Pale vs Page - What's the difference?
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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
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* 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.
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
(label) The type set up for printing a page.
(label) A web page.
(label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
To turn several pages of a publication.
To furnish with folios.
(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
A boy child.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
To attend (someone) as a page.
To call or summon (someone).
To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
As a noun pale
is .As a proper noun page is
for someone who was a servant.pale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) pale, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
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.
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English
(wikipedia page)Etymology 1
Via (etyl) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Synonyms
* (side of a leaf) side * account, recordDerived terms
(Terms derived from "page") * on the same page * page in, page out * page-turner *Verb
(pag)- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.Noun
(en noun)- A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
Synonyms
* (serving boy) page boy * (boy child) boyVerb
(pag)- (Shakespeare)
- I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?