different between line vs pale

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?n, IPA^(key): /la?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English l?ne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *l?n?, from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.

The oldest sense of the word is "rope, cord, thread"; from this the senses "path", "continuous mark" were derived.

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
   1. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

      Synonym: straight line

   2. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

      Synonym: line segment

   3. (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
   4. (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
   5. (geography, ‘the line’ or ‘equinoctial line’) The equator.
      • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 1:

        Benin […] is situated nearly under the line, and extends along the coast about 170 miles […] .
   6. (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
   7. (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
   8. (soccer) The goal line.
   9. (motoring) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
3. A hose or pipe, of any size.
   • 1973, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program (US department of the interior):

     There is the possible hazard of an oil spill in case the line breaks but normal pipeline maintenance and safety measures, etc., are designed to prevent large or long continued spillage.

   • 1981 October, Popular Science, volume 219, number 4, page 113:

     To the end of the metal fuel line (where it fits into the carb) you attach a four-foot length of flexible fuel line.

4. Direction, path.

5. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.

6. A clothesline.
7. A letter, a written form of communication.

   Synonyms: epistle, letter, note

8. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.

9. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
10. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
11. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
12. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.

    • The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

13. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

    • The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

14. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
15. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
16. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16^thc.]

    Synonyms: (Canada) lineup, (UK, Ireland) queue
17. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
19. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
20. A small amount of text. Specifically:
    1. A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

       Synonym: row

    2. A verse (in poetry).
    3. A sentence of dialogue, especially [from the later 19^thc.] in a play, movie, or the like.
    4. A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.

21. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. [from earlier 17^thc.]
22. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction. [from later 19^thc.]

23. (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
24. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. [from earlier 19^thc.]

25. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
26. A measure of length:
    1. (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
    2. One twelfth of an inch.
    3. One fortieth of an inch.
27. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
28. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
29. (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

    Synonym: line of engagement
30. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).

31. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
32. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.

    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

33. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
34. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
35. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
36. (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
37. (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.

Derived terms

Related terms

• (geometry) curve, point, segment
• lineage
• lineal
• linear

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
3. (transitive) To form a line along.
4. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
6. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
   • 1897, Daniel Webster Davis, “De Linin’ ub de Hymns”, quoted in Jerma A. Jackson, “Exuberance or Restraint: Music and Religion after Reconstruction”, in Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8078-2860-1, page 15:

     De young folks say ’tain’t stylish to lin’ ’um no mo’; / Dat deys got edikashun, an’ dey wants us all to know / Dey like to hab dar singin’-books a-holin’ fore dar eyes, / An’ sing de hymns right straight along “to manshuns in de skies”.
7. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

8. (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
9. (transitive) To measure.

Derived terms

• line up
• underline

Translations

Etymology 2

Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.

Alternative forms

• lin

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
   • a. 1818, J. C. Atkinson (ed.), North Riding Record Society (publisher), Quarter sessions records VIII p. 52 (compilation of historical records published in 1890, as quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary in 1902):

     To spin 2 lb. of line.

   • 1837, Everett, S. Hick 195:

     Which proved fatal to the line or flax crops.

   • 1858, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, page 409:

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1869, Dixon, Borrowdale, 2:

     T'burring o' t'woo' an' line wheels,

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

2. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
3. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "line"):

• line one's pockets

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French ligner.

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.
   • 1868 September, The Country Gentleman's Magazine, page 292:

     Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black.

Translations

Gallery

References

line in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• LEIN, Neil, Niel, Nile, lien

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English line.

Noun

line f (invariable)

1. line management
2. editing (of a TV programme)

Related terms

• off-line
• on-line

Anagrams

• lenì

Latin

Verb

line

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lin?

References

• line in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyne, lin, lyene
• ligne (influenced by Old French ligne)

Etymology 1

From Old English l?ne, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Some forms and meanings are from Old French ligne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n(?)/

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. rope, cord
2. line, rule, ruler, measure
3. (figuratively) rule, direction, command, edict
4. line, straight mark; also a fictitious line
5. (written) line, verse

Descendants

• English: line

References

• “l?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.

Etymology 2

From Old English l?n.

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li?n?/

Etymology 1

From Latin linea

Alternative forms

• linje

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a continuous mark through two or more points; a succession of ancestors or descendants; the stated position of an individual or group)

Derived terms

• kystline
• skiljeline

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lína

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a strong rope, cord, string, wire)

References

• “line” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”). Akin to Old High German l?na (“line”) (German Leine (“rope”)), Middle Dutch l?ne (“rope, cord”) (Dutch lijn (“rope”)), Old Norse l?na (“cord, rope”) (Danish line (“rope, cord”)), Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?.ne/

Noun

l?ne f

1. line, rope, cable
2. row, series
3. direction, rule

Declension

Related terms

• l?n
• l?nen, linnen

Descendants

• Middle English: line, lyne
  • English: line

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

liné

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Spanish

Noun

line m (plural lines)

1. (rugby) lineout

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?l, IPA^(key): /pe?l/
  • IPA^(key): [p?e???], [p?e??]
• (US)
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: pail

Etymology 1

From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”). Doublet of pallid.

