heartbeat
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈhɑrtˌbiːt/
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corazón
- The community center is the heartbeat of local activities, providing a space for gatherings and events.
- heartbeat of the earth
I, I, I talk to these guys all the time because gold and silver and precious metals, they're, they're measuring kind of the heartbeat of a country of the world really.
- I, I, I talk to these guys all the time because gold and silver and precious metals, they're, they're measuring kind of the heartbeat of a country of the world really.
- That emptiness is not touched by the heartbeat.
- But it was really crucial to me that if you see that spot, Kelly is Kelly is the heartbeat of that spot.
- Just chalking up our Arby's because we just need, we need infections of that, of that vibrant heartbeat.
Examples
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She's been the heartbeat of this program.
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But more than that, the play is about how real intimacy is the heartbeat of a meaningful relationship.
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The heartbeat of our golden city on a hill.
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Well, confidence really is the heartbeat of the can do attitude.
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Others say life begins at the heartbeat of a child.
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I was born in Brixton, which is of course the heartbeat of the Black Civil Rights movement in the UK.
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You're the heartbeat of this place, always have been.
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Yet, they (we) are the very backbone and the heartbeat of what this country is all about.
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You're listening to KGAS, the heartbeat of East Texas.
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Larissa felt the impalpable heartbeat of the earth, steady and perpetual.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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2.7
The central part of something, for example an idea or a place
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3.4
The most important part that holds a group or thing together
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4.9
The main thing that keeps something working or alive
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Etymology
Heartbeat is used to mean the 'vital center' of something because it combines heart and beat, and the heart is the body's source of life. So calling a city or group its 'heartbeat' says it is the main source of energy and activity.