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US
/ˈpɑɫm, ˈpɑm/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːm/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːm/ ]
VERB
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touch, lift, or hold with the hands
Don't handle the merchandise
NOUN
- a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand
- the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
How To Use palm In A Sentence
- Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
- And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
- Race your mate and shake your coconut down through the palm tree!
- Along the rural lanes beyond Arambol, old farmhouses are enclosed in latticed palm shade.
- Singapore has many native species of palm.
- The filly's head whirled around and she nickered softly before fumbling toward me, nudging my palm as I held my hand out.
- Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
- Although, the protein utilized a number of fatty acids as substrate such as propionic acid, hexanoic acid, decanoic acid, lauric acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid (data not shown) as is the case with many other known Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetases PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Oh, damn the lousy tribe of them!" cried he, beating his palm upon the table; "what's Long Davie the dempster thinking of to be letting such folk come scorning here? Doom Castle
- As Hayden recalled the velvety softness of her breast against his palm, a pang of guilt stabbed him. One Night Of Scandal