Heart vs Sage - What's the difference?
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(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.
* Milton
* 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.
Wise.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
* Milton
A wise person or spiritual teacher; a man or woman of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press (1973), ยง 34:
The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
(Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply
As verbs the difference between heart and sage
is that heart is (transitive|poetic|or|humorous) to be fond of often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol while sage is first-person singular indicative present form of .As a noun heart
is (anatomy) a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.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.
Synonyms
* (to be fond of) love, less than threeStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordssage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sage (11th century), from . The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece .Adjective
(er)- All you sage counsellors, hence!
- commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counselled the general to retreat
- [Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.
Synonyms
* sagaciousNoun
(en noun)- We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage .