PALM

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Traducere în limba română

palm¹ I. substantiv

1. palmă (a mâinii);

to grease / to oil / to tickle smb.'s palm a mitui pe cineva, a da mită cuiva, a unge pe cineva;

to have an itching palm a fi lacom / avid / cupid;

to have smb. in the palm of one's hand a avea pe cineva la mână.

2. (măsură) (aprox.) lat la palmă, şchioapă (4 incii = 10,16 cm.).

3. palmă (la o mănuşă.).

4. (mar.) palma ancorei.

5. (mar.) gardaman.

6. partea mai lată a unei vâsle (care intră în apă).

palm¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a atinge / a pipăi sau netezi cu palma.

2. a ascunde în palmă, a escamota (cărţi de joc, zaruri).

3. a mitui.

4. (fam.) to palm off a băga pe gât (o marfă proastă unui client); a înşela;

to palm off old stock on smb. a-i băga cuiva pe gât vechituri;

to palm off a bad coin on / upon smb. a plasa cuiva o monedă falsă.

palm² substantiv

1. (bot.) palmier (Palma).

2. ramură de palmier (simbol al victoriei);

to win / to carry / to bear the palm a învinge, a ieşi victorios;

to yield the palm a) a ceda întâietatea; b) a se recunoaşte învins.

3. ramură de salcie cu mâţişori (din cele care se împart de Florii).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He wetted the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and wrist and heart.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

If you wish me to speak more plainly, show me your palm.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Symptoms include: • High fever that lasts longer than 5 days • Swollen lymph nodes in the neck • A rash on the mid-section and genital area • Red, dry, cracked lips and a red, swollen tongue • Red, swollen palms of the hands and soles of the feet • Redness of the eyes

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

And if I could deny her when the tears was on her face, Mas'r Davy, said Ham, tenderly adjusting it on the rough palm of his hand, how could I deny her when she give me this to carry for her—knowing what she brought it for?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He received it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterwards turned it several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve,) but could make nothing of it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

All this country that I passed over to-night is as flat and clean as the palm of your hand, and the man we are following is no fool, as he very clearly showed to-night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How different was her palm!

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was some time before either I or the captain seemed to gather our senses, but at length, and about at the same moment, I released his wrist, which I was still holding, and he drew in his hand and looked sharply into the palm.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He reached in his pocket and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into my palm.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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