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pale
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)
- 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. […]”
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- 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)
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- (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.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Derived terms
- pale in comparison
Translations
Noun
pale
- (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.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 589–592:
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)
- 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.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,[4]
- (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 [...].
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[5]
- (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.
- 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]
- 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.
- 2016 October 19, Jeff Flake, on Twitter:
- (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
- (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.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:
- (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
- (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- 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)
- 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.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
Related terms
- impale
- palisade
- pallescent
References
Anagrams
- Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, peal, pela, plea
Afrikaans
Noun
pale
- plural of paal
Estonian
Noun
pale (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- 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)
- blade (of a propeller etc)
- 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
- to talk, to speak
Italian
Noun
pale f
- plural of pala
Anagrams
- alpe, pela
Jakaltek
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish padre (“father”).
Noun
pale
- 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
- a wrestling
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
Etymology 2
Noun
p?le
- 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
- (anatomy) hand
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pal?/, [?pal?]
Participle
pale
- third-person plural present of pali?
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”).
Adjective
pale m or f
- (Jersey) pale
Synonyms
- bliême
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???l?/
Noun
pale ?
- worker
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale or paleer, definite plural palea or paleene)
- alternative spelling of palé
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
pale n (definite singular paleet, indefinite plural pale, definite plural palea)
- 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)
- 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
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pal
Noun
pale m
- locative/vocative singular of pa?
Noun
pale f
- dative/locative singular of pa?a
Further reading
- pale in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
pale (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of paliti
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
pale
- Pa class inflected form of -le.
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limit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?m?t/
- (India) IPA(key): /?l?m?t/, /?l?mt/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin l?mes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”).
Noun
limit (plural limits)
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 21:
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]
- 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit
- Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
Adjective
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
See also
- bound
- function
Etymology 2
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin l?mit? (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from l?mes; see noun.
Verb
limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)
- (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
- (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
- (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Synonyms
- (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Further reading
- limit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- limit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- limit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- milit.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?m?t]
Noun
limit m
- limit
Related terms
- limita
- limitní
- limitovat
Further reading
- limit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- limit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Hungarian
Etymology
From English limit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?limit]
- Hyphenation: li?mit
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
limit (plural limitek)
- limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)
Declension
References
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Limit.
Noun
lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- boundary
- boundary that cannot be surpassed
Declension
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li.mit/
Noun
limit
- frequency
- closeness; compactness; density
Synonyms
- kalimitan
Derived terms
- malimit
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