Heart vs. Hearth

Heartnoun

(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

Heartnoun

(uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.

Heartnoun

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

Heartnoun

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

Heartnoun

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

Heartnoun

(archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

Heartnoun

Personality, disposition.

Heartnoun

(figurative) A wight or being.

Heartnoun

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.

Heartnoun

A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

Heartnoun

(cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.

Heartnoun

The centre, essence, or core.

Heartverb

To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

Heartverb

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to be devoted.

Heartverb

To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.

Heartverb

To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

Heartnoun

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

Heartnoun

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; - usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

Heartnoun

The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

Heartnoun

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

Heartnoun

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

Heartnoun

That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, - used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

Heartnoun

One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

Heartnoun

Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

Heartnoun

A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

Heartverb

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

Heartverb

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

Heartnoun

the locus of feelings and intuitions;

Heartnoun

the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body;

Heartnoun

the courage to carry on;

Heartnoun

an area that is approximately central within some larger region;

Heartnoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

Heartnoun

an inclination or tendency of a certain kind;

Heartnoun

a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines;

Heartnoun

a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal);

Heartnoun

a positive feeling of liking;

Heartnoun

a playing card in the major suit of hearts;

Heartnoun

a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles.

Heartnoun

the region of the chest above the heart

Heartnoun

the heart regarded as the centre of a person's thoughts and emotions, especially love or compassion

Heartnoun

one's mood or feeling

Heartnoun

courage or enthusiasm

Heartnoun

the central or innermost part of something

Heartnoun

the vital part or essence

Heartnoun

the close compact head of a cabbage or lettuce.

Heartnoun

a conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top.

Heartnoun

one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red heart-shaped figure.

Heartnoun

a card of the suit of hearts.

Heartnoun

a card game similar to whist, in which players attempt to avoid taking tricks containing a card of the suit of hearts.

Heartnoun

the condition of agricultural land as regards fertility

Heartverb

like very much; love

Heart

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs.

Hearthnoun

A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

Hearthnoun

An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

Hearthnoun

The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

Hearthnoun

A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

Hearthnoun

(figurative) Home or family life.

Hearthnoun

(paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.

Hearthnoun

The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

Hearthnoun

The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Hearthnoun

The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.

Hearthnoun

an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;

Hearthnoun

home symbolized as a part of the fireplace;

Hearthnoun

an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room);

Hearth

A hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace, with or without an oven, used for heating and originally also used for cooking food. For centuries, the hearth was such an integral part of a home, usually its central and most important feature, that the concept has been generalized to refer to a homeplace or household, as in the terms and .