pale
IPA: pˈeɪɫ
noun
- (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
- 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.
- (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
- (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
- (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
- (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- (historical) The part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.
verb
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- (intransitive) To become insignificant.
- (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
adjective
- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
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Examples of "pale" in Sentences
- The patient looked pale.
- Patrick is pale and raspy.
- The patient was pale and wan.
- The Moon's Pale Light is Beaming.
- She is still pale and wan from sickness.
- He is bleached out, and has pale skin, dry, frizzled, white hair.
- Her pale skin and willowy clothes give her the appearance of a shy spirit.
- Maleficent appears in the form of a tall, slender, pale green skinned woman.
- He is 6'4 and has sightless blue eyes, pale skin, and strawberry blond hair.
- Her pale skin and willowy clothes give her the appearance of a neglected girl.
- The raw nuts are then cooked, giving off a horrible odor and cracked open to reveal what we know as the pale tan cashew nut.
- Below, we see the children of Charles I of England (by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1637) where the girls are swathed in pale blue and the boy in bold pink:
- Local ones are fleshy, ripe, and burst with flavor, according to local growers n versus what they call the pale, mealy "wannabees" coming from out of state!
- The class of beings signified by a universal term of this sort is indeed prior to the universal term, e.g., the class of pale things to the universal term ˜pale™.
- But even if unorthodox, and pro-Executive, and aggressive, readings of the law are in some cases permissible, what should be beyond the pale is acting in accord with a body of secret law. continue reading ...
- The difference cannot be that our language contains a single word (˜man™) for a rational animal, but no single word for a pale man, for Aristotle has already conceded (1029b28) that we might very well have had a single term (he suggests himation, literally ˜cloak™) for a pale man, but that would still not make the formula ˜pale man™ a definition nor pale man an essence (1030a2).