fall in love easily:How lovely to be young and wear our hearts on our sleeves!
- Idioms with all one's heart:
- with earnestness or zeal.
- with willingness;
cordially:She welcomed the visitors with all her heart.
v.t. - [Archaic.]
- to fix in the heart.
- to encourage.
- bef. 900; Middle English herte, Old English heorte; cognate with Dutch hart, German Herz, Old Norse hjarta, Gothic hairtō; akin to Latin cor (see cordial, courage), Greek kardía (see cardio-)
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