Heart

[hɑːt] or [hɑrt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it; 'he led the queen of hearts'; 'hearts were trumps'.

(noun.) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; 'he had a change of heart'.

(noun.) the courage to carry on; 'he kept fighting on pure spunk'; 'you haven't got the heart for baseball'.

(noun.) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; 'he stood still, his heart thumping wildly'.

(noun.) the locus of feelings and intuitions; 'in your heart you know it is true'; 'her story would melt your bosom'.

(noun.) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); 'a five-pound beef heart will serve six'.

(noun.) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; 'he drew a heart and called it a valentine'.

手打:弗拉德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

編輯:沃尔夫冈

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Seat of life.[2]. Centre, interior, core, kernel, inner part, vital part.[3]. Disposition, mind, will, inclination, purpose, intent, affection, passion.[4]. Courage, spirit, firmness, fortitude, resolution.

斐迪南整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Core, nucleus, kernel, interior, center, character, disposition, courage,hardihood, nature, life, feeling, benevolence

ANT:Exterior, hand, action, aspect, manifestation, conduct, deed, timidity

简錄入

解釋/意思:

n. the organ in animal systems that circulates the blood: the vital inner or chief part of anything: the seat of the affections &c. esp. love: the affections: courage: vigour: secret meaning or design: that which resembles a heart: a person esp. as implying courage or affectionateness—a term of endearment or encouragement: anything heart-shaped esp. that one of the four suits in a pack of cards bearing a heart in red.—v.t. to encourage hearten.—v.i. to form a compact head as a plant.—ns. Heart′ache sorrow: anguish; Heart′-beat a pulsation of the heart: a throb of emotion a thought; Heart′-blood blood of the heart: life essence; Heart′-bond in masonry a bond in which one header overlaps two others; Heart′-break a sorrow or grief.—v.t. to break the heart of.—n. Heart′-break′er a flirt: a curl love-lock.—adjs. Heart′-break′ing crushing with grief or sorrow; Heart′-brok′en intensely afflicted or grieved.—ns. Heart′burn a burning acrid feeling said to be due to the irritation of the upper end of the stomach by the fumes of its acrid contents: cardialgia: Heart′burning discontent: secret enmity.—adj. Heart′-dear (Shak.) dear to the heart sincerely beloved.—n. Heart′-disease′ any morbid condition of the heart whether of the various tissues composing it or of the nervous arrangements governing it.—adjs. Heart′-eas′ing giving peace to the mind; Heart′ed having a heart of a specified kind (hard-hearted &c.): seated or fixed in the heart laid up in the heart.—v.t. Heart′en to encourage stimulate: to add strength to.—adjs. Heart′-felt felt deeply: sincere; Heart′free having the affections free or disengaged.—ns. Heart′-grief grief or affliction of the heart; Heart′-heav′iness depression of spirits.—adv. Heart′ily in a hearty manner: cordially: eagerly.—n. Heart′iness the state or quality of being hearty.—adj. Heart′less without heart courage or feeling.—adv. Heart′lessly.—ns. Heart′lessness; Heart′let a little heart.—interj. Heart′ling (Shak.) little heart used in a minced oath.—n. Heart′-quake trembling fear.—adjs. Heart′-rend′ing deeply afflictive: agonising; Heart′-rob′bing (Spens.) stealing the affections: blissful.—ns. Heart′-rot a disease producing decay in the hearts of trees caused by the mycelia of various fungi; Heart's′-ease a common name for the pansy a species of violet an infusion of which was once thought to ease the love-sick heart; Heart′-seed a general name of plants of genus Cardiospermum esp. the U.S. balloon-vine; Heart′-serv′ice sincere devotion as opposed to Eye-service.—adjs. Heart′-shaped shaped like the human heart; Heart′-sick pained in mind: depressed.—n. Heart′-sick′ness.—adjs. Heart′some exhilarating: merry; Heart′-sore caused by pain at the heart.—n. (Spens.) grief.—n. Heart′-spoon the depression in the breastbone: the breastbone.—adj. Heart′-stir′ring arousing the heart exhilarating.—n. Heart′-string a nerve or tendon supposed to brace and sustain the heart: (pl.) affections.—adjs. Heart′-struck (Shak.) driven to the heart deeply fixed in the mind: (Milt.) shocked dismayed; Heart′-swell′ing (Spens.) rankling in the heart or mind.—ns. Heart′-wheel Heart′-cam a form of cam-wheel used for converting uniform rotary motion into uniform reciprocating motion.—adj. Heart′-whole whole at heart: unmoved in the affections or spirits.—n. Heart′-wood the hard inner wood of a tree—also called Duramen.—adjs. Heart′y full of or proceeding from the heart: warm: genuine: strong: healthy; Heart′y-hale (Spens.) wholesome or good for the heart.—Heart-and-hand Heart-and-soul with complete heartiness with complete devotion to a cause; Heart of hearts the inmost heart: deepest affections; Heart of oak a brave resolute heart.—After my own heart to my own liking; At heart in real character: substantially; Break the heart to die of grief or disappointment: to cause deep grief to any one; By heart by rote: in the memory; Eat one's heart (see Eat); Find in one's heart to be willing or ready to do something; For one's heart for one's life; Get Have by heart to commit to memory or to hold in one's memory; Have at heart to wish earnestly for: to hold in dear esteem; Have one's heart in one's boots mouth to be in a state of terror; Lay Take to heart to set one's mind strongly upon: to be deeply moved by something; Out of heart in low spirits; Set the heart at rest to become easy in mind; Set the heart upon to desire earnestly; Speak to the heart (B.) to comfort encourage; Take heart to be encouraged; Take heart of grace (see Grace); Take to heart to be deeply pained at anything; Wear the heart upon the sleeve to show the feelings &c. openly; With all my heart most willingly.

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