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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#m1)

2) Your feelings, kindness or love: a kind heart, a broken heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#m2)

3) The centre or most important part: the heart of the city, the heart of the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#m3)

4) The shape ♥, and one of the four suits in playing cards (hearts). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#m4)

5) Courage: «Don't lose heart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x1)
- My heart beats fast after I run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x2)
- We learned the poem by heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x3)
- She has a kind heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x4)
- The museum is in the heart of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x5)
- I drew a red heart on the card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x6)
- He played the queen of hearts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x7)
- Don't lose heart — try again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x8)
- And now my heart is broken." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/4/)
- [When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/12/)
- [Fire drills work the same way: when you have practised, your body knows the steps even when your heart is racing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/1/)
- [Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/21/)
- [An octopus really has three hearts; some surprising facts are true.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.