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palate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cleft palate soft palate COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE cleft ▪ Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva. ▪ Katya was born with a bilateral hare lip and cleft ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palate \Pal"ate\, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat.] (Anat.) The roof of the mouth. Note: The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals . It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity . A similar structure is found in crocodilians , but, in most other tetrapods , the oral and nasal cavities are not truly separate. The ...
Usage examples of palate.
She sat cross-legged on a cushion in front of him, dipping into a dozen bowls, dishes, plates, and feeding him with balls that exploded in a pink glow inside his stomach, others that cooled and dulcified his palate.
If his own remaining years were to pass in moderate tranquility, if his heir was to be unharassed by fraternal cares, if the bouquet of the Dromio wines and the pile of the Dromio carpets were to regain that excellence which would come only from the superintendence of a eupeptic palate and untroubled eye, then it was essential that the late decisive action of Lady Dromio should be met by countermeasures of a like decisiveness.
Mediterranean palate, he brought them out with a clarity, a euphony, one might almost say a plasticity, that was truly refreshing.
FORM Through the lowering of the pillars of the fauces, which is the same as raising the soft palate, the outflowing breath is divided into two parts.
When the soft palate is raised high behind the nose, the pillars of the fauces are lowered, and this frees the way for the main stream of breath to the head cavities.
The pillars of the fauces must necessarily be relaxed by this action of the soft palate.
SECTION XIX EXTENSION OF THE COMPASS AND EQUALIZATION OF REGISTERS The whole secret of both consists in the proper raising and lowering of the soft palate, and the pillars of the fauces connected with it.
The larynx must rise and descend unimpeded by the tongue, soft palate and pillars of the fauces rise and sink, the soft palate always able more or less to press close to the hard.
She parted her lips, her tongue brushed the tip of his and a shiver ran down her spine as the taste of aged Scotch and Fayne dazzled her palate.
But once it has done its magic in the frying pan and on our palate, it simply disappears down the drain.
All were speaking with horrible goitrous voices as if they had cleft palates, and the husband was hoarse with fury.
It was as if, by some act of retrospective gustation possible to the initiate, he was recalling the tang of that bottle to his palate.
We had had no meat for dinner, and my delicate palate was not oversatisfied.
Lorraine, caesar salad with arugula, sangria and similar enticements to the sophisticated palates of prosperous out of town visitors where hoagies and a Bud by local custom had hitherto prevailed.
Is it because a liquorish palate, or a sweet-tooth, as they call it, is not consistent with the sanctity of his character?