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