by heart

See also: byheart

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ ˈhɑːt/
• 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^[1], 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.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     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.

Hyponyms

• by rote (usually pejorative)

Derived terms

• byheart

Translations

knowing completely

• Armenian: անգիր (hy) (angir)
• Azerbaijani: əzbər, əzbərdən, hafizədən, döşdən
• Breton: dindan eñvor (br), dre eñvor
• Bulgarian: наизу́ст (bg) (naizúst)
• Catalan: de cor, de memòria
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靠記憶／靠记忆, 靠记忆 (kào jìyì)

• Czech: zpaměti (cs), nazpaměť (cs)
• Dalmatian: inamiant
• Danish: udenad
• Dutch: uit het hoofd, van buiten
• Esperanto: parkere (eo)
• Faroese: uttanat
• Finnish: ulkoa (fi)
• French: par cœur (fr)
• Georgian: ზეპირად (zeṗirad)
• German: auswendig (de)
• Greek: απέξω (el) (apéxo)
• Hebrew: בְּעַל פֶּה (he) (be'ál pé)
• Hungarian: kívülről (hu), fejből, betéve
• Icelandic: utanað, utanbókar
• Ido: memore (io)
• Italian: a memoria
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• 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: ,
• 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
• Russian: наизу́сть (ru) (naizústʹ), на па́мять (ru) (na pámjatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: air teangaidh
• Serbo-Croatian: napamet (sh)
• Slovak: naspamäť, spamäti
• Spanish: de memoria
• Swedish: utantill (sv)
• Turkish: ezbere (tr), ezberden (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

References

• “by heart”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• breathy