Malate vs Palate - What's the difference?
malate | palate |
(anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
The sense of taste.
(figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
* Alexander Pope
(figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.
* Wired [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/film-culturomics/]
As nouns the difference between malate and palate
is that malate is (organic chemistry) a salt or ester of malic acid while palate is (anatomy) the roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.As a verb palate is
(nonstandard) to relish; to find palatable.palate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
Derived terms
* palatable * palatal * palatally * hard palate * soft palateVerb
(palat)- "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate ," said Sreenivasan.