different between naked vs bale

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *neg?- (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?k?d/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /?n?k?d/

Adjective

naked (comparative more naked, superlative most naked)

1. Bare, not covered by clothing.

   She was as naked as the day she was born.

2. (obsolete) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
   • 1680, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:

     For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

3. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.

   This is the naked truth.

   The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
4. Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary:

     So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

     The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.

5. (obsolete) Unarmed.
   • 1727, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

     You an’t even with me yet, ?ays ?he; I ?corn as much to take up a Sword again?t a Naked Man; as you ought to have ?corn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.

6. Unaided, unaccompanied.
   • 1579, William Wilkinson, A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue:

     Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.

   • 2001, Asger Aaboe, Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy:

     If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.

7. Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.

   The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.

   I entered her naked and came in her too.

8. (finance, of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.

   a naked put, a naked call

   Synonym: uncovered

9. (literary) Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
   • 1480, anonymous, printed by William Caxton, Cura Sapientiæ; or, The Court of Sapience:

     I knowe my self moost naked in al artes, / My comune ne vulgare eke moost interupte, / And I conversaunte and born in the partes / Where my natyfe langage is moost corrupt, / And with most sundry tonges myxt and rupte.

   • c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant:

     I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ?omething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ?o my Body where you plea?e.

10. (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
    • 1581, Walter Haddon and John Foxe, trans. James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and Against His Slaunderous Inuectiues: An Aunswere Apologeticall: for the Necessary Defence of the Euangelicall Doctrine and Veritie:

      Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.

    • 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrim: Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man, relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of His Regeneration:

      Their eyes were opened to ?ee their nakedne??e: naked they were of diuine protection and fauor, naked of Angelicall guard and cu?todie, naked of Humane puritie and holine??e, naked of dutifull subiection from the rebelling Creatures;

    • 1969, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist:

      I have spent about three weeks at home since Dec 1. As always, I am naked of good article ideas—despite my constant involvement with good subjects.

11. (obsolete) Blank, clean, empty.
    • c. 1660, Robert South, Sermon on John vii. 17.:

      For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.

12. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
13. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.

    I feel naked without my mobile phone.

14. (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.

    a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla); a naked burger (without a bun)

    Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)

15. (physics) Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Synonyms

• bare, bareskin, nude, starkers, unclad, unclothed, butt-naked, bare-assed, in one's birthday suit, skyclad, showing skin
• See also Thesaurus:nude

• (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?kt/

Verb

naked

1. simple past tense and past participle of nake

Anagrams

• Danek, Kaden, knead

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nakid, nakyd, naaked, naket, nakit, nakede

Etymology

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?kid/

Adjective

naked

1. Uncovered; exposed, visible:
   1. Fully bodily uncovered; naked, clothesless or unclothed.
   2. Partially bodily uncovered or bald; uncovered in a specific area.
   3. Of a melee weapon; lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.
   4. Of an wound; exposed; open, showing internals.
   5. Apparent, unveiled, obviously visible (in contrast to a previous state)
2. (often with a item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:
   1. Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.
   2. Unvegetated; lacking plant growth or ground cover.
   3. Bereft of possessions or accoutrements; without one's or its trappings.
3. Put in literal form; without decoration or accoutrements.
4. Referring to the core or substance of something.
5. (rare) Undiluted, unqualified, unconditional.
6. (rare) Restrained, unextended, bound.
7. (rare) Lacking feelings or sympathy.

Related terms

• nakedhed
• nakednesse
• nakidly

Descendants

• English: naked
• Scots: nakit

References

• “n?ked, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

Noun

naked

1. An exposed part of the body.
2. (rare) The state of being naked.

References

• “n?ked, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be??l/, [?be??(?)?], [be???]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: bail

Etymology 1

From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse b?l (“disaster”).

Noun

bale (uncountable)

1. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
2. Suffering, woe, torment.

Derived terms

• baleful

Etymology 2

From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English b?l (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *b?l? (“pyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine; gleam; sparkle”). Cognate with Old Norse bál (which may have been the direct source for the English word).

Noun

bale (plural bales)

1. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
3. (archaic) A beacon-fire.

Derived terms

• balefire

Etymology 3

From Middle English bale (“bale”), from Old French bale and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Doublet of ball.

Noun

bale (plural bales)

1. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:

     So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.

2. A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
3. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
4. A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.

Coordinate terms

• (measurement of paper): bundle, quire, ream

Derived terms

• bale of dice

Translations

Further reading

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)

1. (transitive) To wrap into a bale.

Translations

Etymology 4

Alternative spelling of bail.

Verb

bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)

1. (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.

Translations

Further reading

• Bale in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• -able, Abel, Able, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, beal, blea

Buginese

Noun

bale

1. fish

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of balen

Anagrams

• Abel

French

Alternative forms

• balle

Etymology

From Gaulish *balu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal/

Noun

bale f (uncountable)

1. chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French balai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.le/

Noun

bale

1. broom

Verb

bale

1. to sweep

Javanese

Noun

bale

1. Dated spelling of balé.

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Noun

balé

1. house

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?.

Alternative forms

• balu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?l(?)/

Noun

bale (plural bales)

2. An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
3. Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
4. Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
5. Woe or torment; hurting, agony.

Related terms

• baleful
• bale-siðe

Descendants

• English: bale (dated)

References

• “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Adjective

bale

2. decisive, ruinous, vicious
3. tormentuous, painful, hurtful

References

• “b?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Etymology 2

Either from Old English b?l, Old Norse bál, or a conflation of both; in any case, from Proto-Germanic *b?l?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?l/

Noun

bale

2. Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
3. A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
4. A fire for execution or killing.

Related terms

• bale-fyre

Descendants

• English: bale (archaic)
• Scots: bale

References

• “b?l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Etymology 3

Probably from Old French bale, balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish or Old High German balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

Alternative forms

• bala, ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?l(?)/

Noun

bale (plural bales)

2. A bale (rounded bundle)

Descendants

• English: bale

References

• “b?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “bale”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bale (present tense balar, past tense bala, past participle bala, passive infinitive balast, present participle balande, imperative bal)

1. Alternative form of bala

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophones: Bali (Brazil), vale (Norte of Portugal)
• Hyphenation: ba?le

Verb

bale

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of balar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of balar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of balar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of balar
5. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of balir
6. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of balir

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bal? through analogy.

Noun

bale f pl (plural only)

1. slobber, drool, dribble, saliva

Declension

Synonyms

• saliv?

Derived terms

• b?los

Spanish

Verb

bale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of balar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of balar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of balar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of balar.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bali

Etymology

From Spanish vale, second-person singular present indicative form of valer (“to be worth”), from Old Spanish valer, from Latin val?re, present active infinitive of vale? (“to be worth”), from Proto-Italic *wal??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wl?h?éh?yeti, from *h?welh?- (“to rule, be strong”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bá?le

Noun

bále

1. An advance of money or value; payment in advance.

Conjunction

bále

1. so; Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
2. so; Used to introduce a rhetorical question.

Interjection

bále

1. Used before stating or enumerating the gist or summary of what is being discussed.
2. Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response or when one cannot start to speak.

Adjective

bále

1. with value or importance

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet.

Noun

bale (definite accusative baleyi, plural baleler)

1. ballet