heartbeat
/ˈhɑːtbiːt
/noun
1The pulsation of the heart: his heartbeat quickened as Rose approached...
- His heartbeat quickened as he hurried towards her room.
- As he walked up to her she felt her heartbeat quicken.
- Looking across the dark waters that separate our houses, I can't help but feel my heartbeat quicken and the resolve in my mind harden.
1.1A single pulsation of the heart: her heartbeats steadied...
- Oh, of course she knew, she could feel them, smell them, hear those steady heartbeats and rushing blood, practically tasting the crimson on her tongue.
- Suddenly, the man drew in a sharp gasp and the heart monitor erupted into a flurry of sound, beeping off the steady, but rapid heartbeats.
- The words made Shipper's cheeks turn pink and he felt his heartbeats quicken again.
1.2An animating or vital unifying force: Ontario has long been the commercial heartbeat of Canada...
- He may not garner the headlines that some of his teammates accrue, but Lambert is the heartbeat of the robust team which has been transformed into treble winners under O'Neill.
- Flintoff, as Selvey correctly deduces, has become the heartbeat of the team; the carthorse that also provides the gallops.
- For twelve years Keane has been the heartbeat of the United team.
Phrases
a heartbeat (away) from
in a heartbeat
- timbale
- timbale mold
- timbale mould
- timber
- timbered
- timber-frame
- timber-framed
- timber-framer
- timber-framing
- timber-getter
- timber hitch
- timbering
- timberland
- timberline
- timberman
- timber wolf
- timber yard
- timbre
- timbrel
- Timbuctoo
- Timbuktu
- time
- time after time (also time and again or time and time again)
- time and motion
- time and motion study