PAL (palled, palling)

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Irregular inflected forms: palled    , palling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pal mean? 

• PAL (noun)
  The noun PAL has 1 sense:

1. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

  Familiarity information: PAL used as a noun is very rare.

• PAL (verb)
  The verb PAL has 1 sense:

1. become friends; act friendly towards

  Familiarity information: PAL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

brother; buddy; chum; crony; pal; sidekick

Hypernyms ("pal" is a kind of...):

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pal"):

cobber (Australian term for a pal)

Derivation:

pal (become friends; act friendly towards)

• PAL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pal    ... he / she / it pals   
Past simple: paled   
Past participle: paled   
-ing form: paling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become friends; act friendly towards

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

chum up; pal; pal up

Hypernyms (to "pal" is one way to...):

befriend (become friends with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

pal (a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities)

 Context examples 

I told my pal what I had done, for he was a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I'm goin' with our little red pals and I mean to see them through the scrap.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Gold Commissioner's a special pal of his.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Roundworm mutants of pals-22 always have IPR genes on, which causes increased tolerance of heat shock and other types of stress.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“I know you, right enough. Well, you and your pals have just come in time for me to be able to introduce you to Mrs. Woodley.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their bid was low pleasure, narrow as the grave, that palled, and the grave was at the end of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There will only be one other, our old pal at the Korea, Jack Seward.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Back and shoulders were a warm brown that paled on the sides and underneath to a yellow that was dingy because of the brown that lingered in it.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When a halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)