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# heartbeat

«heartbeat» in Mova's school dictionary: **one beat of the heart as it pumps blood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (heartbeat, heartbeats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A heartbeat is one beat of the heart as it pumps blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#m1)

2) Your heartbeat is the steady sound or rhythm of your heart beating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#m2)

3) «In a heartbeat» means very quickly, without stopping to think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and PE lessons pupils find their pulse on the wrist or neck, count heartbeats for 15 seconds and multiply by 4 to get beats per minute; exercise makes the heartbeat faster. A doctor listens to a heartbeat with a stethoscope. Phrases: count your heartbeat, fast heartbeat, in a heartbeat.

### examples

- I could feel my heartbeat after the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x1)
- The doctor listened to my heartbeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x2)
- Count your heartbeats for one minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x3)
- Exercise makes your heartbeat faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x4)
- A baby's heartbeat is faster than an adult's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x5)
- I'd say yes in a heartbeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartbeat/#x6)

### note

Countable noun; one word: heart + beat. Maths: a child's resting heartbeat is about 70–100 beats per minute; 20 beats in 15 seconds = 80 per minute. The pulse you feel at the wrist is each heartbeat pushing blood.

### In the corpora

- [Each heartbeat squeezes blood out and sends a wave along the arteries, which you feel as your pulse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/5/)
- [Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heartbeat, and it will wake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/6/)
- [Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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