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palate

/pal-it/US // ˈpæl ɪt //UK // (ˈpælɪt) //

颚部,腭部,腭裂,上颚

Related Words

bias偏见,偏颇,偏袒,偏心penchant癖好,嗜好,爱好者,偏爱partiality偏袒,偏私,偏袒性,偏心tendency倾向性,趋势,趋向,倾向attraction吸引力,吸引,景点,吸引人inclination倾斜度,倾向性,倾角,倾向preference偏好,喜好,偏爱,倾向性appetite欲望,胃口,食欲,胃口好disposition处置,处置方式,处罚,处分zest热点,热心,热情,热心肠gusto食欲,兴致,兴致勃勃,风情

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion and a posterior muscular portion that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
    • : the sense of taste: It was a dinner to delight the palate.
    • : intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation: She is said to have a discriminating palate for the arts.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to find pleasing to the taste: My friend was very ill and could not palate much of anything.
    • : to find acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings: Your position is hard to palate, because I believe there is such a thing as objective morality.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounaesthetic taste
Forms: palates
Synonyms
bias偏见,偏颇,偏袒,偏心partiality偏袒,偏私,偏袒性,偏心penchant癖好,嗜好,爱好者,偏爱tendency倾向性,趋势,趋向,倾向attraction吸引力,吸引,景点,吸引人inclination倾斜度,倾向性,倾角,倾向preference偏好,喜好,偏爱,倾向性appetite欲望,胃口,食欲,胃口好disposition处置,处置方式,处罚,处分gusto食欲,兴致,兴致勃勃,风情zest热点,热心,热情,热心肠

Examples

  • So then trust me when I say that this magical stack works even better in the morning, when your palate is primed and ready for its unique textural majesty.

  • The very core of food culture is adaptation to new environments, new palates, new people, new ingredients — and these exchanges are not always peaceful or mutually beneficial.

  • None of them should prevail on the other to create the perfect palate mix.

  • It is comfort food at its finest, a thing designed for your specific palate, with absolutely no thought paid to impressing anyone else.

  • Sleeping out in the woods is a palate cleanser for your soul, whether you eat a soggy PB&J by the fire or whip up a four-course meal.

  • That means Japanese whiskies are beautifully balanced and elegant; they touch and develop on every sensor on the palate.

  • And your palate will change as you have new experiences and new selections in the wine world.

  • Oak, great balance and a good finish with stone fruits and just enough oak to round the wine to a silky smooth feel on the palate.

  • Sans country and opera, there is something for most every musical palate at Bonnaroo.

  • By 1987, however, the American palate was beginning to change.

  • The reading public was largely confined to young girls with the taste for romance fresh on the palate.

  • This one has a perforated palate, and this great copper-coloured patches on the forehead, all of them rickety.

  • The Right Spot, as related in the chapter on Ichthyol, is either the vault of the pharynx or the upper surface of the soft palate.

  • My cold and pain in my head increasing, and the palate of my mouth falling, I was in great pain all night.

  • So home, and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed, my head being in great pain and my palate still down.

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