Palo Alto
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- proper noun
- /ˈpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/
- And then they started out focusing on Stanford and then Palo Alto and they went to other suburbs.
- Palo Alto, Calif.
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- And then they started out focusing on Stanford and then Palo Alto and they went to other suburbs.
- We had some that drove through dense urban environments like in downtown Palo Alto and through San Francisco.
- He was, but you know, his move to Palo Alto really made everyone sit up and take notice.
- Xerox senior management in upstate New York didn't care about what had been developed in Palo Alto.
- That school now has the same star test scores as the top three performing elementary schools in Palo Alto.
- Maybe the next Silicon Valley will not be San Francisco or Palo Alto, but the global Internet city.
- I just want to say that as an observer from Palo Alto these days, the structural things, though, I think are pretty bad because Putin fears us.
Examples
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Today, Crowley occasionally serves as a startup mentor in the city, taking meetings with students and nascent entrepreneurs in New York the way respected tech veterans have long done in Palo Alto or San Francisco.
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Maybe the next Silicon Valley will not be San Francisco or Palo Alto, but the global Internet city.
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The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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Depending on his emotional maturity and after gauging his interest in engineering, he may decide that being in Palo Alto has far more to offer in the long run.
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I'm a Co founding partner at Floodgate which is a seed stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto, CA.
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The company plans to develop what it calls a digital economy training center in East Palo Alto, Calif., in coordination with the Rainbow/Push Coalition, which helps area residents gain job skills.
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The Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm Accel Partners made only a few investments in New York between 2008 and 2011, but now it has about 18 there, making it the firm's second-largest investment area behind Silicon Valley.
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Rosemarie Anderson, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 744 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303.
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Many startups are based in Palo Alto, making it a hotspot for innovation in technology.
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The annual tech conference will be held in Palo Alto, attracting industry leaders from around the world.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Palo + Alto
Palo Alto is a toponym (a city name) whose referent (a university town in Silicon Valley) is not derivable from the literal meanings of its parts. The constituent items are non‑English items here (no dictionary senses given), and even if a learner knew the Spanish literal senses ('palo' = stick, 'alto' = high), that literal composition would not yield the concept of a Californian city, so the expression is opaque to learners.
Etymology
Palo Alto comes from Spanish words palo 'tree' and alto 'tall'. One popular story says the town was named for a very tall redwood called 'El Palo Alto' that stood by a creek and helped people find the place, so the city's name today still points back to that tall tree.