DICTOMETER

HEART

(heart, chimenea, corazón, entraña, hjerte, kjerne, skorstein)

1. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   • Bosom
   Definitions:
   • the locus of feelings and intuitions
   Examples:
   • In your heart you know it is true
   • Her story would melt your bosom
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   • Pump
   • Ticker
   Definitions:
   • the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs
   • its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
   Examples:
   • He stood still, his heart thumping wildly
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   • Mettle
   • Nerve
   • Spunk
   Definitions:
   • the courage to carry on
   Examples:
   • He kept fighting on pure spunk
   • You haven't got the heart for baseball
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Center
   • Centre
   • Middle
   • Heart
   • Eye
   Definitions:
   • an area that is approximately central within some larger region
   Examples:
   • It is in the center of town
   • They ran forward into the heart of the struggle
   • They were in the eye of the storm
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Kernel
   • Substance
   • Core
   • Center
   • Centre
   • Essence
   • Gist
   • Heart
   • Heart and soul
   • Inwardness
   • Marrow
   • Meat
   • Nub
   • Pith
   • Sum
   • Nitty-gritty
   Definitions:
   • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
   Examples:
   • The gist of the prosecutor's argument
   • The heart and soul of the Republican Party
   • The nub of the story
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   • Spirit
   Definitions:
   • an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
   Examples:
   • He had a change of heart
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   Definitions:
   • a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom
   • conventionally used on playing cards and valentines
   Examples:
   • He drew a heart and called it a valentine
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Heart
   Definitions:
   • a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
   Examples:
   • A five-pound beef heart will serve six
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Affection
   • Affectionateness
   • Fondness
   • Tenderness
   • Heart
   • Warmness
   • Warmheartedness
   • Philia
   Definitions:
   • a positive feeling of liking
   Examples:
   • He had trouble expressing the affection he felt
   • The child won everyone's heart
   • The warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Heart
    Definitions:
    • a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
    Examples:
    • He led the queen of hearts
    • Hearts were trumps