different between striking vs palpable
striking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?a?k??/
- Rhymes: -a?k??
Adjective
striking (comparative more striking, superlative most striking)
- Making a strong impression.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
- 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):
- This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.
Translations
Verb
striking
- present participle of strike
Noun
striking (plural strikings)
- The act by which something strikes or is struck.
- 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
- 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
Anagrams
- skirting
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palpable
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- palpable
Derived terms
- palpablemente
Further reading
- “palpable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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