Dun vs Pale - What's the difference?
dun | pale |
(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.
Of a brownish grey colour.
* Pierpont
* Keble
(countable) A collector of debts.
* Arbuthnot
* 1933 , (George Orwell), Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. 18:
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:
An urgent request or demand of payment.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
(informal) : (do)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
(humorous)
* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks
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
* 1900 , :
* 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.
As nouns the difference between dun and pale
is that dun is fortress while pale is .As a verb dun
is to close, shut.dun
English
(wikipedia dun)Etymology 1
From (etyl) dun, dunne, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (compare Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from (etyl) (compare Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.Noun
Adjective
(-)- Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
- Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Derived terms
* dun-barSee also
* bawn * durmast oak *Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.Noun
(en noun)- to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun
- Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
- ‘Frank's worried about duns ,’ she said as the butler went away.
- He sent his debtor a dun .
Verb
(dunn)- Hath she sent so soon to dun ?
- Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
- Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
Derived terms
* dun letterEtymology 3
Etymology 4
Etymology 5
See done.Verb
(head)- He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.
- Now, ya dun it!
Etymology 6
See .Etymology 7
Verb
(dunn)Etymology 8
See dune.Etymology 9
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- Has he allowed the power and the repercussions of the Death Note to influence his entire life? How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----pale
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
- (Shakespeare)
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.
- (Simmonds)
- (Spencer)
Verb
(pal)- [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in / With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. — Shakespeare.