What's the difference between pale and undertone?

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.

Undertone


Definition:

  • (n.) A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (2) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
  • (3) You see from those films, there’s a real sexual undertone of menace.
  • (4) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (5) In a world striving for equal rights, where the female still carries the burden of temporary contraception, the simplicity and popularity of vasectomy for permanent contraception add the desired undertones of social equilibrium.
  • (6) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
  • (7) "There's an undertone of bad politics and corruption.
  • (8) Aside from such stirring political undertones, dramatic battles will be waged across the 82-award field.
  • (9) There are moments of comedy, but there are some unsettling undertones if you choose to look for them.
  • (10) Words matter and remembering that we were all once strangers in a strange land and that the US is made better in every generation by the arrival of New Americans is central to my campaign.” The Republican party is making a safe space for really racist​​ undertones against undocumented immigrants Professor Jose Luis Benavides Vargas wants candidates to understand that their words matter – even more so in a campaign cycle so far dominated by the bombast of a billionaire businessman who began his campaign by describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who are “bringing crime”.
  • (11) But his anti-American undertone alienated Germany and the US from each other – and his rigorous refusal didn't help unify the European countries either.
  • (12) Even when Kerry speaks triumphantly, there is a defensive undertone, as if to anticipate and deflect the criticisms that decades in public life have taught him are headed his way.
  • (13) Adam Goodes has my full support and the full support of the AFL.” The booing Goodes receives from opposition fans has been the subject of much debate with his term as Australian of the year, the way he plays the game and racial undertones all put forward as reasons for the adverse reaction.
  • (14) The note of personal disillusion persists, as so often in Imlah, as an undertone rather than a subject.
  • (15) Lewis Jetta ... clearly believes this to be racist, and it obviously has a racist [undertone].
  • (16) But if Bisping's outlook seems relentlessly positive at times, there is also an undeniable undertone of vulnerability.
  • (17) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
  • (18) Now, obviously there is a question about what sort of evidence there is to back up claims that persistent technology use is detrimental to our lives, but it’s often intrigued me that we don’t really consider the undertone to the use of the word ‘zombie’.
  • (19) Realistically, for us to say there wasn’t some racial undertone would be frankly just untruthful.” Crawford also said that the 911 call about his son, which led to the shooting, would probably not have been made if a white man had been walking around the store with the BB rifle.
  • (20) First of all biological psychiatry, based on the methods of the natural sciences, has been the subject of denunciation and underevaluation with deep emotional undertones.