As nouns the difference between pail and fail

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while fail is poor quality; substandard workmanship.

As a verb fail is

to be unsuccessful.

As an adjective fail is

that is a failure.

As nouns the difference between pail and hail

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while hail is balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

As a verb hail is

(impersonal) said of the weather when hail is falling or hail can be to greet; give salutation to; salute.

As an adjective hail is

(obsolete) healthy, whole, safe.

As an interjection hail is

an exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

As nouns the difference between pail and pal

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while PAL is acronym of lang=en|Phase Alternating Line or of Phase Alternation Line. (TV standard.

As a proper noun PAL is

initialism of Police Athletic League|lang=en.

As a verb pal is

be friends with, hang around with.

As nouns the difference between pail and pais

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while pais is village.

As nouns the difference between pail and jail

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while jail is a place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

As a verb jail is

to imprison.

As nouns the difference between pail and pall

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while pall is fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

As a verb pall is

to cloak.

As a noun pail

is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) .

As a proper noun vail is

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As nouns the difference between pail and bail

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while bail is security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

As a verb bail is

to secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

As nouns the difference between pail and wail

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while wail is a prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.

As a verb wail is

to cry out, as in sorrow or anguish or wail can be (obsolete) to choose; to select.

As nouns the difference between pail and pawl

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while pawl is a pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (eg on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.

As a verb pawl is

to stop with a pawl.