ALL meanings of pales
pale
P p - adjective pales light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home. 1
- adjective pales of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow. 1
- adjective pales not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon. 1
- adjective pales faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest. 1
- verb without object pales to become pale: to pale at the sight of blood. 1
- verb without object pales to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else: Platinum is so rare that even gold pales in comparison. 1
- verb with object pales to enclose with pales; fence. 1
- verb with object pales to encircle or encompass. 1
- noun pales a stake or picket, as of a fence. 1
- noun pales an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure. 1
- noun pales an enclosed area. 1
- noun pales limits; bounds: outside the pale of his jurisdiction. 1
- noun pales a district or region within designated bounds. 1
- noun pales (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. 1
- noun pales an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon. 1
- noun pales Shipbuilding. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction. 1
- idioms pales beyond the pale, beyond the limits of propriety, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.: Their public conduct is certainly beyond the pale. 1