Pale vs Ash - What's the difference?
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Light in color.
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*:“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.”
(lb) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 To turn pale; to lose colour.
* Elizabeth Browning
To become insignificant.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
A wooden stake; a picket.
* Mortimer
(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p. 13:
(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
* Milton
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* 1919 , B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, :
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale .
(heraldiccharge) 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:
#* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 73:
# (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.
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
The solid remains of a fire.
(chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
(figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
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(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing .
* 1919 , Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather'', published in the ''Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association , W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
* 1981 , Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods'', ''Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18 , page 203
* 1989? , Annals of Botany , volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
* 2010 , S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition , ISBN 978-1-4419-1477-4, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
(obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
* 1847 , H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment'', published in the ''Genesee Farmer , volume 8, page 281
* 1849 , in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer , volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
(countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus .
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
The traditional name for the ae ligature (), as used in Old English.
As a noun pale
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) pale, from (etyl) .Adjective
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Verb
(pal)- Apt to pale at a trodden worm.
- 2006'
New York Times
''Its financing '''pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, ...
- 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.
- The glowworm shows the matin to be near, / And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Derived terms
* pale in comparisonNoun
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Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) pal, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
- Fourthly, they shall not vpon any occasion whatsoeuer breake downe any of our pales , or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, issues or ports then ordinary [...].
- to walk the studious cloister's pale
- Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Verb
(pal)- [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in / With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. — Shakespeare.
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* English terms with multiple etymologies ----ash
English
(wikipedia ash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ; see it for cognates.Noun
- The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
- Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
- Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
- Ash from the fire floated over the street.
- The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
Derived terms
* Ash Wednesday * ash blonde * ash heap * ash hole * ash pan * ash pit * ash stand * ashcan * ashen * ashtray * ashy * the AshesVerb
(es)- I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath
- The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
- Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
- A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed , and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO3 + Cl ? AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
- Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn
- After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ).Noun
- The ash''' trees are dying off due to emerald '''ash borer.
- The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.