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Pall vs Mantle - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between pall and mantle

is that pall is to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken while mantle is to cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

In intransitive terms the difference between pall and mantle

is that pall is to become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste while mantle is to become covered or concealed.

As nouns the difference between pall and mantle

is that pall is fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes while mantle is a piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

As verbs the difference between pall and mantle

is that pall is to cloak while mantle is to cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

pall

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
  • (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
  • (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
  • (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
  • * Fuller
    • About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
  • (heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
    • Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
  • An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
  • (obsolete) nausea
    • (Shaftesbury)
  • (senseid) A feeling of gloom.
    • A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
    The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
    Derived terms
    * cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulin
    Synonyms
    * (heraldry) pairle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cloak.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Lady Macbeth: 'Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell' (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).

    Etymology 2

    from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • * Atterbury
    • Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
  • To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
    • The liquor palls .
  • * Addison
    • Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
    • We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
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    mantle

    English

    (wikipedia mantle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
  • (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
    • At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
    The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
  • (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
    • the green mantle of the standing pool
  • (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  • * 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
    • Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
  • (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  • The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
  • The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
    • (Raymond)
  • A penstock for a water wheel.
  • (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  • (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  • A fireplace shelf;
  • (heraldry) A mantling.

    • Derived terms

    * assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

    Verb

    (mantl)
  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To become covered or concealed.
  • (of face, cheeks) To flush.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

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