HEART


Meaning of HEART in English

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

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .