palate (redirected from acquired cleft palate)

pal·ate  (plt)

n.

1. The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.

2. Botany The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.

3. The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate.

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[Middle English, from Old French palat, from Latin paltum, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]

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palate

Noun

1. the roof of the mouth

2. the sense of taste: a range of dishes to tempt every palate [Latin palatum]

USAGE: Avoid confusion with palette or pallet.

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palate  (plt)

The roof of the mouth in vertebrate animals, separating the mouth from the passages of the nose. The bony part of the palate is called the hard palate. A soft, flexible, rear portion of the palate, called the soft palate, is present in mammals only and serves to close off the mouth from the nose during swallowing.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

palate - the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities roof of the mouth mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud - an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue soft palate, velum - a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking hard palate - the bony part of the roof of the mouth surface - the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"

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palate

noun taste, heart, stomach, appetite

USAGE This word is occasionally confused with palette: I have a sweet palate (not palette).

Translations

palate [ˈpælɪt] n → paladar m

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palate [ˈpælɪt] n → palais m (Anat)

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palate [ˈpælɪt] n (Anat) → Gaumen m (= sense of taste); Geschmackssinn m

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palate [ˈpælɪt] n → palato

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palate

n palate [ˈpӕlət]

1 the top of the inside of the mouth. palet حَنَك، سَقْف الفَم небце patro gane der Gaumen ουρανίσκος paladar (kõva) suulagi سق kitalaki palais חֵך तालू nepce szájpadlás langit-langit efri gómur palato 口蓋 구개(口蓋) gomurys aukslējas lelangit gehemelte gane podniebienie palato palat нёбо podnebie nebo nepce gom เพดานปาก damak 上齶 піднебіння تالو vòm miệng 上腭

2 the ability to tell good wine, food etc from bad He has a good palate for wine. smaak ذَوْق، طَعْم разбиране от вино citlivý jazyk gane; smag der Gaumen εκλεπτυσμένη αίσθηση γεύσης paladar maitse ذائقه؛ سلیقه osata arvostaa palais (fin) חוּש טָעָם स्वाद की पहचान okus ízlés citarasa bragðskyn palato 味覚 미각 skonis garša; garšas izjūta selera gehemelte evne som vin– eller matkjenner podniebienie paladar gust (fin) вкус citlivý jazyk okus ukus gom, smak ความรู้สึกในการรับรส damak zevki 鑒賞力 смак ذوق khẩu vị 鉴赏力