my heart leapt

  • 1heart — W1S1 [ha:t US ha:rt] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑lung, ↑muscles, ↑stoma …

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  • 2heart — noun 1 BODY ORGAN (C) the organ in your chest which pumps blood through your body: Eating too many fatty foods is bad for the heart. | My heart was beating so fast I thought it would burst. | have heart trouble/have a heart condition (=have… …

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  • 3Leapt — Leap Leap (l[=e]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaped} (l[=e]pt; 277), rarely {Leapt} (l[=e]pt or l[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaping}.] [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hle[ a]pan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. [=a]hl[=o]pan, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G.… …

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  • 4somebody's heart leaps — sb s heart ˈleaps idiom used to say that sb has a sudden feeling of happiness or excitement • My heart leapt at the news. Main entry: ↑heartidiom …

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  • 5your heart leaps — ◇ When your heart leaps, you become very happy or joyful about something. Our hearts leapt when we heard that she had won. • • • Main Entry: ↑heart your heart leaps see ↑heart • • • Main Entry: ↑leap …

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  • 6The Starlight Express — is a children s play by Violet Pearn, [Dramatist Violet Pearn, born at Plymouth in 1890, was the author of many plays, and adapted several of Algernon Blackwood s tales.] based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon… …

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  • 7Nabíl-i-Akbar — Áqá Muḥammad i Qá iní (1829 1892) also known as Fadil i Qa ini (the Learned One of Qa ín) surnamed Nabíl i Akbar (Arabic: نبيل الأكبر‎), was a distinguished Bahá í from the town of Qá in. He is one of 19 Apostles of Bahá u lláh, and referred to… …

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  • 8ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …

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  • 9leap — leap1 [li:p] v past tense and past participle leapt [lept] especially BrE leaped especially AmE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(jump)¦ 2¦(move fast)¦ 3¦(increase)¦ 4 leap at the chance/opportunity 5 leap to somebody s defence 6¦(heart)¦ Phrasal verbs   …

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  • 10leap — 1 verb past tense and past participle leapt, especially BrE leaped especially AmE 1 JUMP a) (intransitive always + adv/prep) to jump high into the air or to jump in order to land in a different place: Jen leapt across the stream. b) (T) literary… …

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