Palate
['pælət]
Definition
(noun.) the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The roof of the mouth.
(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Editor: Lora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Roof of the mouth.
Edited by Hilda
Definition
n. the roof of the mouth consisting of two portions the hard palate in front and the soft palate behind: taste: relish: mental liking.—v.t. to taste.—adj. Pal′atable agreeable to the palate or taste: savoury.—n. Pal′atableness the quality of being agreeable to the taste.—adv. Pal′atably.—adj. Pal′atal pertaining to the palate: uttered by aid of the palate—also Pal′atine.—n. a letter pronounced chiefly by aid of the palate as k g e i.—v.t. Pal′atalise to make palatal.—adj. Palat′ic.—Cleft palate a congenital defect of the palate leaving a longitudinal fissure in the roof of the mouth.
Edited by Estelle
Examples
- Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I could have pledged him with all my soul, said Athelstane, for my tongue cleaves to my palate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If it be perceived by the eyes, it must be a colour; if by the ears, a sound; if by the palate, a taste; and so of the other senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They arise from the palate, and are attached by flexible membrane to the sides of the mandible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The palate is also covered with hard rounded knobs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The very first scene in Coriolanus came with smart relish to his intellectual palate, and still as he read he warmed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One is to utilize excitement, shock of pleasure, tickling the palate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Imagine his amazement to find clinging to his fingers a substance most luscious to the taste, and most gratifying to the palate! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Pedro