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Hart

//hɑːt// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
  2. 2
    A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
  3. 3
    A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
  4. 4
    A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
  5. 5
    A tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire and ultimately of the Thames; in full, the River Hart.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Oceana County, Michigan.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Winona County, Minnesota.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Macon County, Missouri.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Castro County, Texas.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Hart Township.
  8. 13
    A locality in the Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
  9. 14
    A locality in Wakefield Regional council area, Mid North region, South Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. countable

    "With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d."

  2. 2
    Obsolete spelling of heart. alt-of, obsolete

    "For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, / And I am ſick at hart."

  3. 3
    In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.

    "It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0."

  4. 4
    Initialism of hazardous area response team. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 5
    a male deer, especially an adult male red deer wordnet
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  1. 6
    The meat from this animal. uncountable

    "We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada."

  2. 7
    a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.

Etymology 2

See heart.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of hardware thread. As stated in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: The term hart was introduced in the work on Lithe (Pan et al., 2009) and (Pan et al., 2010) to provide a term to represent an abstract execution resource as opposed to a software thread programming abstraction. RISC-V Foundation The corresponding source reads: Our proposal has two main components. First, we export a new low-level unvirtualized hardware thread abstraction, or hart, from the operating system to applications. […] Heidi Pan, Benjamin Hindman, Krste Asanović

Etymology 4

* As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun hart (“stag”). * As a German surname, variant of Hardt. * As a Jewish/Yiddish and Dutch surname, from derivatives of *hertā (“heart”), *hard(ī) (“hard”), or *herut (“stag”), or converged senses of them. These senses are also translated from other languages such as French Francoeur, Jolicoeur, Vadeboncoeur, and Native American (Cheyenne) Homa'ehesta, from homa'e (“beaver”) + hesta (“heart”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó hAirt (“descendant of Art”), from the noun art (“bear”). Compare Hartin.

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