heart

«heart» in Mova's school dictionary: The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a heart, hearts)

meaning for a pupil

1) The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body. tree →

2) Your feelings, kindness or love: a kind heart, a broken heart. tree →

3) The centre or most important part: the heart of the city, the heart of the problem. tree →

4) The shape ♥, and one of the four suits in playing cards (hearts). tree →

5) Courage: «Don't lose heart». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: the heart is a muscle about the size of your fist; it beats about 70–100 times a minute at rest in children, faster when you run; exercise keeps it healthy; you feel your pulse at your wrist. In stories and feelings: heart stands for love and feelings. Phrases: by heart (from memory), heartbeat, heart rate, learn by heart, break someone's heart, heart of gold, with all my heart, take heart, lose heart.

examples

• Your heart pumps blood all day and all night. tree →
• My heart beats fast after I run. tree →
• We learned the poem by heart. tree →
• She has a kind heart. tree →
• The museum is in the heart of the city. tree →
• I drew a red heart on the card. tree →
• He played the queen of hearts. tree →
• Don't lose heart — try again. tree →
• And now my heart is broken." tree →

note

Countable: hearts. Spelling «hear + t»; say it like «art» with an h. «Learn by heart» means learn so well you can say it without looking. The heart shape ♥ does not look like a real heart. Myth: the heart is not on the far left — it is near the middle, leaning left.

In the corpora

• His heart thumps, his cheeks go hot, and he shoves the tablet under a cushion.
• When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.
• Fire drills work the same way: when you have practised, your body knows the steps even when your heart is racing.
• Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart.
• An octopus really has three hearts; some surprising facts are true.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «heart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.