Palate vs Pellet - What's the difference?
palate | pellet |
(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/]
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
(heraldiccharge) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
As nouns the difference between palate and pellet
is that palate is (anatomy) the roof of the mouth; the uraniscus while pellet is a small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.As verbs the difference between palate and pellet
is that palate is (nonstandard) to relish; to find palatable while pellet is to form into pellets.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.
Anagrams
* English terms derived from Etruscan ----pellet
English
Noun
(en noun)- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
