Found 4 items, similar to Pale.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: pale
pucat
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pale
batas, pucat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pale
pale
adj 1: very light colored; highly diluted with white;
“pale
seagreen”;
“pale blue eyes”
2: (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” [syn:
pallid,
wan]
3: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;
“a pale
rendition of the aria”;
“pale prose with the faint
sweetness of lavender”;
“a pallid performance” [syn:
pallid]
4: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or
emotional distress;
“the pallid face of the invalid”;
“her
wan face suddenly flushed” [syn:
pallid,
wan]
5: not full or rich;
“high, pale, pure and lovely song”
pale
n : a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn:
picket]
pale
v : turn pale, as if in fear [syn:
blanch,
blench]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pale
Pale
\Pale\ (p[=a]l), a. [Compar.
Paler (p[=a]l"[~e]r);
superl.
Palest.] [F. p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L.
pallere to be or look pale. Cf.
Appall,
Fallow,
pall,
v. i.,
Pallid.]
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1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as,
a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
“Pale as a forpined
ghost.” --Chaucer.
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Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton.
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They are not of complexion red or pale. --T.
Randolph.
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2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim;
as, the pale light of the moon.
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The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler. --Shak.
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Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
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Pale
\Pale\, v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to
encompass; to fence off.
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[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak.
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Pale
\Pale\, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
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Pale
\Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Paled (p[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb.
n.
Paling.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
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Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
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Pale
\Pale\, v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak.
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Pale
\Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See
Pole a
stake, and 1st
Pallet.]
1. 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.
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Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
--Mortimer.
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2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
fence; a palisade.
“Within one pale or hedge.”
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
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3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
“To
walk the studious cloister's pale.” --Milton.
“Out of
the pale of civilization.” --Macaulay.
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4. Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not
enclosed or demarcated.
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5. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.
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6. (Her.) 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.
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7. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.
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8. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
fastened.
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English pale,
Irish pale (Hist.), the limits or territory
in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English
conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period
after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172.
See note, below.
beyond the pale outside the limits of what is allowed or
proper; also, outside the limits within which one is
protected. --Spencer.
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Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English
law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of
the English was restricted, for some centuries after
the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of
Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties
palatine, and this region became subsequently known as
the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.
[Century Dict., 1906]