Heart

Noun

 * 1)  A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
 * 2)  Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
 * The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
 * 1) * 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
 * "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.
 * 1) A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
 * 2) * 1998, Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup, page 106:
 * "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
 * 1) A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
 * 2) The centre, essence, or core.
 * 3) * 1899, Robert Barr, The Strong Arm, ch. 3:
 * At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.
 * At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.



Derived terms

 * amber heart
 * artichoke heart
 * at heart
 * be still my heart
 * bleeding heart
 * break someone’s heart
 * by heart
 * change of heart
 * cockles of the heart
 * cold hands, warm heart
 * congestive heart failure
 * coronary heart disease
 * dishearten
 * eat one’s heart out
 * from the bottom of one’s heart
 * good-hearted
 * halfhearted
 * hard-hearted
 * heartache
 * heart attack


 * heartbeat
 * heart block
 * heartbreak
 * heartbreaker
 * heart-breaking
 * heartbroken
 * heartburn
 * heart disease
 * hearten
 * heart failure
 * heartfelt
 * heart-free
 * heart-healthy
 * heartland
 * heartless
 * heart-lung machine
 * heart pine
 * heartrending
 * heartsease
 * heartsick


 * heartsome
 * heartsore
 * heart-stopping
 * heartstring
 * heartthrob
 * heart-to-heart
 * heartwarming
 * heart-whole
 * heartwood
 * heartworm
 * hearty
 * home is where the heart is
 * lose one’s heart
 * open-heart/open-heart surgery
 * pour one's heart out
 * Purple Heart
 * put one's heart on one's sleeve
 * set one’s heart on
 * single-hearted
 * sweetheart
 * take heart
 * wholehearted

Verb

 * 1)  To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
 * 2) * 1905, Capt. James, William Wordsworth (editor), Poems and Extracts, page 81
 * I heart to pray their bones may rest in peace
 * 1) * 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
 * We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
 * 1) * 2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
 * I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
 * 1) * 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
 * The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
 * 1) * 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
 * 2)  To encourage.
 * 3)  To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
 * 4)  To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

