heartnoun
uk/hɑːt/us/hɑːrt/heart noun (ORGAN)
A2 [ C ] the organ in your chest that sends the blood around your body:
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- The teacher drew a diagram showing how the blood flows through the heart.
- Small amounts of alcohol are held to be good for the heart.
- The bullet missed his heart by a couple of centimetres.
- I could feel my heart pounding as I went on stage to collect the prize.
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The circulatory system & blood
- Abo
- accessory pathway
- atrioventricular
- auricular
- blood donor
- blood sugar
- capillary
- erectile
- intravenous
- LV
- mediastinal
- microvascular
- myocardial
- myocarditis
- oxyhaemoglobin
- palpitate
- pressure point
- pulse
- Rh factor
- semilunar valve
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heart noun (EMOTIONS)
B1 [ C or U ] used to refer to a person's character, or the place within a person where feelings or emotions are considered to come from:
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- She remained silent, for her heart was heavy and her spirits low.
- Could you find it in your heart to forgive her?
- She's very understanding - you feel you can really open your heart to her.
- What he said struck terror in my heart .
- When I said I loved you, I meant it from the bottom of my heart.
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Mind and personality
- (a) penny for your thoughts idiom
- -minded
- alter ego
- beauty
- beauty is only skin deep idiom
- better nature
- cognitive
- ego
- inwardly
- mental
- mental age
- mentality
- penny
- psyche
- quality
- quirk
- rational
- self
- spirit
- unconscious
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heart noun (CENTRAL PART)
B1 [ S ] the central or most important part:
[ C ] the firm central part of a vegetable, especially one with a lot of leaves:
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- These are changes that attack the very heart of British society.
- By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values.
- They live in a two-bedroomed house in the heart of suburbia.
- He had a key job at the heart of government.
- They've got a fabulous apartment in the heart of Paris.
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Important and essential things
- -based
- amenity
- be-all
- big league
- biggie
- flagship
- grandaddy
- heavyweight
- hot button
- imperative
- kernel
- keynote
- keystone
- nucleus
- pivot
- precondition
- prerequisite
- priority
- requisite
- sine qua non
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heart noun (COURAGE)
C2 [ U ] courage, determination, or hope:
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Bravery
- audacious
- audacity
- backbone
- balls
- bold
- bottle
- bravery
- derring-do
- Dutch courage
- fearless
- fighting spirit
- fortitude
- gut
- intestinal fortitude
- liquid courage
- nerve
- pluck
- valorous
- valour
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heart noun (SHAPE)
B2 [ C ] a shape, consisting of two half circles next to each other at the top and a V shape at the bottom, often coloured pink or red and used to represent love
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- oval
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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heart noun (CARDS)
[ plural or U ] one of the four suits in playing cards, represented by a red heart shape:
[ C ] a playing card from the suit of hearts:
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- stick
- strip poker
- suit
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Idiom(s)
heartverb [ T ]
uk/hɑːt/us/hɑːrt/informal mainly humorous used to say that you like someone or something very much:
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Liking
- affection
- attached
- be a glutton for sth idiom
- be a hit with sb idiom
- be big on sth idiom
- grow
- grow on sb
- have a lot of time for sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- hit
- lick your lips idiom
- liking
- smitten
- soft corner
- soft spot
- take a shine to sb idiom
- take to sb/sth
- taste
- thing
- warm
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