Fence vs. Pale — What's the Difference?

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting. A fence differs from a wall in not having a solid foundation along its whole length.Alternatives to fencing include a ditch (sometimes filled with water, forming a moat).

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment

A structure serving as an enclosure, a barrier, or a boundary, usually made of posts or stakes joined together by boards, wire, or rails.

Inferior or unimpressive

An adjustable guide with a flat edge used on a table saw and positioned parallel to the plane of the cutting attachment in order to keep the board properly positioned for the cut to be made at the correct distance from the board's edge.

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear

One who receives and sells stolen goods.

Seem or become less important

A place where stolen goods are received and sold.

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

(Archaic) A means of defense; a protection.

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

To surround or enclose with a fence or other barrier.

A broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

To separate or keep out by means of a fence or other barrier

A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

To sell (stolen goods) to a fence.

A fence enclosing an area.

To ward off; keep away.

The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

To defend.

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

To practice the art or sport of fencing.

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

To avoid giving direct answers; hedge.

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

To act as a conduit for stolen goods.

To enclose with pales; fence in.

A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.

To cause to turn pale.

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

To become pale; blanch

(by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.

To decrease in relative importance.

Skill in oral debate.

Whitish in complexion; pallid.

The art or practice of fencing.

Of a low intensity of color; light.

A guard or guide on machinery.

Having high lightness and low saturation.

(figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint

A memory barrier.

Feeble; weak

(transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

Light in color.

(transitive) To defend or guard.

(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

(transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

Feeble, faint.

To engage in the sport of fencing.

(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.

To jump over a fence.

(intransitive) To become insignificant.

(intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

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

That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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

An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

A wooden stake; a picket.

Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.

(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.

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

To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.

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

To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.

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

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

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

To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

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

A barrier that serves to enclose an area

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

A dealer in stolen property

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

Enclose with a fence;

A cheese scoop.

Receive stolen goods

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Fight with fencing swords

Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

Paleness; pallor.

Have an argument about something

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.

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

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

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

A stripe or band, as on a garment.

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.

A cheese scoop.

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

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

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

Turn pale, as if in fear

Very light colored; highly diluted with white;

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;

Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;

Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;

Not full or rich;