palp
English
Etymology
- (verb): From French palper.
- (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
- Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pælp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ælp
Noun
palp (plural palps or palpi)
- (zoology) Synonym of pedipalp.
Translations
zoology: appendage — see pedipalp
Noun
palp (countable and uncountable, plural palps)
- A fleshy part of a fingertip.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin.
- 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown
- 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.
- 1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars i.i.11:
- With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.
- 1998, Renny Christopher; Linda Strom; Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 165:
- When Mariuchi caresses the plant, for example, sensuously emitting from the palps of her fingers, a siren song.
- 2008, John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:
- 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.
- 2012, Sean Stewart, Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous, Random House, →ISBN:
- 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.
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- (medicine, uncountable, colloquial) Short for palpation.
- pain on palp
Translations
fleshy part of fingertip
palpation — see palpation
Verb
palp (third-person singular simple present palps, present participle palping, simple past and past participle palped)
- To feel, to explore by touch.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 729:
- It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 729:
Translations
to explore by touch
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Adjective
palp (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Palpatory; obtained by palpation.
- palp blood pressure
Related terms
- palpability
- palpable
- palpate
- palpation
- palpiform
- palpitate
- palpitation
Further reading
- palp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- palp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- palp at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Appl., Lapp, appl., plap
Romanian
Noun
palp m (plural palpi)
- Alternative form of palpă
Declension
Declension of palp
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) palp | palpul | (niște) palpi | palpii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) palp | palpului | (unor) palpi | palpilor |
| vocative | palpule | palpilor | ||