Crux vs. Heart — What's the Difference?

The essential point.

Center of affection or preference.

The main reason.

The essence of a matter.

Pivotal element in a situation.

Emotional or moral core.

Decisive or most important point.

Most important part.

Critical point in an argument.

Central theme.

Crux () is a constellation centred on four stars in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way. It is among the most easily distinguished constellations as its hallmark (asterism) stars each have an apparent visual magnitude brighter than +2.8, even though it is the smallest of all 88 modern constellations.

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs.

The basic, central, or critical point or feature

A hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles.

A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

The central or innermost part of something

The most difficult portion of an ascent in rock climbing or mountaineering.

A conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top.

See Southern Cross.

The condition of agricultural land as regards fertility

The basic, central, or essential point or feature.

Like very much; love

The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.

The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.

A puzzle or difficulty.

A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.

(climbing) The hardest point of a climb.

The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.

(heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.

The vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities.

Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.

The repository of one's deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs

A small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

The seat of the intellect or imagination

The most important point

Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character

One's prevailing mood or current inclination

Capacity for sympathy or generosity; compassion

Love; affection

Courage; resolution; fortitude

The firmness of will or the callousness required to carry out an unpleasant task or responsibility

A person esteemed or admired as lovable, loyal, or courageous

The central or innermost physical part of a place or region

The core of a plant, fruit, or vegetable, such as a heart of palm.

The most important or essential part

A conventional two-lobed representation of the heart, usually colored red or pink.

A red, heart-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

A playing card with this figure.

Hearts (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

A card game in which the object is either to avoid hearts when taking tricks or to take all the hearts.

(Slang) To have great liking or affection for

(Archaic) To encourage; hearten.

(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

(uncountable) One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

(archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

Memory.

(figurative) A wight or being.

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.

A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

(cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.

(figurative) The centre, essence, or core.

To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.

To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.

To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; - usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, - used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

The locus of feelings and intuitions;

The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body;

The courage to carry on;

An area that is approximately central within some larger region;

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

An inclination or tendency of a certain kind;

A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines;

A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal);

A positive feeling of liking;

A playing card in the major suit of hearts;