Liver vs Heart - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
* 1993 , Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies , ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9314-0, page 222:
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Of the colour of (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
* 2006 , Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland , ISBN 0-543-96651-8, page 298:
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
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(live)
(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.
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* 2008 , "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
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* 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.
Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
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* Sir W. Temple
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
* Dryden
(obsolete)
* Shakespeare
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:
A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
The centre, essence, or core.
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* 1899 , , The Strong Arm , ch. 3:
(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 ,
* 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
* 2006 , Susan Reinhardt,
* 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
* 2008' July 25, "The Media '''Hearts Obama?", ''On The Media , National Public Radio
(obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
* Shakespeare
(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.
As an adjective liver
is (label) from or pertaining to liverpool.As a noun heart is
(anatomy) a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.As a verb heart is
(transitive|poetic|or|humorous) to be fond of often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.liver
English
(wikipedia liver)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl), (etyl) and (etyl) (m) (the last three from (etyl) (m)).Noun
- Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
- I'd like some goose liver pate.
- You could fry up some chicken livers''' for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken '''liver .
- "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver ."
Usage notes
* The noun is often used attributively to modify other words. Used in this way, it frequently means "concerning the liver", "intended for the liver" or "made of liver" .Derived terms
* chopped liver * cod liver oilAdjective
(-)- His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
Derived terms
* cod-liver oil * lily-livered * liver fluke * liver salts * liver sausage * liver spot * liverish * liverwort * liverwurst * sea liverSee also
* detoxification * fascioliasis * gout * jaundice *Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- Ephori'' of ''Sparta , hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.
- a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man.
- Try if life be worth the liver's care.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "liver")Etymology 3
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(head)- Seeing things on big screen somehow makes it seem liver .
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) ----heart
English
(wikipedia heart)Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
- The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart .
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- "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.
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- a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
- Eve, recovering heart , replied.
- The expelled nations take heart , and when they fly from one country invade another.
- That the spent earth may gather heart again.
- I speak to thee, my heart .
- "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
- The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
- Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
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- 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 * wholeheartedVerb
(en verb)- I heart to pray their bones may rest in peace
- We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
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.
- The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
- My cause is hearted ; thine hath no less reason.