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词汇 palm
释义 palm
noun[ C ]
uk /pɑːm/ us /pɑːm/

palmnoun[C] (HAND)


C2
the inside part of your hand from your wrist to the base of your fingers: 手掌,手心
the palm of your handThis tiny device fits into the palm of your hand.这种微型装置可以放入你的掌心。
 
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 read someone's palm
to look at the lines on the inside of someone's hand and say what these lines say about their character and future: 给(某人)看手相(算命)
Give me your hand and let me read your palm.
She sighed and rested her chin in the palm of her hand.
In a tent an old gypsy woman was reading palms.帐篷里,一个吉普赛老妇人正在给人看手相。
You've got horribly sweaty palms.
He shouted her name and slapped his palms on the table.
She was clutching a small coin in the palm of her hand.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The hand
ambidextrous
carpal
carpometacarpal
carpus
dexterity
dexterous
finger
fingermark
fingernail
forefinger
heel
manually
median nerve
metacarpal
metacarpophalangeal
metacarpus
minimus
mitt
nail
volaris

palmnoun[C] (TREE)


C1(alsopalm tree)
a tree that grows in hot countries and has a tall trunk with a mass of long pointed leaves at the top: 棕榈树
date palms枣椰树
palm frondThe roofs of the huts are made from palm fronds.
The island has long golden beaches fringed by palm trees.这个小岛周围金色海滩绵延,环抱于绿色的棕榈中。
 
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See also
royal palm
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of evergreen & coniferous tree
araucaria
arborvitae
arbutus
areca
Atlantic white cedar
eastern hemlock
Eastern white pine
eucalyptus
ficus
fir
mallee
monkey puzzle
mountain laurel
Norfolk Island pine
Norway spruce
scrub pine
sequoia
silver fir
Sitka spruce
strawberry tree

Idiom


have someone in the palm of your hand
palm
verb[ T ]
uk /pɑːm/ us /pɑːm/

palmverb[T] (HIDE)


to make something seem to disappear by hiding it in the palm of your hand as part of a trick, or to steal something by picking it up in a way that will not be noticed: (变戏法或偷窃时)把…藏在手心内
I suspected that he had palmed a playing card.我怀疑他把一张纸牌藏在了手心里。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hiding and disguising
be holed upidiom
booby trap
camo
camouflaged
cloak
fig leaf
hit the deckidiom
hole up (somewhere)
illusion
illusionistically
illusively
lurk
secrete
shroud
shut
shut someone/something out
sidle
skulk
smokescreen
submerge

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Stealing

palmverb[T] (SPORT)


In football, if the goalkeeper palms the ball, they hit it with the flat part of their hand to try to stop it going into the goal. :
The goalkeeper palmed a powerful header to safety.
be palmed awayThe shot was palmed away by the keeper.
in basketball, to hold the ball in your hand for a short time while dribbling(= moving the ball by repeatedly hitting it against the floor with your hand), in a way that is against the rules:
palm the ballHe disagreed with coaches who claimed a player palmed the ball consistently.
Robinson stretched to palm the ball clear.
She palmed a point-blank shot over the bar one-handed.
He is saying that Larson travels and that he palms the ball.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Football/soccer
18-yard box
2 3 5
4 3 2 1
4 4 2
4 5 1
foosball
football boot
football player
football pools
football pyramid
premiership
professional foul
promedios
rabona
reducer
sweeper
the Football League
the Premier League
treble
woodwork

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Basketball, netball & volleyball

Phrasal verbs


palm something off
palm someone off with something

palm | American Dictionary


palm
noun[ C ]
us/pɑm, pɑlm/
the inside part of your hand from your wrist to the base of your fingers:
I wiped my palm on my shirt.

Idiom


in the palm of your hand

Examples of palm


palm
He shows me the calluses on his palms.
Since the palms were planted in equilateral triangles, canopy closure could be calculated from the planting density and approximate crown radius.
The child placed his/her hands, palms up, on a board and the scanner was situated 6 inches above the pair of open hands.
In addition, phytoliths of palms were recovered in the sample.
Transmission trials were conducted by regularly applying soil from around diseased palms over several months.
Moreover, partial compensation occurs in production gains recorded on palms next to dead palms.
The project also entails helping local people near the camps to plant perennials such as coffee trees and oil palms.
In these two areas we searched for palms and other plants with large leaves that were modified into tents.
They were hidden using palms in order to avoid exciting the captured animals, and the wire floor was covered with dead leaves.
After the attack, trees could be dominated by the understorey trees and palms which constitute a physical obstacle.
The data presented herein are part of forest inventories considering all size classes of trees and palms.
Patients with excessive sweating on: palms 77%, underarms 20%, and face 3%.
Ten of the solitary palms were selected at random for controls, and ten for exclosure treatments.
The total number of palms in this plot was 166.
Although both families use open palms, the pragmatic functions are different.
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Collocations withpalm


palm

These are words often used in combination with palm.

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oil palm plantation
There were more understorey beetles in the acacia plantation, which has more ground cover, compared with the oil palm plantation (see figs 4 and 8b).
open palm
I say that the openpalm for help and the open mouth of denunciation is basically a fraudulent view to put to the electorate.
From the
Hansard archive

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palm frond
She wears blue robes and a crown, and holds a sceptre in her left hand and a palmfrond in her right.
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