Definitions for PALE
peɪlpale

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. picket, paleadjective

   a wooden strip forming part of a fence

2. paleadjective

   very light colored; highly diluted with white

   "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

3. pale, pallid, wan, sickadjective

   (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

   "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

4. pale, pallidadjective

   lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

   "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

5. pale, pallid, wanadjective

   abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

   "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

6. paleverb

   not full or rich

   "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

7. pale, blanch, blenchverb

   turn pale, as if in fear

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1. Palenoun

   Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PALEadjective

   Etymology: pale, Fr. pallidus, Lat.

   1. Not ruddy; not fresh of colour; wan; white of look.

   Look I so pale, lord Dorset, as the rest?
   Ay, my good Lord; and no man in the presence;
   But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks. William Shakespeare.

   Was the hope drunk
   Wherein you drest yourself; hath it slept since?
   And wakes it now to look so green and pale. William Shakespeare.

   Tell pale-hearted fear, it lies;
   And sleep in spite of thunder. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   2. Not high coloured; approaching to colourless transparency.

   When the urine turns pale, the patient is in danger. Arbuth.

   3. Not bright; not shining; faint of lustre; dim.

   The night, methinks, is but the day-light sick,
   It looks a little paler. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

2. Palenoun

   Etymology: palus, Latin.

   1. Narrow piece of wood joined above and below to a rail, to inclose grounds.

   Get up o’ th’ rail, I’ll peck you o’er the pales else. William Shakespeare.

   As their example still prevails,
   She tempts the stream, or leaps the pales. Matthew Prior.

   Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. John Mortimer.

   2. Any inclosure.

   A ceremony, which was then judged very convenient for the whole church even by the whole, those few excepted, which brake out of the common pale. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 13.

   Let my due feet never fail
   To walk the studious cloister’s pale,
   And love the high embowed roof. John Milton.

   He hath proposed a standing revelation, so well confirmed by miracles, that it should be needless to recur to them for the conviction of any man born within the pale of christianity. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   Confine the thoughts to exercise the breath;
   And keep them in the pale of words till death. Dunciad.

   3. Any district or territory.

   There is no part but the bare English pale, in which the Irish have not the greatest footing. Edmund Spenser.

   The lords justices put arms into the hands of divers noblemen of that religion, within the pale. Edward Hyde.

   4.The pale is the third and middle part of the scutcheon, being derived from the chief to the base, or nether part of the scutcheon, with two lines. Henry Peacham

3. To Paleverb

   To make pale.

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   The glow worm shews the matin to be near,
   And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   To teach it good and ill, disgrace or fame,
   Pale it with rage, or redden it with shame. Matthew Prior.

4. To Paleverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To inclose with pales.

   The diameter of the hill of twenty foot, may be paled in with twenty deals of a foot broad. John Mortimer, Husb.

   2. To inclose; to encompass.

   Whate’er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,
   Is thine. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopat.

   The English beach
   Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys. William Shakespeare.

   Will you pale your head in Henry’s glory,
   And rob his temples of the diadem,
   Now in his life? William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

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1. pale

   Pale refers to a color, person, or object that is lighter or less intense than usual. It suggests a lack of the usual healthiness or vitality, often because of illness. Pale can also refer to whiteness or lightness in general. It can also signify something that is faint or weak.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Paleverb

   wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue

2. Paleverb

   not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon

3. Palenoun

   paleness; pallor

4. Paleverb

   to turn pale; to lose color or luster

5. Paleverb

   to make pale; to diminish the brightness of

6. Palenoun

   a pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket

7. Palenoun

   that which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade

8. Palenoun

   a space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively

9. Palenoun

   a stripe or band, as on a garment

10. Palenoun

    one of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it

11. Palenoun

    a cheese scoop

12. Palenoun

    a shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened

13. Paleverb

    to inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off

14. Etymology: [F. ple, fr. plir to turn pale, L. pallere to be or look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pale

   pāl, n. a narrow piece of wood driven into the ground for use in enclosing grounds: anything that encloses or fences in: any enclosed field or space: limit: district: a broad stripe from top to bottom of a shield in heraldry.—v.t. to enclose with stakes: to encompass.—n. Palificā′tion, act of strengthening by stakes.—adj. Pal′iform.—English pale, the district in Ireland within which alone the English had power for centuries after the invasion in 1172. [Fr. pal—L. palus, a stake.]

