Pare vs Parle - What's the difference?
pare | parle |
to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
to trim the hoof of a horse
To talk; to converse; to parley.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between pare and parle
is that pare is to seem, to look, to appear while parle is .As an adjective parle is
colloquial.pare
English
Verb
(par)- We pared the paired pears.
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
Synonyms
* to peel * to skinDerived terms
* cheeseparing * parer * paring * paring knife * pare away * pare down * pare offAnagrams
* ----parle
English
Quotations
* ''"So frowned he once, when in an angry parle * He smote the angry Polacks on the ice – Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 61–62.Verb
- (Shakespeare)
- Finding himself too weak, began to parle .