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# palate

noun (a palate, palates)

«palate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Your palate is the roof of your mouth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#m1)
2. A person's palate is their sense of taste and what foods they like. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about the body it is part of the mouth: the hard palate at the front, the soft palate at the back. In everyday life and cookery it is about taste: «a child's palate». Phrases: «cleft palate», «a sensitive palate», «please the palate».

### Examples

- Your tongue touches your palate when you say «t». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x1)
- The hard palate is at the front of your mouth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x2)
- The food was too spicy for my palate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x3)
- This dish will please any palate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x4)
- Babies are sometimes born with a cleft palate, which doctors can fix. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x5)
- Chefs train their palate to taste small differences. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x6)
- I burned my palate on hot pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x7)
- My palate prefers sweet things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x8)
- "I can't say it quite suits my palate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x9)

### Note

Homophones: «palette» (an artist's board for colours) and «pallet» (a wooden platform for goods). All three sound the same: «PAL-it». Countable noun.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it is one of the five places in the mouth where the letters are made. In Job and the Psalms it is the sense of taste, used as a picture: the ear tests words as the palate tests food, and God's words taste sweeter than honey.

**Interpretation.** The five places of speech are read as a sign that sound itself is part of God's ordered creation. The psalmist's sweet words are read as the joy of studying Torah.

### Examples

- Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palate/#x1)
- For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food. (Writings JOB.34.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palate/#x2)
- Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food? (Writings JOB.12.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palate/#x3)
- How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Writings PSA.119.103, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palate/#x4)

### Note

Homophones: «palette» (an artist's board for colours) and «pallet» (a wooden platform for goods). All three sound the same: «PAL-it». Countable noun.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «palate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/palate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «palate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/palate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/palate.html) on Mova free.