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Palate vs Obturator - What's the difference?

palate | obturator |

As nouns the difference between palate and obturator

is that palate is the roof of the mouth; the uraniscus while obturator is an object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.

As a verb palate

is to relish; to find palatable.

palate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
  • (figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  • (botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

    • Derived terms

    * palatable * palatal * palatally * hard palate * soft palate

    Verb

    (palat)
  • (nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.
  • * Wired [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/film-culturomics/]
    • "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate ," said Sreenivasan.

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    obturator

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia obturator) (en noun)
  • (surgery) An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
  • (engineering) Valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.) (reference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) OM Code).
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