Synonyms

 * love, less than three

Adjectives for Heart
abysmal; aching; adulterate; affectionate affection-starved; agitated; alien; alienated anguished; animated;  anxious;  ardent arid; attentive; barren; bursting; base beating; beauty-broken; beauty-loving; be-clouded; beefy; befuddled; besotted; bewildering; black; bland; blank; blazoned bleeding;   blighted;   boding;   bounding brave; breaking; breathless; broken; brute bucklered; burdened; burning; bursting busy; callous; careless; cheerful; cheering cheery; childlike; clamorous; cold; compassionate; conscious; conservative; constant; constricted; contented; contrite; core-less; corrupted; courtly; covetous; cowardly; critical; crushed; dark;  darkened; dauntless; dazzling; dead; deceitful; dedicated; defying; delicate; delighted; desolate; despairing; disappointed; discontented; diseased; divided; dormant; double; doubting; drained; dreary; drowsy; dull; duteous; eager; echoing; ecstatic; editorial; effeminate; emptied; enchanted; encouraged; energetic; entranced; erring; ever-beating; everlasting; exacting;  excited; fainting; faithful; false; famished; famous; farseeing; fascinated; faultless; fearful; fecund; feeble; feminine; fevered; fiendish; fierce; fiery; firm; fleshy; flinty; wrung; fluttering; foolish; forestalled; forever-shattered;  fragrance-laden;   frail; frank; freer; fretted; frightened; frost-bound; frosted; frowning; frozen; gallant; general; generous; gentle; genuine; girlish; gleeful; graceless; grateful; gravel; grieved; guileless; half-snared; hammering; happy; haughty; heavenly; heavy; heedless; hereditary; heroic; hidden; humanitarian; humble; hungering; hurrying; hushed; idolatrous; impassioned; impious; impressionable; improvident; impulsive; inconstant; indecent; individual; indolent; indurated; inmost; inner; innocent; intense; irritable; joyous; kind; kindling; kindred; laboring; lacerated; laggard; languid; laughing; lavish; leaden; life-giving; light; lively; living; lofty; lonely; long; long-enduring; long-pent; long-wandering; longing; loudly-beating; love-pampered; loving; low; low-hushed;  maddening;   manful;   manly; marble; mean; meditative; merry; mighty; moist; mourning; mountain; moved; mysterious; mystic; naked; noble; obdurate; open; oppressed; orphaned; outraged; overburdened; overflowing; overfull; overladen; overworked; pained; palpitating; passionate; paternal; pearly; penitent; pent; perfect; perplexed; perturbed; perverse; pinched; pious; pitiless; pitying; plighted; poisoned; poor; popish; popular; poverty-stricken; private; profane; profound; propelled; prophetic; proud; pulsating; puny; pure; pusillanimous; quaking; queenly; queer; quenched;  quick-beating;  quick-breathed; quickened; rapt; rapture-filled; ravaged; rebellious; reckless; relenting; repressed; responsive; restless; returning; reverent; riotous; rising; rocky; rough; royal; rude; rugged; rusting; saddened; satisfied; scented; scheming; scorching; seated; self-accusing; sensitive; shadowy; shallow; sheer; shuddering; sickly; sincere; sinewy; singing; single; sinking; slight; slow; smitten; smothered; softened; solitary; somber; sore; sorrowful; spotless; stagnant; stainless; stalwart; starry; steadfast; sterner; still-renewed; stirring; stony; stout; straitened; stricken; strong; struggling; stubborn; sturdy; suffocating; sullen; sunny; superstitious; susceptible; swelling; sweltering; sympathetic; tavern-like;  tempeat-tossed;   tender;  terrified;thankful; thoughtless;  thought-propelled throbbing;  thumping;  tortured;  tossed towering; trembling; tremulous; troubled trusting; tumultuous; turbulent; tyrannous; unassisted; uncaged; unconjectured; un divided; uneasy; unfettered; unfortified unfrozen; unguarded; universal; unmoved anpurchasable; unquickened; unquiet; unselfish; unsophisticated; unsuspecting; untutored; unwavering; unworn; unyielding upright; vacant; veritable; virgin; wakening; wandering; warm; wasting; waxing wayward; weak; weary; well-contented well-disposed; wicked; widowed; wild wintry;  withering;   womanly;   wooing wordless; worldly; worried; worshipping wounded; wretched; yearning; zealous.

Verbs for Heart
appeal to—; beguile—; chill—; depress—; dilate—; ease—; engage—; enshrine in—; furrow—; gather—; gladden—; harden—; hug to—; lay open—; melt—; mend—; pluck at—; pour out—; smite—; stab to—; stimulate—; take to—; warm—; wring—; —awakens; —betrays; —bleeds; —blinds; —contracts; —craves; —expands; —fails; —hungers; —jumps; —misgives; —overflows; —palpitates; —pines; —pounds; — prompts; —quakes; —races; —responds; — sinks; —softens; —swells ; —throbs; — ticks; —yearns.

