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Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
by heart
- From unaided memory and in full detail.
- Hyponym: (usually pejorative) by rote
- to learn something by heart
- to know something by heart
- 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.
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.
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- Arabic: عَنْ ظَهْرِ ٱلْقَلْبِ (ʕan 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), de mémoire (fr), de tête (fr)
- Georgian: ზეპირად (zeṗirad)
- German: auswendig (de)
- Greek: απέξω (el) (apéxo)
- Hebrew: בְּעַל פֶּה (he) (be'ál pé)
- Hungarian: kívülről (hu), fejből, betéve (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)
- 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)
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