by heart

by heart

See also: byheart

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /baɪ ˈhɑːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /baɪ ˈhɑɹt/

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Prepositional phrase

by heart

1. (idiomatic) From unaided memory and in full detail.

   He used to live in that town, and he still knows all the streets by heart.

   • 1906, The Monthly Musical Record‎, volume 36, page 55:

     You should play over all the pieces you know by heart at least once a month or oftener with the printed copies before you: or all sorts of wrong notes may creep in, and you will be leaving out some crescendo, or rallentando, or sforzato.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.

Usage notes

Usually used with learn or know.

Hyponyms

• by rote (usually pejorative)

Derived terms

• byheart

Translations

knowing completely

Arabic: عَنْ ظَهْرِ ٱلْقَلْبِ‎ (ʿan ẓahri l-qalbi) Armenian: անգիր (hy) (angir) Azerbaijani: əzbər, əzbərdən, hafizədən, döşdən Belarusian: напа́мяць (napámjacʹ) Breton: dindan eñvor (br), dre eñvor Bulgarian: наизу́ст (bg) (naizúst) Catalan: de cor, de memòria Chinese: Mandarin: 靠記憶／靠记忆 (kào jìyì) Czech: zpaměti (cs), nazpaměť (cs) Dalmatian: inamiant Danish: udenad Dutch: uit het hoofd, van buiten Esperanto: parkere (eo) Estonian: peast, pähe Faroese: uttanat Finnish: ulkoa (fi) French: par cœur (fr) Georgian: ზეპირად (zeṗirad) German: auswendig (de) Greek: απέξω (el) (apéxo), αποστηθίζω (el) (apostithízo) Hebrew: בְּעַל פֶּה‎ (he) (be'ál pé) Hungarian: kívülről (hu), fejből, betéve Icelandic: utanað, utanbókar Ido: memore (io) Italian: a memoria Japanese: 暗記して (ja) (あんきして, anki-shite), 空で (そらで, sora-de) Korean: 암기하다 (ko) (amgihada) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ji ber (ku), ezber (ku) Latin: memoriter Lithuanian: mintinai Macedonian: напамет (napamet), наизуст (naizust) Norman: par tchoeu Norwegian: Bokmål: utenat (no) Nynorsk: utanåt, utanboks Persian: از بر‎ (fa) (az bar), از حفظ‎ (az hefz) Polish: na pamięć (pl) Portuguese: de cor (pt), de memória, na ponta da língua, de cabeça Romanian: pe de rost, pe dinafară Russian: наизу́сть (ru) (naizústʹ), на па́мять (ru) (na pámjatʹ), назубо́к (ru) (nazubók) Scottish Gaelic: air teangaidh Serbo-Croatian: napamet (sh) Slovak: naspamäť, spamäti Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: z głowy Upper Sorbian: z hłowy, z pomjatka Spanish: de memoria, de cabeza Swedish: utantill (sv) Turkish: ezbere (tr), ezberden (tr) Ukrainian: на па́м'ять (na pámʺjatʹ) Westrobothnian: uta

References

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Anagrams

• breathy