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heart
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)
- (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
- (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)
- 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
- 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.
- 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.
- Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
- (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.
- Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
- 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.
- Personality, disposition.
- (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, […]
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i[6]:
- A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ? or sometimes <3.
- A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (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)
- (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
- (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- (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
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chest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ?est, ?ist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh? (“woven container”).
Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).
Alternative forms
- chist (obsolete)
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- A chest of drawers.
- (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Synonyms
- (the thorax): breast
- (box): trunk
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
Derived terms
- chest down
Etymology 2
From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ??ast, ??as (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian k?se (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German k?sa (“speech, story, account”).
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
Anagrams
- Tesch, chets, techs
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.
Pronoun
chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)
- this
See also
- chel
Ladin
Alternative forms
- chëst
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.
Adjective
chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)
- this
- (in the plural) these
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ?east, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).
Alternative forms
- cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
chest (plural chestes)
- fighting, strife, battle
- quarrelling, disputation
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- (rare) turmoil, discord
Descendants
- English: chest
References
- “ch?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Etymology 2
From Old French geste.
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
Etymology 3
From Old English ?est.
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)
Old French
Adjective
chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)
- Picardy form of cist
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Verb
chest
- Aspirate mutation of cest.
Mutation
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