"heartstrings" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɑːtstɹɪŋz/ [UK] Audio: en-us-heartstrings.ogg [US]
Etymology: From heart + strings. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|heart|strings}} heart + strings Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} heartstrings pl (plural only)
  1. (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. Tags: obsolete, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (the tendons once thought to brace the heart): 心弦 (xīnxián) (Chinese Mandarin), 琴線 (kinsen) (alt: きんせん) (Japanese), hjerterøtter [feminine, masculine, plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), серде́чные стру́ны (serdéčnyje strúny) [feminine, plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-heartstrings-en-noun-HSpx8Ghj Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'the tendons once thought to brace the heart': 89 2 9
  2. (figurative) One's deepest emotions or inner feelings. Tags: figuratively, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (one's deepest emotions or inner feelings): 心弦 (xīnxián) (Chinese Mandarin), innerste Gefühle [neuter, plural, singular] (German), 琴線 (kinsen) (alt: きんせん) (Japanese), hjerterøtter [feminine, masculine, plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), глубоча́йшие чу́вства (glubočájšije čúvstva) [neuter, plural] (Russian), тайники́ души́ (tajnikí duší) [masculine, plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-heartstrings-en-noun-s-8luXgH Disambiguation of Emotions: 21 51 28 Disambiguation of "one's deepest emotions or inner feelings": 2 95 3
  3. (anatomy) The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms (cord-like tendons): chorda tendinea, chordae tendineae Translations (cord-like tendons in the heart): peesdraden [plural] (Dutch), Sehnenfäden (German), corda tendinea [feminine] (Italian), hjerterøtter [feminine, masculine, plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), cordas tendíneas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), srčane niti [Bosnian] (Serbo-Croatian), cuerdas tendinosas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), bagting ng puso (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-heartstrings-en-noun-m-Eo7mms Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 26 51 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 19 21 60 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'cord-like tendons': 19 6 75 Disambiguation of 'cord-like tendons in the heart': 26 4 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: heart-strings, heart strings Derived forms: play on someone's heartstrings

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.