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palp en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pælp/

Etymology

* (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, not-comparable) Palpatory; obtained by palpation.
    • palp blood pressure

Relateds

palpable · palpate · palpability · palpation · palpitate · palpitation · palpiform

palp en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pælp/

Etymology

* (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A fleshy part of a fingertip.
    • The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head. Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck. 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown:
    • He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
    • He tested the blade against the palp of his thumb, then returned to the living room and decisively, scrape by scrape, cut away the hex sign, leaving a halo of ragged wood. 2008, John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:
    • The bag seethed in her hand, not unpleasantly, as computational monofilaments shifted and flowed under her touch until they cradled the palps of her fingers. 2012, Sean Stewart, Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous, Random House, →ISBN:
    • When Mariuchi caresses the plant, for example, sensuously emitting from the palps of her fingers, a siren song. 1998, Renny Christopher, Linda Strom, Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 165:
    • With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows. 1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars, i.i.11:
  2. Synonym of pedipalp.
    • Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache. 2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Pan Books (2016), page 20:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of palpation.
    alt of palpation
    • pain on palp

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
palpi Number=Plur lexicographic
palps Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

palpless · maxillary palp

Synonyms

pulp · pedipalp

palp en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pælp/

Etymology

* (verb): From French palper. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”). * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).

Meanings

  1. To feel, to explore by touch.
    • It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 729:

Forms

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palped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
palped Tense=Past lexicographic
palping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
palps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (4)

bg пипам (to explore by touch) · fi palpoida (to explore by touch) · fi tunnustella (to explore by touch) · bg опипвам (to explore by touch)