What's the difference between pale and sallow?

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.

Sallow


Definition:

  • (n.) The willow; willow twigs.
  • (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
  • (superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
  • (v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
  • (2) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
  • (3) 28.70% had typical facial looks of anaemia and sallow complexion.
  • (4) Clinical changes included decreases in surface roughness, irregular pigmentation, fine and coarse wrinkling, and sallowness.
  • (5) By counting the spores of protozoon Nosema apis Z. in Bürker's chamber the author was able to find, in 1495 caged bees sacrificed one week after the parasite invasion, from altogether 26 samples of various feeds statistically sifnificant differences of influencing the protozoon development only in sallow pollen.
  • (6) Clinically, patients experience decreased wrinkling, improved texture, and pinkening of sallow skin.
  • (7) Many disused railways have been turned into green footpaths, but this had been abandoned and enveloped in hawthorn, sallow and elder, with the occasional fly-tipped fridge thrown from a bridge.
  • (8) The forlorn expression and the sallow complexion, I'm sorry to say, are the model's own.
  • (9) Come, friendly caterpillars Inspired by the landscaping of Milton Keynes (which was conceived as a forest city), I’ve just planted 150 shoots of sallow in my garden.
  • (10) When compared with vehicle, treatment with isotretinoin resulted in statistically significant improvement in overall appearance, fine wrinkling, discrete pigmentation, sallowness, and texture.
  • (11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
  • (12) Unlike the dapper Derrida, Žižek is a sight for sore eyes: pale to the point of sallow, bearded, overweight and effortlessly eccentric.
  • (13) Labour MPs looked sallow, in expectation of defeat.
  • (14) 75% of patients had increased specific IgE-titres against these pollens whereas maple, poplar, elm, sallow and ash allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
  • (15) Her face is sallow; there are shadows under her eyes.
  • (16) Examination of 1260 bees 14 days after the invasion demonstrated that, as compared with glycide food, the parasite development was enhanced by a feed consisting of 6, 9, and 12 per cent fresh rape pollen, 3 and 6 per cent of fresh and dried sallow pollen, 6 per cent freeze-dried pollen mixture, pollen deposited in honeycombs, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 per cent yeast dough, "Arnika" and 3 per cent Bacto peptone.
  • (17) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
  • (18) Chronic renal failure, regardless of its cause, often produces xerosis, pruritus, sallow hyperpigmentation, and nail changes.
  • (19) I was a shallow, sallow, thoroughly unwell shithead with delusions of grandeur, but it was all I knew how to be.
  • (20) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.