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HEARTSTRING

Definition: HEARTSTRING

HEARTSTRING

Noun

1. A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HEARTSTRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Modern Usage: HEARTSTRING

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Eye of rabbit, heartstring hum, turn this water into rum. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HEARTSTRING

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEARTSTRING": heartstrings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HEARTSTRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hearstring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HEARTSTRING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-r-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: registrant, restarting, shattering, straighten, straighter.

-2 letters: arresting, gnathites, ingathers, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, serrating, threating.

-3 letters: angriest, astringe, earrings, earthing, estating, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gharries, gitterns, gnathite, gnattier, grainers, granites, granters, hairnets, hearings, hearsing, hearting, herrings, hesitant, inearths, ingather, ingrates, intreats, nitrates, rangiest, regrants, restrain, restring, retirant, retrains, righters, rightest, shearing, starring, starting, straight, strainer, straiten, straiter, stranger, strength, stringer, tangiest, tarriest, terrains, tertians, thirster, tightens, trainers, trashier, trashing, treating.

-4 letters: aigrets, anestri, angrier, anthers, antsier, argents, artiest, artiste, artsier, atheist, athirst, attires, earings, earring, easting, eatings, erasing, errants, gahnite, gainers, gaiters, garners, garnets, garnish, garrets, garters, gastrin, gathers, gharris, gittern, grainer, granite, granter, graters, gratine, gratins, hairnet, hangers, harries, hastier, hasting, hatters, hatting, hearing, heating, hegaris, hegiras, hernias, herring, hingers, hinters, hitters, inearth, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, natters, nattier, nighest, nitrate, rangers, rangier, ranters, ratines, ratings, ratites, rattens, ratters, rattier, ratting, rattish, reagins, rearing, regains, reginas, regrant, rehangs, resight, restart, resting, retains, retinas, retints, retrain, retsina, retting, righter, ringers, ritters, satinet, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, setting, sharing, shatter, sheitan, sierran, sighter, stagier, stainer, staithe, staring, starter, stating, stearin, stengah, sthenia, stinger, stinter, strange, striate, tangier, targets, tarnish, tarries, tarring, tarsier, tarting, tartish, tastier, tasting, tearing, teasing, terrain, territs, tertian, testing, thenars, threats, tighten, tighter, tinters, tithers, trainer, transit, triages.

-5 letters: ageist, agents, aigret, airers, airest, airths, angers, anther, antres, argent, aright, arisen, arrest, arshin, arsine, artier, artist, ashier, ashing, astern, attire, earing, earths, easing, eating, eights, engirt, errant, erring, estrin, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garish, garner, garnet, garret, garter, garths, gasher, gaster, gather, geisha, gerahs, gharri, giants, girths, gnarrs, grains, grants, grater, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, griths, haeing, hanger, haring, hasten, haters, hating, hatter, hearts, hegari, hegira, hernia, hinger, hinges, hinter, hirers, hitter, inerts, ingate, ingest, insert, instar, inters, irater, natter, neighs, nigher, nights, niters, nitres, raiser, ranger, ranges, ranter, rarest, raring, rasher, rasing, raster, raters, rather, ratine, rating, ratite, ratten, ratter, reagin, regain, regina, rehang, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, retags, retain, retina, retint, rights, ringer, rinser, ritter, sagier, saithe, sanger, santir, sating, satire, sering, shairn, shanti, sharer, shiner, shrine, sierra, sigher, signer, signet, singer, sinter, sirrah, sitten, sitter, snarer, snathe, stager, starer, stater, sterna, strain, strait, strang, strath, strati, striae, string, taints, tanist, targes, target, taring, tarres, tarter, taster, taters, tenias, tenths, terais, terras, territ, tetras, thanes, thegns, theins, theirs, theist, thenar, thetas, things, thirst, threat, tigers, tights, tineas, tinges, tinter, tisane, titans, titers, tither, tithes, titres, trains, traits, treats.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: heartstrings, straightener.

 

+2 letters: orchestrating, straighteners.

 

+4 letters: reorchestrating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEARTSTRING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 52 54 53 54 52 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-    .-.    -    ...    -    .-.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0053 0054 0052 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4239355254535452434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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