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Definition: Pail |
PailNoun1. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top. 2. The quantity contained in a pail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pail" was first used: 1336. (references) |
Etymology: Pail \Pail\, noun. [from Old English expression paile, Anglo-Saxon p[ae]gel wine vessel, pail, akin to Dutch German pegel watermark, gauge rod, measure of wine, Danish p[ae]gel half pint.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of full pails of milk, is a sign of fair prospects and pleasant associations. An empty pail is a sign of famine, or bad crops. For a young woman to be carrying a pail, denotes household employment. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PailSynonyms: bucket (n), pailful (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pail |
| English words defined with "pail": Blickey ♦ Cogue ♦ dinner bucket, dinner pail ♦ pailful, Piggin ♦ slop jar, slop pail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pail": CARBON-COATER-MACHINE OPERATOR, CLEANER, WINDOW, coater, carbon paper, COOKER, CASING, CRACKER SPRAYER, CULTURED-MARBLE-PRODUCTS MAKER ♦ fish hatchery assistant, fish hatchery attendant, FISH HATCHERY WORKER, flavor maker ♦ Goodman's Fields ♦ MATURITY CHECKER ♦ SEAL MIXER, seal-mixing operator ♦ TIN-WHIZ-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ UNLEAVENED-DOUGH MIXER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pail": Skeed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Cute as a pail full of kittens (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) | |
Lyrics | Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail (Jump Jive An' Wail; performing artist: Brian Setzer Orchestra; writing credit: L. Prima) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Magic Pail (1916) Garbage Pail Kids (1988) The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The dinner pail. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Milk can and pail for pickup truck near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lunch pail of family of Mexican carrot pickers, coats and straw for bunching carrots. Near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migrant getting out of car with pail to get some water. Encamped along roadside near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro cane cutter's dinner pail and jacket on heap of cut sugarcane for USSC (United States Sugar Corporation). Clewiston, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The empty market basket and the full dinner pail. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rusted mop pail" by Johnnie Crash Commentary: "A janitor mop and pail close up on the pail. Very much rusted." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Steven Wright | I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | When I went to get a pail of water early in the morning I frequently saw this stately bird sailing out of my cove within a few rods |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Pail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Pail" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.65% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pail": dinner pail ♦ ice pail ♦ pail closet ♦ pail of water ♦ slop pail. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pail": pail-like, pail-mail. | |
Ending with "pail": milk-pail, slop-pail. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vedër (bucket), kovë (bail, bin, bucket, skip). (various references) | |
Arabic | سطل (bucket), دلو (bail, bucket). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кофа (bowk, bucket, corf, grab, pailful), ведро (tub). (various references) | |
Chinese | 桶 . (various references) | |
Czech | vìdro (bucket, tub), kbelík, džber. (various references) | |
Danish | spand (bucket). (various references) | |
Dutch | emmer (bucket). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sitelo (bucket). (various references) | |
Faeroese | spann (bucket). (various references) | |
Farsi | سطل (Bail, Bucket, Kit), دلو (Bucket), بقدریک سطل . (various references) | |
Finnish | ämpäri (bucket). (various references) | |
French | seau. (various references) | |
Frisian | amer (bucket). (various references) | |
German | Eimer (bin, bucket, buckets, can, pailful, pails). (various references) | |
Greek | κάδοσ (bucket, cask, tub), κάδος αντλήσεως (bucket, draw bucket), κάδος (bin, churn), κουβάσ (bucket), κουβάς (bucket), σούγλοσ, σίκλοσ, αλμεκτικό δοχείο (bucket, milker pail), δοχείο συλλογής γάλακτος (bucket, milker pail), δοχείο αμέλγματος (bucket, milker pail). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דלי (bucket), גגית (bucket, tub, vat, washtub). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vödör (bucket, kibble, noria scoop). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ember (bucket). (various references) | |
Irish | buicéad (bucket). (various references) | |
Italian | secchio (bucket, bucketful), secchia (bucket). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina), 手桶 (bucket), 水桶 (cistern, water tank). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バケツ (bucket), みずおけ (cistern, water tank), ておけ (bucket). (various references) | |
Korean | 들통. (various references) | |
Malay | ember (bucket). (various references) | |
Manx | cruick [f] (bucket), cruick (bucket). (various references) | |
Papiamen | hèmchi (bucket), hèmber (bucket), èmer (bucket). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | balde (bailer, bucket, scuttle, tub). (various references) | |
Romanian | vadrã (bucket, kit, tub), gãleatã (bucket, bucketful, kit, pailful), cuvã (box, tub, vat), ciubãr (kit, tub, vat), benã (dipper, ladle). (various references) | |
Russian | ведро (bucket), бадья (bowk, bucket, kettle, kibble, tub). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuman (bucket, coggie, milking pail), cuinneag (a pail, bucket, pitcher). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vedro (brightly, bucket), vedrica, kofa (bucket, canikin, cannikin, hod), kanta (bucket, can). (various references) | |
Spanish | cubo (block, bucket, bucketful, cube, hub, nave, pailful, tub), balde (bucket, for free, for nothing, free of charge, tub). (various references) | |
Sranan | emre (bucket), embre (bucket). (various references) | |
Swedish | hink (bowk, bucket, pailful), spann (bucket, pailful, pair, span, spun, team), ämbar. (various references) | |
Turkish | kova (Aquarius, bucket, skip). (various references) | |
Turkmen | uяluk, bedre. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відро (bail, bucket). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái thùng. (various references) | |
Welsh | stwc (bucket), cunnog, crwc, celwrn (bucket, tub), bwced (bucket). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'ooy (bucket). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aqualis, patella. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | galleta. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | paielle. (various references) |
| Anglo-Norman | 1100-1600 | buquet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pail": pailful, pailfuls, paillard, paillards, paillette, paillettes, pails, pailsful. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pail": spail. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pail": spails. (additional references) | |
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"Pail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apal, apell, apil, Apilu, Aplix, Apol, Aptamil, paal, Pacioli, padl, pael, paelm, pai, paif, paig, paik, Pa'il, paill, Pailly, pailo, pairl, paix, paiz, palio, panial, papill, papl, paql, parl, Pasik, Paulz, Pavil, paxi, paxil, payi, peil, peile, peli, pevil, pexil, pfill, phacili, Phail, phil, piaf, piah, piale, piila, pil, Pila, pili, pilz, piol, plia, Poil, pomil, prael, Prahl, praik, prail, pril, psilo, Pucill, puile, puli, puliv, spail. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pail" (pronounced pā"l) |
| 3 | p ā" l | impale, pale. |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, stale, surveil, tail, tale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, prevail, quail, quale, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lipa, pial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-p" | |
-1 letter: ail, alp, lap, lip, pal, pia. | |
-2 letters: ai, al, la, li, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-p" | |
+1 letter: lapin, lapis, limpa, milpa, pails, palpi, phial, pibal, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pipal, plaid, plain, plait, plica, spail. | |
+2 letters: aliped, alpine, apical, aplite, caliph, caplin, elapid, epical, espial, impala, impale, kaliph, lapins, limpas, lipase, lipoma, magilp, milpas, palais, palier, paling, palish, pallia, pallid, pastil, paulin, penial, phalli, phials, pibals, pilaff, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pillar, pineal, pinnal, pipals, placid, plaice, plaids, plains, plaint, plaits, pleiad, pliant, plicae, plical, primal, salpid, spails, spinal, spiral, spital. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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