palm

«palm» in Mova's school dictionary: the inside of your hand, between your wrist and your fingers — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a palm, palms); verb (palm, palms, palmed, palming — palm something off)

meaning for a pupil

1) The palm is the inside of your hand, between your wrist and your fingers. tree →

2) A palm, or palm tree, is a tall tree with no branches and a bunch of big leaves at the top; it grows in warm places. tree →

3) To palm something is to hide it in your hand, as a magician does with a coin. tree →

4) To palm something off is to get rid of something unwanted by giving it to someone else. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science it names a part of the hand and a tree of hot, sunny lands (coconut and date palms); in stories palm trees tell the reader the place is a tropical beach or desert oasis. Phrases: «the palm of your hand», «hold in the palm», «know something like the palm of your hand» (know it very well), «palm tree», «palm oil», «sweaty palms» (a sign of being nervous), «read someone's palm».

examples

• She held the baby bird in the palm of her hand. tree →
• My palms get sweaty before a test. tree →
• Coconuts grow on palm trees. tree →
• We sat in the shade of a palm on the beach in Queensland. tree →
• The magician palmed the coin and it seemed to vanish. tree →
• He tried to palm off his old bike on his little brother. tree →
• Wash the palms and the backs of your hands with soap. tree →
• I know this park like the palm of my hand. tree →
• "I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary. tree →

note

Plural palms. The «l» is silent in many accents: «pahm». Palm (hand) and palm (tree) are spelt the same but are different meanings. Do not confuse with «pam» or «poem». Palm reading (telling the future from lines on the hand) is not science.

In the corpora

• Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.
• Much of the forest has been cleared for palm oil and paper plantations, so many of these animals are now very rare.
• Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest.
• Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones.
• The back of the hand feels heat well, and your palms stay safe for crawling.

Trees and pragmatics

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