Pale vs. Tint — What's the Difference?

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment

A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.

Inferior or unimpressive

A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear

A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.

Seem or become less important

A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.

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

(Printing) A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.

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

A dye for the hair.

A broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

To give a tint to or take on a tint.

A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

A slight coloring.

A fence enclosing an area.

A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

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

A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

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

A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

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

  To shade, to color.

To enclose with pales; fence in.

A slight coloring.

To cause to turn pale.

A pale or faint tinge of any color.

To become pale; blanch

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

To decrease in relative importance.

A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Whitish in complexion; pallid.

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

Of a low intensity of color; light.

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

Having high lightness and low saturation.

Dye with a color

Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint

Feeble; weak

Light in color.

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

Feeble, faint.

(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.

(intransitive) To become insignificant.

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

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

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.

A wooden stake; a picket.

(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

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

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

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

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

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

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

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

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

A cheese scoop.

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

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

Paleness; pallor.

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;