1. subst. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. subst. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
3. subst. 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.
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
4. subst. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
5. subst. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. subst. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
7. subst. Personality, disposition.
a cold heart
8. subst. (figurative) A wight or being.
9. subst. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes (unsupported, <3).
10. subst. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. subst. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. subst. The centre, essence, or core.
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
13. v. (transitive, humorous, informal, mostly, internet slang) To be fond of. (Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.)
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to be devoted.
15. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
16. v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
crux
crux
1. subst. The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
2. subst. The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
3. subst. A puzzle or difficulty.
4. subst. (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
1. subst. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
2. subst. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
3. subst. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. subst. (UK, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
5. subst. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
a peach stone
6. subst. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
kidney stone
7. subst. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
8. subst. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
(color panel, 8A807C)
9. subst. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
10. subst. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
11. subst. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
12. subst. (obsolete) A testicle.
13. subst. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.
14. v. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
She got stoned to death after they found her.
15. v. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
16. v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
17. v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
18. v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
19. v. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
20. adj. Constructed of stone.
stone walls
21. adj. Having the appearance of stone.
stone pot
22. adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
She is one stone fox.
23. adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
stone butch; stone femme
24. adv. As a stone (used with following adjective).
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
25. adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
The Styistics performed a love song titled "I'm Stone in Love with You".
1. subst. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
the core of an apple or quince
2. subst. The heart or inner part of a physical thing
3. subst. The center or inner part of a space or area
the core of a square
4. subst. The most important part of a thing; the essence.
the core of a subject
5. subst. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
6. subst. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
7. subst. (computing) Magnetic data storage.
8. subst. (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called mult
I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the
9. subst. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
10. subst. The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
11. subst. A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
12. subst. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
13. subst. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
14. subst. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
15. subst. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.
16. subst. (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
17. v. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
18. v. To extract a sample with a drill.
19. subst. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
20. subst. A miner's underground working time or shift.
21. subst. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
22. subst. (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
1. subst. The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
the kernel of an argument
2. subst. (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
3. subst. (botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
4. subst. (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
5. subst. A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
6. subst. (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
The Linux kernel is open-source.
7. subst. (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
8. subst. (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
9. subst. (mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
10. subst. (mathematics, linear algebra, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear map between vector spaces), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f&
If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
11. subst. (mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
12. subst. (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
13. subst. (slang) The human clitoris.
14. subst. (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
nitty-gritty
nitty-gritty
1. subst. (colloquial) The essence or core of something; the details.
He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.
4. subst. (historical, legal) In Ancient Rome, a person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if he failed to pay, his creditor could compel him to work as a servant until the debt was p
2. subst. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
3. subst. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where th
4. subst. A mine.
5. subst. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precis
6. subst. (trading) A trading pit.
7. subst. The bottom part of something.
I felt pain in the pit of my stomach.
8. subst. (colloquial) Armpit.
9. subst. (aviation) A luggage hold.
10. subst. A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
11. subst. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
12. subst. The grave, or underworld.
13. subst. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
14. subst. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parq
15. subst. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
16. subst. (slang) A pit bull terrier.
I'm taking one of my pits to the vet on Thursday.
17. subst. (in the with the, slang) (only used in, the pits).
His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.
18. v. To make pits in.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
19. v. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
20. v. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?
21. v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
22. subst. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
23. subst. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
24. subst. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
25. v. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
26. subst. (informal) A pit bull terrier.
gist
gist
1. subst. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
2. subst. (legal, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
3. subst. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
4. v. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.
