- heart
- noun1 part of the bodyADJECTIVE▪ healthy, strong▪ bad, weak▪ beating, pounding, racing▪ artificial▪ humanHEART + VERB▪ beat▪ pump sth▪
The heart pumps blood through the body.
▪ fail, stop▪ flutter, hammer, palpitate, pound, race, throb, thud, thumpHEART + NOUN▪ rate, rhythm▪ complaint (esp. BrE), condition, defect, disease, failure, murmur, problem, trouble (see also heart attack)▪ bypass, operation, surgery, transplant▪a triple heart bypass operation
▪ patient▪ monitor▪ muscle2 feelings/emotionsADJECTIVE▪ big, good, kind, pure, soft, tender, true, warm▪ cold, dark, hard▪ broken▪ heavy, sinking▪With a heavy heart, she watched him go.
▪ light▪He set off with a light heart.
VERB + HEART▪ have▪She has a kind heart.
▪Have you no heart?
▪ break▪He broke her heart.
▪ pierce▪Her words pierced my heart.
▪ touch▪His sad story touched her heart.
▪ gladden, melt, warm▪ capture, steal, win▪ follow▪Just follow your heart and you'll be happy.
▪ harden▪ open, pour out▪Finally, he broke down in tears and poured out his heart to her.
▪ fill▪Relief filled his heart.
HEART + VERB▪ jump, leap, lurch, miss a beat, skip a beat▪Her heart leaped with joy.
▪ ache▪My heart aches when I think of their sorrow.
▪ break▪Inside, his heart was slowly breaking.
▪ melt▪He smiled and her heart melted.
▪ desire sth▪everything your heart could desire
▪ sink▪ go out▪Our hearts go out to (= we sympathize deeply with) the families of the victims.
PREPOSITION▪ at heart▪At heart he is a republican.
▪ from the heart▪I could tell he spoke from the heart.
▪ in your heart▪In my heart, I knew it wasn't true.
PHRASES▪ an affair of the heart (= a romance)▪Her novels tend to deal with affairs of the heart
▪ a change of heart (= a change of attitude)▪He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life.
▪ from the bottom of your heart▪I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to spare his life.
▪ heart and soul▪He committed himself heart and soul to the cause.
▪ have a heart of gold (= to be a very kind person), have a heart of stone (= to be a person who does not show others sympathy or pity), the hearts and minds of sb▪to win the hearts and minds of the nation's youth
▪ in good heart (= cheerful and well) (BrE), put (your) heart into sth▪He really puts his heart into his singing.
▪ sick at heart (= very unhappy), with all your heart, with your whole heart (esp. AmE)▪I wish you well with all my heart.
3 important/central partADJECTIVE▪ very▪ real, true▪This brings us to the real heart of the matter.
VERB + HEART▪ lie at▪The distinction between right and wrong lies at the heart of all questions of morality.
▪ go to▪The committee's report went to the heart of the government's dilemma.
PREPOSITION▪ at the heart▪the issue at the heart of modern government
▪ heart of▪We live in the very heart of the city.
PHRASES▪ the heart of the matter, the heart of the problem4 playing card
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
