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pail    音标拼音: [p'el]
n. 桶,提桶,一桶的量

桶,提桶,一桶的量

pail
n 1: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [synonym:
{bucket}, {pail}]
2: the quantity contained in a pail [synonym: {pail}, {pailful}]

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  • Whats the difference between “bucket” and “pail”?
    Pail, sad to say, is utterly lacking in this regard EDIT: Taking a look through Google's N-Gram viewer, it's not hard to see why: This comparison of bucket and pail from 1800 till today shows the latter's usage diverging noticeably from the former's around the era of 1940–1960, to becoming a much less popular a synonym for the former
  • What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale?
    From World Wide Words: Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade or fence
  • idioms - What is the origin of pale, male and stale? - English . . .
    The combination of words seems to have originated as part of a spoof advertising slogan in the 50s It seems quite plausible (but obviously not certain) that this is the origin of the modern usage
  • word choice - What are these containers called for waste? - English . . .
    When I was a kid in the 1960s we had both a trash can and a garbage pail, because, I think, the city collected them separately Rubbish is mostly a British term (I now live in a city where there are separate collections for trash, recyclables, food scraps for compost, and yard waste, but most American cities are doing well to separate trash
  • What is the origin of Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
    The origin comes from the Peter tax and the Paul tax: The expression refers to times before the Reformation when Church taxes had to be paid to St Paul's church in London and to St Peter's church in Rome; originally it referred to neglecting the Peter tax in order to have money to pay the Paul tax
  • If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out?
    From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump'
  • etymology - Origin of tail over teakettle? - English Language Usage . . .
    According to The Phrase Finder, it is a variation of ass end over teakettle and actually Ngran shows that its usage started a few years later
  • What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you?
    The phrase emerges from two related meanings of "top," was a common greeting throughout the United Kingdom in the 19th century, and fell out of use only to be revived as a so-called Irish expression by American filmmakers looking for ways to distinguish Irish characters
  • Flow Over Furniture stripping system (Lexington) $800
    There is no time wasted in getting stripper from a pail and pouring it over the furniture The pump is a diaphragm pump run with a small compressor ( not included ) like the ones used for nail guns Included is a 4'x8'tray with base, pump, gloves, arm sleeves, bung wrench, pail heater, and a 16" Dayton hazardous exhaust fan for $800 00
  • Is there a word to describe indecisiveness between two things?
    The ass in question is a donkey that is equally thirsty and hungry, finds itself midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water, and, unable to make its mind up, dies of hunger and thirst The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan , whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirizes





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