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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)

  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

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rudiment

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (a first attempt, a beginning), plural rudimenta (the elements), from rudis (rude); see rude.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??u?d?m?nt/

Noun

rudiment (plural rudiments)

  1. (often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
    We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
  2. (often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.
    I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
    • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature
      The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
  3. (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
  4. (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

Hypernyms

  • (biology): vestigiality

Derived terms

  • rudimental
  • rudimentary

Related terms

  • erudite

Translations

Further reading

  • rudiment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • rudiment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • rudiment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Verb

rudiment (third-person singular simple present rudiments, present participle rudimenting, simple past and past participle rudimented)

  1. (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.

Anagrams

  • unmitred

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

  1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

  • rudimentari

Further reading

  • “rudiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “rudiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “rudiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “rudiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Latin rudimentum

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

  1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

  • rudimentaire

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment n (plural rudimente)

  1. rudiment

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rud?ment/
  • Hyphenation: ru?di?ment

Noun

rudìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

  1. rudiment

Declension

References

  • “rudiment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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