different between fart vs heart

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertan?, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.

The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• (General American) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

1. (informal, impolite, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: beef, blow off, break wind, cut one loose, cut the cheese, flatulate; see also Thesaurus:flatulate
2. (colloquial, intransitive, usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, Chapter 95, p. 457,^[2]

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, p. 139,^[3]

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

Usage notes

This term, although considered somewhat impolite, is not generally considered vulgar. It once was, and there still may be some that do consider it to be, so it is best avoided in polite discourse.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]
2. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, frat, raft, traf

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fartus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?fart/

Adjective

fart (feminine farta, masculine plural farts, feminine plural fartes)

1. stuffed
2. fed up

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, cognate with Dutch vaart, German Fahrt, Old Norse ferð. Doublet of færd (“journey”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/, [?f??d?]

Noun

fart c (singular definite farten, plural indefinite farter)

1. (uncountable) speed

   Synonym: (non-technical contexts) hastighed

2. (physics) speed (magnitude of velocity, if seen as a vector)
3. (sailing) trip; journey; trade.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Probably from Norwegian fart (“travel, velocity, speed”), from Middle Low German vart, Old High German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. Related to German Fahrt (“journey, ride”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/

Noun

fart m (plural farts)

1. wax (for skis)

Further reading

• “fart” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

far +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rt]
• Hyphenation: fart

Noun

fart

1. accusative singular of far

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/
• Rhymes: -ar?t

Noun

fart f (genitive singular fartar, no plural)

1. (informal) speed

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vart, related to fare (“fare, travel”).

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural farter, definite plural fartene)

1. velocity, speed

   Synonyms: hastighet, tempo

2. movement, motion

   Synonyms: bevegelse, gang

3. transportation

   Synonyms: ferdsel, reise, tur

4. high speed, vigor, drive

   Synonyms: driv, fres, liv

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fart

1. past participle of fare

References

• “fart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fart” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rt/

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural fartar, definite plural fartane)

1. speed, velocity
2. movement, motion
3. transport, transportation, traffic

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• vart

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, whence also Old English fierd, Old Norse ferð.

Noun

fart f

1. trip
2. ride

Descendants

• German: Fahrt

Polish

Etymology

From German Fahrt, from Old High German vart, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fart/

Noun

fart m inan

1. (colloquial) luck

   Synonym: szcz??cie

   Antonyms: niefart, pech

2. (colloquial) fluke; stroke of luck

   Synonyms: fuks, ?ut szcz??cia

Declension

Further reading

• fart in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Old Saxon fard. Cognate with Swedish färd, Dutch vaart, German Fahrt.

Pronunciation

Noun

fart c

1. speed
   • 1917, Bible, Jeremiah 48:16:

     Snart kommer Moabs ofärd, och hans olycka hastar fram med fart.

     Soon comes Moab’s calamity, and his misery hastes with speed.

Usage notes

• As a suffix in certain compounds (listed separately below) this word takes on the meaning of "road", "ramp" or "journey", just like German Fahrt or Swedish färd, rather than the standalone meaning of speed. Similar compounds with the suffix -färd exist, with slightly different meaning.
• In many compounds and in more formal or scientific use, speed translates to hastighet (“velocity”) rather than fart.

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds with the meaning of road, ramp, or journey

See also

• fort
• hastighet

English

Alternative forms

• hart, harte, hearte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hert?, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *??r (“heart”). Doublet of cardia.

Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.

The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ? NY advertising campaign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??t/
• (General American) enPR: härt, IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Homophone: hart

Noun

heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)

1. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
   • 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.

   • Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943)
3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

   Synonyms: bravery, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage

   • c. 1679, William Temple, Essay

     The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.

5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

   Synonyms: honey, sugar; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart

   • c. 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V scene v^[4]:

     My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[5]:

     Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
     Awake.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 9–10:

     Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.

7. Personality, disposition.

8. (figuratively) A wight or being.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i^[6]:

     […] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, […]

9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ? or sometimes <3.
10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. (figuratively) The centre, essence, or core.

    Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See heart/translations § Noun.

Verb

heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)

1. (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. [from late 20th c.]

   Synonyms: love, less than three

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
3. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
4. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

References

Further reading

• heart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Earth, Erath, Harte, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, earth, hater, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare