"beating heart" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beating hearts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beating heart (plural beating hearts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "_dis": "69 31",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the beating heart of the economy",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC",
          "text": "This was an outstanding Manchester City performance, the old quality back on show, but Foden was its beating heart, the peerless Rodri also playing his part.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The core of a thing; its most essential or important part."
      ],
      "id": "en-beating_heart-en-noun-1a7VoNXI",
      "links": [
        [
          "core",
          "core"
        ],
        [
          "essential",
          "essential"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) The core of a thing; its most essential or important part."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "heart and soul"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "beating-heart transplant",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "be still my beating heart",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beating, heart."
      ],
      "id": "en-beating_heart-en-noun-Xrj9CJ6p",
      "links": [
        [
          "beating",
          "beating#English"
        ],
        [
          "heart",
          "heart#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "word": "heartbeat"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "(figurative)",
          "word": "sykkivä sydän"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "(figurative)",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cœur battant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "(figurative)",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "serce"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beating heart"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beating hearts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beating heart (plural beating hearts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "heartbeat"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the beating heart of the economy",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC",
          "text": "This was an outstanding Manchester City performance, the old quality back on show, but Foden was its beating heart, the peerless Rodri also playing his part.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The core of a thing; its most essential or important part."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "core",
          "core"
        ],
        [
          "essential",
          "essential"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) The core of a thing; its most essential or important part."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "heart and soul"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "beating-heart transplant",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "be still my beating heart",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beating, heart."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beating",
          "beating#English"
        ],
        [
          "heart",
          "heart#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(figurative)",
      "word": "sykkivä sydän"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(figurative)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cœur battant"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "(figurative)",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "serce"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beating heart"
}