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by_heart

by heart

See also: byheart

English

Prepositional phrase

(idiomatic) Knowing completely; as having committed completely to memory.
He used to live in that town, and he still knows all the streets by heart.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, 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.

Derived terms

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Translations

knowing completely

Armenian: անգիր (hy) ‎(angir)
Breton: dindan eñvor (br), dre eñvor
Catalan: de cor, de memòria
Chinese:
Mandarin: 靠記憶, 靠记忆 ‎(kào jìyì)
Czech: zpaměti (cs), nazpaměť
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: בעל-פה ‎(be'al-pé)

Hungarian: kívülről (hu)
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)
Macedonian: напамет ‎(napamet), наизуст ‎(naizust)
Norman: par tchoeu
Kurdish: ji ber (ku), ezber (ku)
Latin: memoriter
Norwegian:

Bokmål: utenat (no)

Nynorsk: utanåt
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 ‎(na pámjatʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: air teangaidh
Serbo-Croatian: napamet (sh)
Slovak: naspamäť, spamäti
Spanish: de memoria
Swedish: utantill (sv)
Turkish: ezbere (tr), ezberden (tr)

Anagrams

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