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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 is completely synonymous with bucket, except in phrases such as diner pail, slop pail, oyster pail, kick the bucket, bucket brigade, bucket seat, bucket hat, etc
  • What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale?
    Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits So beyond the pale just means "outside the boundaries" Normally, of course, the "boundaries" are metaphors for human activities, rather than referring to a physically bounded location
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    There are so many ways to call these containers for waste (correct me if some of them might sound weird unnatural to use) garbage can, trash can, rubbish can, pedal can, garbage bin, trash bin,
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    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 It could, of course, have evolved multiple times From "The Connoisseur's Guide to Beer" by James Donald Robertson (1984): This brand first appeared in 1954 when radio KDKA disc jockey Rege Cordic
  • What American dialects merge pail and pal to pæl ?
    The Northern Cities Shift moves æ to eʲə or iʲə A speaker who has shifted, when saying pal, will sound like they’re saying pail (or even peel) to a speaker who hasn't shifted My son’s name is Ian 'iʲən , but every once in a while when I say it, somebody who’s shifted hears it as Ann, a girl’s name, and asks about it
  • Why is a jug of draft beer called a growler?
    Sense 4 ["A pail or other container used for carrying beer, especially a half-gallon or gallon glass jug with a gasket or screw cap" derives from] the sound made by carbon dioxide escaping from under the lids of metal pails in which beer was carried in the past
  • 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' While there is this, I
  • word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The terms dinner pail, dinner bucket, lunch box, lunch pail, and lunch bucket all have some currency, per ngrams,, but dinner box much less so Dinner pail is found in euphemism for death "To hand in one's dinner pail", and in the 1900 campaign slogan of William McKinley, "Four more years of the full dinner pail"
  • Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
    There's actually quite a bit of variation in different regions of the US As I said, it's quite common to hear Dinner as the noontime meal in many areas of the American South I've noticed that there's even a split in Texas where some regions use Lunch Dinner and others use Dinner Supper These differences have tended to mix up and get confused as people from different regions have mixed, and
  • Gender neutral noun for brotherhood sisterhood? [duplicate]
    Why don't we consider as standard 'John has sadly kicked the pail', 'a boat of the desert', 'Sibling Francis', 'personhunt', 'The Glasgow Kinship of (or similar)', References on ELU should show that usages are standardly used, not that there is an argument that they ought to be in someone's opinion





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