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Pale


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
  • (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
  • (n.) Paleness; pallor.
  • (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
  • (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  • (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
  • (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
  • (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
  • (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
  • (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
  • (n.) A cheese scoop.
  • (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (3) The inclusions were large, intracytoplasmic, pale, eosinophilic and kidney-shaped and were periodic acid-Schiff positive and HBsAg negative.
  • (4) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
  • (5) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (6) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
  • (7) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (8) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (9) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
  • (10) The main clinical symptoms were paleness, dark urine and oliguria.
  • (11) In our series of 31 patients, it was found that severe conductive hearing loss, abundant pale granulations, and denuded malleus handle are constant findings and, in our opinion, are significant clinical features of the pathology.
  • (12) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (13) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
  • (14) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
  • (15) Antibodies to Le(a), Le(b), and X showed no staining or only pale staining of less than 10% of the normal prostatic epithelial cells.
  • (16) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (17) The numbers pale in comparison to the 24,000 jobs predicted to disappear from South Australia by the end of 2017 due to the collapse of car manufacturing.
  • (18) The incidence of dysplasia increased with increasing age and was significantly associated with pale skin type, excess sun exposure, and duration of allograft.
  • (19) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (20) I find Harry Reid’s public comments and insults about Donald Trump and other Republicans to be beyond the pale,” she said.

Pane


Definition:

  • (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
  • (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
  • (n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  • (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
  • (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
  • (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  • (n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  • (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The shops on Main Street were mostly empty, paint fraying on the window panes.
  • (2) As the verdicts were read, the defendants shouted but their words could not be heard because of the thick panes of glass installed after a defiant Morsi declared himself the rightful president during earlier sessions.
  • (3) Did you know ChuckleVision is northern – cue archive footage of two men who resemble open-prison inmates moving a pane of invisible glass.
  • (4) Feel my pane After five years avoiding long-haul flights, I was amazed by the transformation of the aeroplane in my absence.
  • (5) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (6) Beautiful, but leaky, single panes squandered the heat rising from the registers immediately below them.
  • (7) You still get to enjoy the delights of 21st century Stockholm though: the hotel is in the trendy Södermalm neighbourhood, close to some of the city’s most popular bars and restaurants, including the burger joint Marie Laveau , the Folkbaren bar (right next to people’s opera house Folkoperan ) and the locals’ all-time favourite, Italian restaurant Pane Vino .
  • (8) You can tuck into pane con la milza , a fried beef spleen sandwich from Sicily, at places such as Sole di Sicilia ( Via Livorno 6 ).
  • (9) It's the same recipe: video clips, editing area, preview pane.
  • (10) These windows no longer have blinds, and I pressed a little button to turn the pane from opaque to clear to admire the snow-capped peaks of Afghanistan.
  • (11) In other streets it would be fancy panes of stained glass in new front doors of white aluminium or freshly-stained wood, or the double-glazing van arriving.
  • (12) What should the novel do: be a mirror to the reader's world, reflecting it back at her, or be a clear pane of glass, not reflecting but offering something away from the self, a vista of a bigger, wider, different world outside?
  • (13) On the other side of the thick pane of bulletproof glass is Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the worst slaughter to blight Europe since the Third Reich, thereafter the world's most wanted fugitive – and now on trial in The Hague.
  • (14) For the most part he seemed dazed, still recovering from the tranquiliser dart, but occasionally he would slant a glance over his shoulder at those eagerly snapping his photograph only metres – and a thick pane of glass – away.
  • (15) The phone now consists of panes of content, stacked vertically, that can come to the top and into view.
  • (16) Panes of glass were missing from some sleeping areas, while in a dining hall some windows were still cracked.
  • (17) When the colonies gained independence 50 years ago, the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) declared the borders immutable – because the alternative would look like a smashed window pane of thousands of warring states .
  • (18) The 57-story Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, a trio of curving glass towers, was the pride of its owners, a gleaming citadel of 1,500 rooms, clad in 3,000 "double-pane acid-etched spandrel glass panels for energy-efficient heating and cooling".
  • (19) "That kind of stayed with me: the notion that good writing is like a window pane on the world.
  • (20) "I have a brother with me everywhere I go – never any others in the venue so I might as well increase the numbers a bit," he says, wryness seeping off the text pane.