palate

«palate» in Mova's judaism 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 →

2) A person's palate is their sense of taste and what foods they like. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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

• 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 →
• For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food. (Writings JOB.34.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food? (Writings JOB.12.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Writings PSA.119.103, JPS 1917) tree →
• Your tongue touches your palate when you say «t». tree →
• The hard palate is at the front of your mouth. tree →
• The food was too spicy for my palate. tree →
• This dish will please any palate. tree →
• Babies are sometimes born with a cleft palate, which doctors can fix. tree →
• Chefs train their palate to taste small differences. tree →
• I burned my palate on hot pizza. tree →
• My palate prefers sweet things. tree →
• "I can't say it quite suits my palate. tree →

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!
• Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?
• For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «palate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.