pail

/peɪl/ (bre, ipa) · /peɪl/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈpāl/ (ame, mw)

pail — noun

  • pailsingular
  • pailsplural

1. a deep round holder with a curved grip at the top, used to carry water, milk, sa

1.名詞B2
釋義

a deep round holder with a curved grip at the top, used to carry water, milk, sand, and similar things

例句

Apinya carried a pail of fresh water from the well to the kitchen.

a pail of + liquid

At dawn, Hassan filled a metal pail with milk straight from the cow.

fill a pail with something

同義詞
  • bucket

    the everyday word in British English and most modern uses

  • tub

    usually wider and lower, often without a single curved handle

  • container

    much broader; says nothing about shape or handle

文法句型

a pail of + liquid

fill a pail with something

carry a pail

用法筆記

Close in meaning to bucket, but heard more often in North American English and in older or rural contexts (milk pail, well pail). Distinguish from sense 2, where pail names the amount inside rather than the object itself.

常見錯誤

❌She poured the milk to the pail.
✅She poured the milk into the pail.
💡use into when the liquid moves inside the container.

2. the amount that fills one pail, used when counting water, milk, food, or other s

2.名詞
釋義

the amount that fills one pail, used when counting water, milk, food, or other supplies

例句

By sunset, Arjun had drawn three pails of water from the deep village well.

three pails of + noun

Each morning, the farm sells two pails of milk to the village bakery.

two pails of + noun

同義詞
  • pailful

    more exact for one full pail

  • bucketful

    the same idea using the more common word bucket

  • load

    broader and often suggests a larger or less exact amount

文法句型

a pail of something

two pails of something

用法筆記

Common with numbers and with of (two pails of milk, three pails of water). Sense 1 is about the container itself; this sense is about how much is inside.

常見錯誤

❌We brought a pail apples.
✅We brought a pail of apples.
💡this quantity sense needs pail of + noun.