Pale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Light in color.

   “I have pale yellow wallpaper.”

2. sıfat Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

   “His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.”

3. sıfat Feeble, faint.

   “He is but a pale shadow of his former self.”

4. fiil To turn pale; to lose colour.

   “But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie : […]”

5. fiil To become insignificant.

   “Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.”

6. fiil To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

   “The Glow-worme ſhowes the Matine to be neere, / And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire : / Adue, adue, Hamlet : remember me.”

7. isim Paleness; pallor.

   “The boare (quoth ſhe) whereat a ſuddain pale, / Like lawne being ſpred vpon the bluſhing roſe, / Vſurpes her cheeke, ſhe trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ſhe throwes.”

8. isim A wooden stake; a picket.

   “Ceiling joists were sometimes grooved to receive riven staves or pales that secured mud-and-straw walling.”

9. isim A fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

   “How are we park’d and bounded in a pale, / A little herd of England’s timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!”

10. isim Limits, bounds (especially before of).

    “But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.”

11. isim A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
12. isim The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
13. isim The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).

    “He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.”

14. isim A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the Pale of Settlement).
15. isim The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
16. isim A cheese scoop.
17. fiil To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

    “[…] your iſle, which ſtands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vnſkaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ſuck them vp to th’ Top-maſt.”

18. özel isim The part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.