different between palpable vs palp

English

Etymology

From Middle French palpable and its source, Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?palp?b?l/
• (US) enPR: p?l'p?-b?l, IPA^(key): /?pælp?b?l/

Adjective

palpable (comparative more palpable, superlative most palpable)

1. Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.

   Synonyms: tangible, touchable

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, scene 2:

     Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.

   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia":

     I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.

   • 1894, Bret Harte, "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories:

     The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain.

2. Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.

   Synonyms: manifest, noticeable, patent

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu chapter 24:

     Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.

   • 1916, Kathleen Norris, The Heart of Rachael, chapter 7:

     No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.

3. (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.

Derived terms

• palpably

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?l?pa.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pal?pa.ble/

Adjective

palpable (masculine and feminine plural palpables)

1. palpable

Derived terms

• palpablement

Further reading

• “palpable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palpable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “palpable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palpable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.pabl/

Adjective

palpable (plural palpables)

1. palpable

   Antonym: impalpable

Derived terms

• palpablement

Further reading

• “palpable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

palpable m or f (plural palpables)

1. touchable; palpable

References

• “palpable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?pable/, [pal?pa.??le]

Adjective

palpable (plural palpables)

1. palpable

Derived terms

• palpablemente

Further reading

• “palpable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pælp/

Etymology

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

Noun

palp (plural palps or palpi)

1. (zoology) A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating.

   Synonyms: palpus, pedipalp

Noun

palp (countable and uncountable, plural palps)

1. A fleshy part of a fingertip.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     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.

2. (medicine, uncountable, colloquial) Short for palpation.

Synonyms

• (appendage): pedipalp

Translations

Verb

palp (third-person singular simple present palps, present participle palping, simple past and past participle palped)

1. 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.

Translations

Adjective

palp (not comparable)

1. (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