Words and Expressions Related to Palm

Words and Expressions Related to Palm Words and Expressions Related to â€Å"Palm† Words and Expressions Related to â€Å"Palm† By Maeve Maddox I subscribe to a daily trivia email that gives the percentage of the quiz-takers who answer the questions correctly. The questions are rarely difficult, but I have noticed that the percentage of right answers for the more traditional â€Å"general knowledge† questions on history or literature tend to drop into the seventies, while those on rock groups and sports score in the high eighties. Different generations, different interests. Nevertheless, I’m always puzzled by the low scores for questions that seem to contain the answer in the question. For example: The leaves from which tree inspire a palmette design? Palm†¨ Pine †¨Plum†¨ Fern When I saw that question, I said to myself â€Å"Doh!† To me it was like Groucho’s question â€Å"Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?† The percentage of quiz takers that got this one right was 71%. Honest. Palm Lore Two common types of palm tree are palmate and pinnate. palmate: adj. from Latin palma, â€Å"hand.† Having a shape similar to that of a hand with the fingers extended. pinnate: adj. from Latin pinna, â€Å"feather, wing.† Resembling a feather; having parts or branches arranged on each side of a common axis. The Latin word palma also referred to the palm fronds that symbolized victory and were bestowed upon a contest winner or victorious general. The ancient practice is reflected in the English expression to win the palm: to succeed in some endeavor. Military decorations often feature leaves in the design. Leaves on medals awarded to U.S. service personnel tend to favor the laurel and the oak, but the RVN Gallantry Cross features a pinnate palm leaf. Palm has numerous meanings in English. Meanings of palm as a noun: the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the base of the fingers. the similar part of the forefoot of an animal a unit of length equal to either the width or the length of the hand the part of a glove that covers the palm the blade of an oar or paddle the flattened part of the antlers of certain animals Meanings of palm as a verb: to pick up furtively to conceal in the palm of the hand to commit a basketball violation by letting the ball rest momentarily in the palm of the hand while dribbling Like all body part words, palm has given the language many expressions. to palm off: to dispose of or pass off by deception to have an itching palm: to have a strong desire for money (the idea is that the palm must be scratched with coins, i.e. bribe money) In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the grief-stricken Brutus insults his friend Cassius with this expression: Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself Are much condemn’d to have an itching palm, To sell and mart your offices for gold To undeservers. Words that derive from palm: palmate: adj. 1. Of an antler: in which the angles between the tines are partly filled in to form a broad flat surface  2. Of a leaf: having (esp. five) lobes, veins, or leaflets radiating from a common point like the fingers of an outspread hand; 3. Having finger-like branches, esp. diverging from a short or flattened base. 4. Of the foot of a bird or animal: webbed. palmer: n. A pilgrim, esp. one returned from the Holy Land, traditionally carrying a palm branch or palm leaf as a mark of pilgrimage. Chaucer mentions palmers in his prologue to The Canterbury Tales as he lists April activities: Then folk long to go on pilgrimages And palmers [wish] to seek foreign shores To distant shrines famous in various lands palmette: n. An ornamental design used on ancient pottery, and later on furniture, carpets, etc., having narrow radiating divisions and resembling a stylized palm leaf. palmetto:  n. Any of various fan palms, palmistry: n. The art or practice of supposedly reading a persons character or future by examining the lines and other features of the hand, especially the palm and fingers; chiromancy. palmier: n.   In French cookery: a biscuit made of sugared puff pastry, shaped like a palm leaf. palmitic acid: n. a solid saturated fatty acid, CH3(CH2)14COOH, found in palm oil and in many vegetable and animal fats. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:Masters Degree or Master's Degree?Yay, Hooray, Woo-hoo and Other AcclamationsHow Verbs Become Adjectives

4th Grade Lesson Plan for Expanded Notation

4th Grade Lesson Plan for Expanded Notation Students will create, read, and decompose large numbers. Class 4th Grade Duration One or two class periods, 45 minutes each Materials: paper or large note cards numbered 0 - 10 (enough for the whole class)chalkboard, whiteboard, or overhead projector Key Vocabulary place value, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, expanded notation (or expanded form) Objectives Students will demonstrate their understanding of place value to create and read large numbers. Standards Met 4.NBT.2 Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Lesson Introduction Ask a few volunteer students to come to the board and write down the largest number that they can think of and read aloud. Many students will want to put endless numerals on the board, but being able to read the number aloud is a more difficult task! Step-by Step Procedure: Give each student a sheet of paper or large note card with a numeral between 0 - 10.Call two students up to the front of the class. Any two students will work as long as they are not both holding a 0 card.Have them show their numerals to the class. For example, one student is holding a 1 and the other is holding a 7. Ask the class, â€Å"What number do they make when they stand next to each other?† Depending on where they are standing, the new number is 17 or 71. Have students tell you what the numbers mean. For example, with 17, the 7 means 7 ones, and the 1 is really 10.Repeat this process with several other students until you are confident that at least half of the class has mastered the two-digit numbers.Move on to three digit numbers by inviting three students to come to the front of the class. Let’s say that their number is 429. As in the above examples, ask the following questions:What does the 9 mean?What does the 2 mean?What does the 4 mean?As students answer t hese questions, write the numbers down: 9 20 400 429. Tell them that this is called â€Å"expanded notation† or expanded form. The term â€Å"expanded† should make sense to many students because we are taking a number and expanding it into its parts. After doing a few examples at the front of the class, have the students begin writing the expanded notation down as you invite students up to the board. With enough examples on their paper, when it comes to more complex problems, they will be able to use their notes as a reference.Continue adding students to the front of the class until you are working on four-digit numbers, then five-digit, then six. As you move into the thousands, you may want to become the comma that separates thousands and the hundreds, or you can assign the comma to a student. (The student that is always wanting to participate is a good one to assign this to - the comma will be called upon often!) Homework/Assessment You can give your students a choice of assignments  - both are equally long and equally difficult, though in different ways: Have students write 987,654 in expanded notation OR the largest number that they are able to.Have them write 20,006 in expanded notation (Be sure to go over this one in class the next day.) Evaluation Write the following numbers on the board and have students write them in expanded notation:1,78630,551516