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Bucket vs. Pale — What's the Difference?

Bucket vs. Pale — What's the Difference?

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Bucket

A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container.

Pale

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment
Choose pale floral patterns for walls

Bucket

A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.

Pale

Inferior or unimpressive
The new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses

Bucket

The amount that a bucket can hold
One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
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Pale

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear
I paled at the thought of what she might say

Bucket

A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).

Pale

Seem or become less important
All else pales by comparison

Bucket

A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.

Pale

A wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.

Bucket

(Basketball) A basket.

Pale

An area within determined bounds, or subject to a particular jurisdiction.

Bucket

To hold, carry, or put in a bucket
Bucket up water from a well.

Pale

A broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

Bucket

To ride (a horse) long and hard.

Pale

A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

Bucket

To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily
Bucketing over the unpaved lane.

Pale

A fence enclosing an area.

Bucket

To make haste; hustle.

Pale

The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

Bucket

A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

Pale

A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.

Bucket

The amount held in this container.

Pale

Pale The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.

Bucket

A large amount of liquid.

Pale

(Heraldry) A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.

Bucket

A great deal of anything.

Pale

To enclose with pales; fence in.

Bucket

A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

Pale

To cause to turn pale.

Bucket

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

Pale

To become pale; blanch
Paled with fright.

Bucket

An insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

Pale

To decrease in relative importance.

Bucket

(slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

Pale

Whitish in complexion; pallid.

Bucket

The basket.

Pale

Of a low intensity of color; light.

Bucket

A field goal.

Pale

Having high lightness and low saturation.

Bucket

(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

Pale

Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint
"a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks" (Jimmy Breslin).

Bucket

(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

Pale

Feeble; weak
A pale rendition of the aria.

Bucket

A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.

Pale

Light in color.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.

Bucket

A bucket bag.

Pale

(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.

Bucket

The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

Pale

Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.

Bucket

The pitcher in certain orchids.

Pale

(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.

Bucket

A helmet.

Pale

(intransitive) To become insignificant.

Bucket

(transitive) To place inside a bucket.

Pale

(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Bucket

(transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

Pale

To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

Bucket

To rain heavily.

Pale

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.

Bucket

To travel very quickly.

Pale

A wooden stake; a picket.

Bucket

(transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

Pale

(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

Bucket

To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

Pale

(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).

Bucket

To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

Pale

The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

Bucket

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Pale

(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

Bucket

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

Pale

(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

Bucket

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

Pale

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

Bucket

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

Pale

(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).

Bucket

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Pale

(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.

Bucket

One of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.

Pale

(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

Bucket

A bucketfull.

Pale

A cheese scoop.

Bucket

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

Pale

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
Speechless he stood and pale.
They are not of complexion red or pale.

Bucket

To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

Pale

Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;It looks a little paler.

Bucket

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

Pale

Paleness; pallor.

Bucket

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Pale

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.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.

Bucket

A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top

Pale

That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

Bucket

The quantity contained in a bucket

Pale

A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.

Bucket

Put into a bucket

Pale

A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.

Bucket

Carry in a bucket

Pale

A stripe or band, as on a garment.

Pale

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.

Pale

A cheese scoop.

Pale

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

Pale

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm.

Pale

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

Pale

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled inWith rocks unscalable and roaring waters.

Pale

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

Pale

Turn pale, as if in fear

Pale

Very light colored; highly diluted with white;
Pale seagreen
Pale blue eyes

Pale

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
The pale light of a half moon
A pale sun
The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
A pallid sky
The pale (or wan) stars
The wan light of dawn

Pale

Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;
A pale rendition of the aria
Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender
A pallid performance

Pale

Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;
The pallid face of the invalid
Her wan face suddenly flushed

Pale

Not full or rich;
High, pale, pure and lovely song

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