Hart definition

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A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after its fifth year.
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The definition of a hart is an adult male European red deer.

An example of a hart is a stag.

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A surname​ anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”).
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A male deer, especially a male red deer over five years old.
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Obsolete spelling of heart.
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(Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) A widely used wired sensor network protocol that dates back to the Bell 202 standard in the 1980s. An extension to the 4-20 mA analog signal, HART superimposes a 1,200 bps signal onto the line that provides bi-directional communications with instruments in the field. See 4-20 mA and WirelessHART.
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An English surname​, originally a nickname from hart, "stag".
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A male of the European red deer, esp. after its fifth year, when the crown antlers are formed; stag.
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Noun

Singular:
hart
Plural:
harts

Origin of hart

  • Middle English from Old English heorot ker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *k̑erudo, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóru (“horn”).

    From Wiktionary

  • See heart

    From Wiktionary

Hart Sentence Examples

  • Jackson and Thomas Hart Benton were later reconciled.

  • From the date when Mr Hart took up his duties at Peking, in 1863, he unceasingly devoted the whole of his energies to the work of the department, with the result that the revenue grew from upwards of eight million taels to nearly twenty-seven million, collected at the thirty-two treaty ports, and the customs staff, which in 1864 numbered 200, reached in 1901 a total of 57 0 4.

  • This was Britain's first American style drugstore and replaced the White Hart pub.

  • It was also " consistent with what we know of his earlier distribution of the badges of the white hart " .

  • The following year they create morph for the BBC's children's program Take Hart.

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