Heart vs. Passion
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.
Passionnoun
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
Passionnoun
Fervor, determination.
Passionnoun
An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
Passionnoun
sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional
Passionnoun
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Passionnoun
A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passionverb
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passionverb
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Passionnoun
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
Passionnoun
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
Passionnoun
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passionnoun
The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
Passionnoun
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passionnoun
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Passionverb
To give a passionate character to.
Passionverb
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passionnoun
strong feeling or emotion
Passionnoun
intense passion or emotion
Passionnoun
something that is desired intensely;
Passionnoun
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Passionnoun
a feeling of strong sexual desire
Passionnoun
any object of warm affection or devotion;
Passionnoun
the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
Passionnoun
strong and barely controllable emotion
Passionnoun
a state or outburst of strong emotion
Passionnoun
intense sexual love
Passionnoun
an intense desire or enthusiasm for something
Passionnoun
a thing arousing great enthusiasm
Passionnoun
the suffering and death of Jesus
Passionnoun
an account of the Passion from any of the Gospels.
Passionnoun
a musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion
