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Definition pale
Etymology 1
From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).
Adjective
pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)
- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- (intransitive) To become insignificant.
- (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Noun
pale
- (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
Etymology 2
From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin p?lus (“stake, prop”). Doublet of peel and pole. The word is also ultimately derived from Latin p?lus (“stake, prop”), although English inherited pole (or, rather Old English p?l) from Proto-Germanic (being an old borrowing).
Noun
pale (plural pales)
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
Verb
pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
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