Adjective

pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)

1. Light in color.

   • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”

2. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
3. Feeble, faint.

   He is but a pale shadow of his former self.

Synonyms

• (human skin): See also Thesaurus:pallid

Derived terms

• pale thrush

Translations

Verb

pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)

1. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
2. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

3. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Derived terms

• pale in comparison

Translations

Noun

pale

1. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 589–592:

     The boare (quoth ?he) whereat a ?uddain pale, / Like lawne being ?pred vpon the blu?hing ro?e, / V?urpes her cheeke, ?he trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ?he throwes.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin p?lus (“stake, prop”). English inherited the word pole (or, rather Old English p?l) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word.

Doublet of peel and pole.

Noun

pale (plural pales)

1. A wooden stake; a picket.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,^[4]

     […] if you de?ign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot di?tance, ?et a Po?t with a Mortice in it to ?tand a little ?loping over the ?ide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.

2. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,^[5]

     How are we park’d and bounded in a pale,

     A little herd of England’s timorous deer,

     Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, London: William Welby, p. 13,^[6]

     Fourthly, they ?hall not vpon any occa?ion what?oeuer breake downe any of our pales, or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, i??ues or ports then ordinary [...].

3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
   • 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:^[7]

     But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ?tudious cloy?ters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars ma??y proof, / And ?toried windows richly dight, / Ca?ting a dim religious light.

   • 1900, Jack London, Son of the Wolf:The Wisdom of the Trail:

     Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.

   • 1919, B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:When and Whom to Marry:

     All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter the pale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.

4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
   • 2016 October 19, Jeff Flake, on Twitter:

     .@realDonaldTrump saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale.

5. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
6. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
   1. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
   2. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:

        He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.

      • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 73:

        A low-lying, marshy enclave stretching eighteen miles along the coast and pushing some eight to ten miles inland, the Pale of Calais nestled between French Picardy to the west and, to the east, the imperial-dominated territories of Flanders.

   3. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
7. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
8. A cheese scoop.
9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spencer to this entry?)

Translations

Verb

pale (third-person singular simple present pales, present participle paling, simple past and past participle paled)

1. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 1,^[8]

     […] your i?le, which ?tands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vn?kaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ?uck them vp to th’ Top-ma?t.

Related terms

• impale
• palisade
• pallescent

References

Anagrams

• Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, peal, pela, plea

Afrikaans

Noun

pale

1. plural of paal

Estonian

Noun

pale (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. cheek

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

French

Etymology

From Latin p?la (“shovel, spade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/
• Homophone: pâle (chiefly France)

Noun

pale f (plural pales)

1. blade (of a propeller etc)
2. vane (of a windmill etc)

Further reading

• “pale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Alep, lape, lapé, pela

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French parler (“talk, speak”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.le/

Verb

pale

1. to talk, to speak

Italian

Noun

pale f

1. plural of pala

Anagrams

• alpe, pela

Jakaltek

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish padre (“father”).

Noun

pale

1. priest

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[10] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 17; 39

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (pál?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le?/, [?pä??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le/, [?p??l?]

Noun

pal? f (genitive pal?s); first declension

1. a wrestling

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Etymology 2

Noun

p?le

1. vocative singular of p?lus

References

• pale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pale in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pale in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Lindu

Noun

pale

1. (anatomy) hand

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pal?/, [?pal?]

Participle

pale

1. third-person plural present of pali?

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).

Adjective

pale m or f

1. (Jersey) pale

Synonyms

• bliême

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???l?/

Noun

pale ?

1. worker

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale or paleer, definite plural palea or paleene)

1. alternative spelling of palé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale, definite plural palea)

1. alternative spelling of palé

Old French

Alternative forms

• pasle
• paule

Etymology

From Latin pallidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.l?/

Adjective

pale m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pale)

1. pale, whitish or having little color

Descendants

• English: pale
• French: pâle
• Norman: pale (Jersey)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.l?/
• Homophone: pal?

Noun

pale m

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pal

Noun

pale m

1. locative/vocative singular of pa?

Noun

pale f

1. dative/locative singular of pa?a

Further reading

• pale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

pale (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of paliti

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

pale

1. Pa class inflected form of -le.