Definitions for heart

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heart heart

Spelling: [hahrt]

IPA: /hɑrt/

Heart is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in heart (aehrt).

Definitions for heart

noun

1. Anatomy. a 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.
2. 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.
3. the center of the total personality, especially with reference to intuition, feeling, or emotion:
4. the center of emotion, especially as contrasted to the head as the center of the intellect:
5. capacity for sympathy; feeling; affection:
6. spirit, courage, or enthusiasm:
7. the innermost or central part of anything:
8. the vital or essential part; core:
9. the breast or bosom:
10. a person (used especially in expressions of praise or affection):
11. a conventional shape with rounded sides meeting in a point at the bottom and curving inward to a cusp at the top.
12. a red figure or pip of this shape on a playing card.
13. a card of the suit bearing such figures.
14. hearts. (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked: (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players try to avoid taking tricks containing this suit.
15. Botany. the core of a tree; the solid central part without sap or albumen.
16. good condition for production, growth, etc., as of land or crops.
17. Also called core. Ropemaking. a strand running through the center of a rope, the other strands being laid around it.

Idioms

1. after one's own heart, in keeping with one's taste or preference:
2. at heart, in reality; fundamentally; basically:
3. break someone's heart, to cause someone great disappointment or sorrow, as to disappoint in love:
4. by heart, by memory; word-for-word:
5. cross one's heart, to maintain the truth of one's statement; affirm one's integrity:
6. do someone's heart good, to give happiness or pleasure to; delight:
7. eat one's heart out, to have jealousy, longing, or sorrow dominate one's emotions (often used in the imperative and with jocular reference to a famous potential rival):
8. from the bottom of one's heart, with complete sincerity. Also, from one's heart, from the heart.
9. have a heart, to be compassionate or merciful:
10. have at heart, to have as an object, aim, or desire:
11. have one's heart in one's mouth, to be very anxious or fearful:
12. have one's heart in the right place, to be fundamentally kind, generous, or well-intentioned:
13. heart and soul, enthusiastically; fervently; completely:
14. in one's heart of hearts, in one's private thoughts or feelings; deep within one:
15. lose one's heart to, to fall in love with:
16. near one's heart, of great interest or concern to one: Also, close to one's heart.
17. not have the heart, to lack the necessary courage or callousness to do something:
18. pour out one's heart, to reveal one's thoughts or private feelings: Also, open one's heart.
19. set one's heart against, to be unalterably opposed to: Also, have one's heart set against.
20. set one's heart at rest, to dismiss one's anxieties:
21. set one's heart on, to wish for intensely; determine on: Also, have one's heart set on.
22. take heart, to regain one's courage; become heartened:
23. take / lay to heart, to think seriously about; concern oneself with: to be deeply affected by; grieve over:
24. to one's heart's content, until one is satisfied; as much or as long as one wishes:
25. wear one's heart on one's sleeve, to make one's intimate feelings or personal affairs known to all: to be liable to fall in love; fall in love easily:
26. with all one's heart, with earnestness or zeal. with willingness; cordially:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to fix in the heart. to encourage.
2. Informal. to like or enjoy very much; love:

Origin of heart

before 900; Middle English herte, Old English heorte; cognate with Dutch hart, German Herz, Old Norse hjarta, Gothic hairtō; akin to Latin cor (see cordial,

Examples for heart

Give your heart up to it, as a little child led by its mother's hand!

One specific kind of emergency is at the heart of this, such as when an airplane suffers a loss of stability at night.

And still, dearest Philothea, your heart speaks the same language.

But as Philothea bent over him, she perceived a faint pulsation of the heart.

By some mysterious power you have ever known my heart better than I myself have known it.

And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

Acting legend talks about what role is closest to her heart.

Yet all seemed cheerless; for the heart of Paralus was desolate.

But at the heart of this “Truther” conspiracy theory is the idea that “someone” wants to destroy Bill Cosby.