Health / A2

HAHT/hɑːt/

Your heart is the organ that pumps blood: a healthy heart, heart rate, a heart attack. By heart means from memory: learn the poem by heart. Heart can also mean feelings: a kind heart, break someone’s heart — learn those as set phrases. Do not mix heart with mind (thinking) or chest (the outside of the body).

Meaning

The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body.

Examples

• “Your heart beats faster when you run.”
• “The doctor listened to his heart.”
• “She learnt the new words by heart.”

Good to know

a heart attack. learn / know by heart. Contrast: mind = thinking.

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