2. Pale

   pāl, adj. somewhat white in colour: not ruddy or fresh: wan: of a faint lustre, dim: light in colour.—v.t. to make pale.—v.i. to turn pale.—ns. Pale′-ale, a light-coloured pleasant bitter ale; Pale′buck, an antelope, the oribi.—adj. Pale′-eyed (Shak.), having the eyes dimmed.—n. Pale′-face, a white person.—adj. Pale′-heart′ed (Shak.), dispirited.—adv. Pale′ly.—n. Pale′ness.—adjs. Pale′-vis′aged (Shak.), having no colour in the face; Pā′lish, somewhat pale. [Fr.,—L. pallidus, pale.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pale

   In heraldry, one of the figures known as ordinaries, consisting of a horizontal band in the middle of the shield, of which it is said to occupy one-third. Several charges of any kind are said to be “in pale” when they stand over each other horizontally, as do the three lions of England. A shield divided through the middle by a horizontal line is said to be “parted per pale.” The pallet is the diminutive of the pale, and is most generally not borne singly. Three pallets gules were the arms of Raymond, count of Provence. When the field is divided into an even number of parts by perpendicular lines, it is called “paly of” so many pieces. When divided by lines perpendicular and bendways crossing, it is called “paly bendy.” An endorse is a further diminutive of the pallet, and a pale placed between two endorses is said to be endorsed.

2. pale

   In Irish history, means that portion of the kingdom over which the English rule and English law were acknowledged. There is so much vagueness in the meaning of the term, that a few words of explanation appear necessary. The vagueness arises from the great fluctuations which the English authority underwent in Ireland at various periods, and from the consequent fluctuation of the actual territorial limits of the Pale. The designation dates from the reign of John, who distributed the portion of Ireland then nominally subject to England into twelve counties palatine, Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Louth, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary, and Limerick. To this entire district, in a general way, was afterwards given the designation of the Pale. But as it may be said that the term is commonly applied by the writers of each age to the actual English territory of the period, and as this varied much, care must be taken to allude to the age of which the name Pale is used. Thus at the close of the reign of Edward III., the English law extended only to the four counties of Dublin, Carlow, Meath, and Louth. In the reign of Henry VI., the limits were still further restricted. In a general way, however, the Pale may be considered as comprising the counties of Dublin, Meath, Carlow, Kilkenny, and Louth. This, although not quite exact, will be sufficient for most purposes.

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1. PALE

   What does PALE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PALE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

2. Pale

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PALE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pale is ranked #55962 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pale surname appeared 366 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pale.
   
   40.4% or 148 total occurrences were White.
   23.2% or 85 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   19.6% or 72 total occurrences were Asian.
   10.9% or 40 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PALE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2842

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PALE' in Adjectives Frequency: #361

Anagrams for PALE »

1. leap

2. plea

3. lepa

4. peal

How to pronounce PALE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PALE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PALE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PALE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of PALE in a Sentence

1. James Tracy:

   I describe myself as a scholar and public intellectual interested in going more deeply into controversial public events, although some may see [my theories] as beyond the pale, I am doing what we should be doing as academics.

2. Brie Larson:

   I had to stay out of the sun to get rather pale, i went on a restrictive diet ... and worked with a trauma specialist to talk about how the brain would organize itself around the sexual abuse and being trapped in a room that long but it didn't stick to me.

3. Ibrahim Hooper:

   This is way beyond the pale, this is basically a call to persecute a religious minority based on nothing other than their faith.

4. Alexander Hamilton:

   In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.

5. Patrick Rothfuss:

   Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PALE
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=PALE
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PALE
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PALE
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=PALE
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html