Difference between Thin and Pale

What is the difference between Thin and Pale?

Thin as an adjective is slim, narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually carrying little fat. while Pale as an adjective is light in color.

Thin

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Slim, narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually carrying little fat. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey. Scarce. Overly strict. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make thin or thinner To become thin or thinner To dilute

Example sentence: After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Pale

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: light in color.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become pale. To become insignificant.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A wooden stake.A fence, especially one made from wooden stakes.limits, bounds (especially with )The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.A vertical band down the middle of a shield.A territory or defensive area that one nation holds in another country, e.g., Britain's medieval control of Calais in France or Dublin in Ireland.The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

Example sentence: I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

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