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# palate

«palate» in Mova's school dictionary: **the roof of your mouth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a palate, palates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your palate is the roof of your mouth. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x1)
- The hard palate is at the front of your mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x2)
- The food was too spicy for my palate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x3)
- This dish will please any palate. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x5)
- Chefs train their palate to taste small differences. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x6)
- I burned my palate on hot pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x7)
- My palate prefers sweet things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/#x8)
- "I can't say it quite suits my palate. [tree →](https://md.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 the corpora

- [How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2268/)
- [Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.293/)
- [For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.880/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «palate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.