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Bale vs Veil - What's the difference?

bale | veil |

As nouns the difference between bale and veil

is that bale is white spot (on forehead) while veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

As a verb veil is

to don, or garb with, a veil.

bale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
  • Suffering, woe, torment.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
    • That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale .
    Derived terms
    * baleful

    Etymology 2

    Form (etyl) (which may have been the direct source for the English word).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
  • (archaic) A funeral pyre.
  • (archaic) A beacon-fire.
    • Derived terms
    * balefire * baleful

    Etymology 3

    Precise derivation uncertain: perhaps from (etyl) (m), (m), from , from (etyl); or perhaps from (etyl) (m), itself borrowed from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
  • A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
  • A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
  • A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
    • Derived terms
    * bale of dice
    Coordinate terms
    * (measurement of paper) bundle, quire, ream
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (bal)
  • To wrap into a bale.

    • Etymology 4

    Alternative spelling of (bail)

    Verb

    (bal)
  • (British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.

    • See also

    *

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    veil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
    • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
    • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
    • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

    • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
    • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

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