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(noun) a playing card in the major suit of hearts; "he led the queen of hearts" |
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Related Words: playing card |
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(noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart" |
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Synonyms: spirit |
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Related Words: disposition, temperament |
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(noun) the courage to carry on: "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" |
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Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
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Related Words: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) the hollow muscular organ whose rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" |
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Synonyms: pump, ticker |
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Related Words: athlete's heart, biauriculate heart, internal organ |
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(noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom" |
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Synonyms: bosom |
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Related Words: hunch, intuition, suspicion |
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(noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six" |
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Related Words: organs, variety meat |
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(noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it a valentine" |
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Related Words: plane figure, two-dimensional figure |
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(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" |
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Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
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Related Words: area, central city, city center, civic center, country, down town, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center, midfield, midstream, municipal center, see |
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(noun) a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart" |
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Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, warmheartedness |
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Related Words: attachment, feeling, fond regard, protectiveness, regard, respect, soft spot |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the nub of the story" |
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Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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Related Words: cognitive content, content, hypostasis, mental object, quintessence, stuff |
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