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Pal vs Bedfellow - What's the difference?

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Pal is a related term of bedfellow.


As nouns the difference between pal and bedfellow

is that pal is pole, post while bedfellow is one with whom one shares a bed.

pal

English

(wikipedia PAL)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (television, uncountable) or of (Phase Alternation Line). (TV standard)
  • (electronics, countable) .

    • Derived terms

    * (television) PALplus

    Related terms

    * (electronics) PLA

    See also

    * (television) NTSC , SECAM * (electronics) PIC , FPGA

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)

    • Anagrams

    *

    bedfellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One with whom one shares a bed.
  • * 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .
    • ''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
    ''Whither away, or where is thy abode?
    ''Happy the parents of so fair a child;
    ''Happier the man whom favourable stars
    Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .
  • An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
  • * 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux , Chapter 40.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Statistics and truth can be uneasy bedfellows when it comes to football, but one fact could not be ignored: neither side has a player with more than seven goals to his name.}}

    Synonyms

    * (one with whom one shares a bed) bedmate

    Derived terms

    * strange bedfellows