Thesaurus
Amor, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Christian love, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Eros, Methedrine, abatis, abdomen, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, angina, angina pectoris, anima, anima humana, animating force, anus, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, appendix, ardency, ardor, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atman, atrial fibrillation, attachment, auricular fibrillation, axiom, axis, ba, backbone, basics, bathmism, beating heart, being, bench mark, beriberi heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blind gut, blood, bodily love, boldness, bones, bosom, bottom, bowels, brain, brains, bravery, breast, breath, breath of life, brotherly love, buddhi, callousness, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, cardinal point, carditis, caritas, cecum, center, center of action, center of gravity, center of life, centroid, centrum, charity, chief thing, chitterlings, chutzpah, climax, cocaine, cockscomb, coke, colon, compassion, concern, congenital heart disease, conjugal love, consideration, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, core, cornerstone, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, courage, crisis, critical point, crux, crystal, cue, dauntlessness, dead center, deepest recesses, desire, determination, devotion, dextroamphetamine sulfate, diameter, diaphragm, diastolic hypertension, distillate, distillation, divine breath, divine spark, duodenum, ecstasy, ego, elan vital, elixir, empathy, encased heart, endocarditis, endocardium, enthusiasm, entrails, epicenter, equator, esoteric reality, esprit, essence, essence of life, essential, essential matter, excitement, extrasystole, fabric, faithful love, fancy, fatty heart, feelings, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fibroid heart, fire, flame, flask-shaped heart, flower, focal point, focus, fondness, football, force of life, foregut, frame, frame of mind, free love, free-lovism, frosted heart, fundamental, fundamentals, furor, fury, generosity, giblets, gist, gizzard, goodness, gravamen, great point, grit, growth force, gusto, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hairy heart, haslet, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, heart of hearts, heart of oak, heartbeat, heartblood, heartiness, heartlessness, heartstrings, heat, hero worship, high blood pressure, high point, hindgut, hub, humanitarianism, humanity, humor, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, hypostasis, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impassionedness, important thing, impulse of life, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner, inner essence, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner mechanism, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost being, insensitivity, inside, insides, inspiriting force, interior, interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestine, intrados, inward, inwards, ischemic heart disease, issue, jejunum, jiva, jivatma, jolly bean, kernel, keystone, khu, kidney, kidneys, kindliness, kindness, kishkes, landmark, large intestine, lasciviousness, libido, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, like, liking, liveliness, liver, liver and lights, living force, love, lovemaking, lung, magnanimity, main point, main thing, manes, married love, marrow, material, material point, matter, mean, meat, median, medium, medulla, metacenter, methamphetamine hydrochloride, mettle, middle, midgut, midmost, midriff, midst, milestone, mind, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, mood, morale, moxie, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, nave, navel, nephesh, nerve, nerve center, note, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, ox heart, palate, palpitation, paralytic stroke, paroxysmal tachycardia, passion, passionateness, penetralia, pep pill, pericarditis, perineum, physical love, pile, pith, pity, pivot, pluck, pneuma, polestar, popular regard, popularity, postulate, prana, premature beat, principle, pseudoaortic insufficiency, psyche, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pump, purple heart, purusha, pylorus, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recesses, rectum, regard, relish, resolution, rheumatic heart disease, root, round heart, ruach, salient point, sap, savor, sclerosis, seat, seat of life, secret heart, secret place, secret places, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentiments, sex, sexual love, shade, shadow, shine, sincerity, sine qua non, small intestine, snow, soul, spark of life, speed, spirit, spirits, spiritual being, spiritual love, spiritus, spleen, spunk, stamina, state of mind, stimulant, stomach, stony heart, storm center, stout heart, stroke, stuff, substance, substantive point, sum and substance, sweetbread, sympathy, tachycardia, temper, tender feeling, tender passion, tenderness, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, the self, thick, thick of things, thrombosis, ticker, tone, tongue, toughness, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, tripe, tripes, true being, true inwardness, truelove, turning point, turtle heart, umbilicus, understanding, upper, uxoriousness, varicose veins, varix, vehemence, vein, ventricular fibrillation, vermiform appendix, verve, vis vitae, vis vitalis, viscera, vital center, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, vitals, waist, waistline, warmth, warmth of feeling, weakness, will, works, worship, yearning, zeal, zest, zone

Etymology
heorte: < <. Cognate with Low German Hart:, Dutch hart:, German Herz:, Swedish hjärta:. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek καρδία:, Latin cor:, Welsh craidd:, Irish croí:, Russian сердце:, Lithuanian širdis:.

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 * : 心情 (xīn qíng) (2); 心形 (xīn xíng) (3); 紅心, 红心 (hóng xīn) (4)
 * : 心 (xīn), 胸怀 (xiōng-huái)
 * : 심혼 (simhon)


 * : hart,
 * : (dil)

Anagrams

 * Earth, earth, hater, rathe, rehat, Terah