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hearting

hearting is the present participle and gerund of heart.

Meaning of heart

Verb

heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)

  1. (humorous, informal, transitive) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
    • We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, “The Heart Has Its Reasons”, in Commonweal
  2. (transitive) To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
    • She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
    Synonyms:
    love
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
    • […]My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  4. (transitive) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
  5. (intransitive) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

See all 22 meanings of heart

Noun

hearting (plural heartings)

  1. Material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry.
    • The masons used rubble from their trimming of the face rocks as some of the hearting for the wall.

Forms of hearting

pluralheartings

Questions about hearting

What does hearting mean?
Hearting means material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry.
What is hearting the present participle and gerund of?
Hearting is the present participle and gerund of heart.
What part of speech is hearting?
Hearting is a noun.
What is the plural of hearting?
The plural of hearting is heartings.

Words near hearting in the dictionary

  1. heartilier
  2. heartiliest
  3. heartily
  4. heartiness
  5. heartinesses
  6. hearting
  7. heartings
  8. heartistic
  9. heartland
  10. heartlander
  11. heartlanders

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