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In uncountable terms the difference between heart and bone

is that heart is emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general while bone is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

As nouns the difference between heart and bone

is that heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion while bone is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

As verbs the difference between heart and bone

is that heart is to be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol while bone is to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

As an adjective bone is

of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

As a proper noun Bône is

a city in eastern Algeria, now known as Annaba.

heart

English

(wikipedia heart)

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Noun

  • (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
  • (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
    • The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart .
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • * 2008 , "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
    • "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The result still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip to face England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win in Bulgaria.}}
  • * Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'' (, '' , 1943)
  • 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.
    • a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
  • Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  • * Milton
    • Eve, recovering heart , replied.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The expelled nations take heart , and when they fly from one country invade another.
  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  • * Dryden
    • That the spent earth may gather heart again.
  • (obsolete)
  • * Shakespeare
    • I speak to thee, my heart .
  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: or sometimes <3.
  • * 1998 , Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup , page 106:
    • "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 27 , author=Mike Henson , title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air.}}
  • * 1899 , , The Strong Arm , ch. 3:
    • At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.

    Derived terms

    * artichoke heart * at heart * be still my heart * bleeding heart * break someone's heart * by heart * change of heart * cockles of the heart * * congestive heart failure * coronary heart disease * dishearten * eat one's heart out * from the bottom of one's heart * good-hearted * halfhearted * hard-hearted * have one's heart in the right place * heartache * heart attack * heartbeat * heart block * heartbreak * heartbreaker * heart-breaking * heartbroken * heartburn * heart disease * hearten * heart failure * heartfelt * heart-free * heart-healthy * heartland * heartless * heart-lung machine * heart pine * heartrending * heartsease * heartsick * heartsome * heartsore * heart-stopping * heartstring * heartthrob * heart-to-heart * heartwarming * heart-whole * heartwood * heartworm * hearty * heavy heart * home is where the heart is * lose heart * lose one's heart * open-heart/open-heart surgery * pour one's heart out * Purple Heart * put one's heart on one's sleeve * set one's heart on * single-hearted * sweetheart * take heart * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wholehearted

    Descendants

    (desc-top) * Japanese: (desc-mid) * Korean: (desc-bottom)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, poetic, or, humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
  • * 1905 , Capt. James, William Wordsworth (editor), Poems and Extracts ,
    • I heart to pray their bones may rest in peace
  • * 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
    • We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
  • * 2006 , Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
    • I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
  • * 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
    • The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
  • * 2008' July 25, "The Media '''Hearts Obama?", ''On The Media , National Public Radio
  • (obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My cause is hearted ; thine hath no less reason.
  • (masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
  • (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

    • Synonyms

    * (to be fond of) love, less than three

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    Anagrams

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    bone

    English

    (wikipedia bone)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (dialectal)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  • * {{quote-book, year= a1420
    • , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
  • (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  • (figurative) The framework of anything.
  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  • (US, informal) A dollar.
  • (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  • (slang) Dominoes or dice.
  • (slang) .
    • Synonyms
    * (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    • Verb

    (bon)
  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  • * 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],
    • One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
  • * 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],
    • The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
  • * 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],
    • Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
  • * 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],
    • Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
  • To fertilize with bone.
  • * 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],
    • He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
  • To put whalebone into.
    • to bone stays
    (Ash)
  • (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
    • boning rod
  • (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • So, did you bone her?
  • (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  • * 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.
    • "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".
  • To study.
    • bone up
  • * 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums
    • "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."
  • To polish boots to a shiny finish.
  • * F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]
    • "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"
    Synonyms
    * (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

    Derived terms

    * auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

    See also

    * * coccygeal vertebra * cervical vertebra * calcaneus * carpal * acetabulum * clavicle * coccyx * costa * cranium * distal phalange * exostosis * femur * fibula * humerus * ilium * incus * inferior nasal concha * intermediate phalange * ischium * kneecap * lumbar vertebra * malleus * mandible * maxilla * metacarpal * metatarsal * myositis ossificans * orthopedic * os coxae * ossature * ossein * osseous * ossicle * ossification * ossify * ossuary * osteal * osteitis * osteoblast * osteoclasis * osteoclast * osteocyte * osteogenesis * osteolysis * osteoma * osteomalacia * osteomyelitis * osteophyte * osteoplastic * osteoplasty * osteoporosis * osteosarcoma * osteosis * osteotome * osteotomy * patella * pelvic girdle * pelvis * phalanx * proximal phalange * pubis * radius * rib * sacral vertebra * sacrum * scapula * shoulder blade * skeleton * skull * stapes * sternum * talus * tarsal * thoracic vertebra * tibia * trapezium * ulna * vertebra *

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    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (slang) To apprehend, steal.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],
    • “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”
  • * 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,
    • as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,
    • Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
    • (Knight)
  • * W. M. Buchanan
    • Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

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