Difference between palm and palmy
Definitions
verb
- touch, lift, or hold with the hands
noun
- a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand
- the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
Examples
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
Race your mate and shake your coconut down through the palm tree!
And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet.
Definitions
adjective
- very lively and profitable
Examples
For commoners, it was umbrella hats made from palmyra or the dried leaf of arecanut palm conically folded like a conjurer's hat.
It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days.
The palmyra palm being the most useful of the species is widely grown in tropical coastal zones.
