Meaning of heart | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
   countable, uncountable
3. heart (organ of the body)
4. In one's deepest feelings; fundamentally.
5. One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
   uncountable
6. emotions, kindness, spirit
7. Learned by rote; memorized word for word.
8. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
   countable, uncountable
9. the center of an object core (of a fruit) artichoke heart
10. To lift one's spirits; make one happy.
11. core (of a fruit)
12. Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
    countable, uncountable
13. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
    countable, uncountable
14. With the deepest appreciation; most sincerely.
15. artichoke heart
16. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
17. To be extremely frightened or anxious.
18. To be well-intentioned.
19. Memory.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
20. Completely; entirely.
21. A wight or being.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
22. In the seat of one's truest feelings.
23. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.
    countable, uncountable
24. To fall in love with.
25. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
    countable, uncountable
26. Loved by or important to one.
27. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
    countable, uncountable
28. The centre, essence, or core.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
29. The main fraction or product of a distillation run.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: […]”

“She has a cold heart.”

“In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.”

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“"Do what the heart commands," Tothero says. "The heart is our only guide."”

“a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart”

“Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.”

“Calm and deep peace in this wide air, ⁠These leaves that redden to the fall; ⁠And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair: […]”

“The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.”

“Eve, recovering heart, replied.”

“The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.”

“"We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.”

“The result still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip to face England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win in Bulgaria.”

“The heart from the home team was immense. Some of them were out on their feet before the end, but they dug in, throwing themselves in front of shots and crosses, surviving.”

“Both theſe unhappy Soils the Swain forbears, / And keeps a Sabbath of alternate Years: / That the ſpent Earth may gather heart again; / And, better'd by Ceſſation, bear the Grain.”

“Listen, dear heart, we must go now.”

“My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!”

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well./Awake.”

“Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.”

“I know almost every Beatles song by heart.”

“[…] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,[…]”

“"Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.”

“That is the heart of the matter”

“The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.”

“Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.”

“At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.”

“The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.”

“The heart of the modern city is T’ien-an-men Square, one of the largest — if not the largest — square in the world, created expressly in the Fifties on the ashes of the old “Tartar city,” an agglomeration of small and unassuming low grey houses, inhabited by the populace that was once excluded from the “Forbidden City.””

“Arcelia Silva Martinez: Watch out!/Arcelia Silva Martinez: We've got geth in the tower./Fai Dan: Protect the heart of the colony!”

“Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air.”

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