palmnoun [ C ]
uk/pɑːm/us/pɑːm/palm noun [ C ] (HAND)
C2 the inside part of your hand from your wrist to the base of your fingers:
to look at the lines on the inside of someone's hand and say what these lines say about their character and future
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- She sighed and rested her chin in the palm of her hand.
- In a tent an old gypsy woman was reading palms.
- You've got horribly sweaty palms.
- He shouted her name and slapped his palms on the table.
- She was clutching a small coin in the palm of her hand.
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The hand
- -fingered
- ball
- carpal
- carpometacarpal
- carpus
- digitorum
- fingerprint
- flat
- knuckle
- little finger
- middle finger
- paw
- pollicis
- right-handed
- ring finger
- thenar
- triquetrum
- two-handed
- volar
- volaris
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palm noun [ C ] (TREE)
C1 also palm tree a tree that grows in hot countries and has a tall trunk with a mass of long pointed leaves at the top:
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Types of evergreen & coniferous tree
- bay
- box
- cedar
- Christmas tree
- conifer
- cypress
- eucalyptus
- fir
- holly
- ironbark
- larch
- laurel
- mallee
- oleander
- pine
- scribbly gum
- sequoia
- spruce
- yew
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Idiom(s)
palmverb [ T ]
uk/pɑːm/us/pɑːm/to make something seem to disappear by hiding it in the palm of your hand as part of a trick, or to steal something by picking it up in a way that will not be noticed:
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Hiding and disguising
- be holed up idiom
- camo
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- concealment
- drown
- hit the deck idiom
- hole up (somewhere)
- illusion
- incognito
- infiltration
- obscure
- sidle
- skulk
- smokescreen
- snuck
- stash
- tuck
- veil
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