heart line
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- noun
- /hɑrt laɪn/
- Jargon
- The shape of your heart line can reveal important insights about your relationships.
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- What do branches going downward from the heart line to cross the headline mean?
Examples
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There, between the two long creases, the ones fortune-tellers call the heart line and the life line, was a small white bead.
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What do branches going downward from the heart line to cross the headline mean?
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And then here is your heart line.
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That is your heart line.
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Aah, this is the heart line.
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A great loss here, pain and heartache, see the break in the life line, the heart line, and the head line.
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I can tell by your heart line that you're a very passionate man.
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"She picked up an ivory stylus and began to point to the lines as she explained the heart line, the head line, the life line....
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That's your heart line.
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In palmistry, a deep heart line indicates a profound emotional sensitivity.
Synonyms
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A line on the palm that people say shows a person's emotions or romantic life
A crease on the palm that palm readers say shows a person's emotional nature
A line on the palm that palm readers say shows a person's feelings
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'heart' (emotions) and 'line' (a crease) cue that this is a crease associated with feelings, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a general meaning of an emotion-related line. However, the specific palmistry sense—that it is a particular crease on the palm used to reveal emotional nature—and the cultural/practical reading of it are not fully predictable from the words alone, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The noun heart line comes from palm reading, where people saw a long line near the top of the palm and connected it to the heart, thinking it showed a person's 'feelings' or love life. That's why palm readers use the heart line to talk about someone's feelings.