Definitions for Pales

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Pales pale

Spelling: [peyl]

IPA: /peɪl/

Pales is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Pales (aelps).

Definitions for Pales

noun

1. a stake or picket, as of a fence.
2. an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.
3. an enclosed area.
4. limits; bounds:
5. a district or region within designated bounds.
6. (initial capital letter). Also called English Pale, Irish Pale. a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.
7. an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon.
8. Shipbuilding. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.

Idioms

1. beyond the pale, beyond the limits of propriety, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.:

adjective

1. light-colored or lacking in color: lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.:
2. of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray:
3. not bright or brilliant; dim:
4. faint or feeble; lacking vigor:

verb (used with object)

1. to make pale.
2. to enclose with pales; fence.
3. to encircle or encompass.

verb (used without object)

1. to become pale:
2. to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else:

Origin of Pales

1250-1300; Middle English Middle French Latin pallidus pallid

Examples for Pales

pales before the drastic preachment of the Norwich scientist.

I think that whatever this book may accomplish, it pales in comparison to that.

For pales and weather boards this varnish is superior to paint, and much cheaper than what is commonly used for that purpose.

All this pales, of course, to the case of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback “Big Ben” Roethlisberger.

pales, protectress of flocks, gives her name to the Palatine Hill.

The violence in Libya pales in comparison with the thousands of civilians who have fallen in Mexico.

Splash and hiss comes the water; pales, then flares out, the fire!

It also pales in comparison to the $303 billion in total annual private giving by U.S. citizens.

But that pales in comparison to the biggest alteration—the ending.

It is not right to live the slave of pales, or become the rhapsode of docks and nettles.