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Pail
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.
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Pale (adjective)
Light in color.
“I have pale yellow wallpaper.”
“She had pale skin because she didn’t get much sunlight.”
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Pale (adjective)
Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
“His face turned pale after hearing about his mother’s death.”
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Pale (adjective)
Feeble, faint.
“He is but a pale shadow of his former self.”
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Pale (verb)
To turn pale; to lose colour.
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Pale (verb)
To become insignificant.
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Pale (verb)
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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Pale (verb)
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
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Pale (noun)
Paleness; pallor.
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Pale (noun)
A wooden stake; a picket.
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Pale (noun)
Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
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Pale (noun)
Limits, bounds (especially before of).
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Pale (noun)
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
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Pale (noun)
A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
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Pale (noun)
A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
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Pale (noun)
The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
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Pale (noun)
The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
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Pale (noun)
The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
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Pale (noun)
A cheese scoop.
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Pale (noun)
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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Pail (noun)
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle — used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
“The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.”
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Pail (noun)
(In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
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Pale (adjective)
light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment
“choose pale floral patterns for walls”
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Pale (adjective)
(of a person or their complexion) having less colour than usual, typically as a result of shock, fear, or ill health
“she looked pale and drawn”
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Pale (adjective)
(of a light) not strong or bright
“a pale dawn”
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Pale (adjective)
inferior or unimpressive
“the new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses”
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Pale (verb)
become pale in one’s face from shock or fear
“I paled at the thought of what she might say”
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Pale (verb)
seem or become less important
“all else pales by comparison”
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Pale (noun)
a wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.
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Pale (noun)
a conceptual boundary
“bring these things back within the pale of decency”
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Pale (noun)
an area within determined bounds, or subject to a particular jurisdiction.
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Pale (noun)
another term for English Pale
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Pale (noun)
the areas of Russia to which Jewish residence was formerly restricted.
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Pale (noun)
a broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.