pale vs platinum

pale

adj
  • Light in color. 

  • Feeble, faint. 

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

noun
  • Limits, bounds (especially before of). 

  • A vertical band down the middle of a shield. 

  • A cheese scoop. 

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

  • A wooden stake; a picket. 

verb
  • To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. 

  • To turn pale; to lose colour. 

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

  • To become insignificant. 

platinum

adj
  • Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal. 

  • Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums). 

  • Very expensive, or of very high quality 

verb
  • to reach platinum level in a game 

noun
  • A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million. 

  • A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal. 

  • A platinum-based drug: a platin. 

  • The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value. 

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