Meaning of pale in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Paleness; pallor.

verb

• To turn pale; to lose colour.

• To become insignificant.

• To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

adjective

• Light in color.

  Example: I have pale yellow wallpaper.

• (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

  Example: His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.

• Feeble, faint.

  Example: He is but a pale shadow of his former self.

noun

• A wooden stake; a picket.

• 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.

• A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

• A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

• The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

• A cheese scoop.

• A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

verb

• To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.