Definition of pallets Pallets

/pæˈlʌts/ - [patluts] -

We found 3 definitions of pallets from 2 different sources.

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What does pallets mean?

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  • pallets (Noun)
    Plural of pallet.

Part of speech

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  • pallets, verb, present, 3rd person singular of pallet (infinitive).
  • pallets, noun, plural of pallet.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: pallets

pallet - a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
pallet - a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
pallet - a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet - board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
  palette
pallet - the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
  palette
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • pallet (Noun)
    A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
  • pallet (Noun)
    A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment Joint Publication 1-02 U. S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 As Amended Through 14 April 2006. .
  • pallet (Noun)
    DOD only 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
  • pallet (Noun)
    A straw bed.
  • pallet (Noun)
    By extension from above A makeshift bed.
  • pallet (Noun)
    A narrow vertical strip.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • pallet (n.)
    A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
  • pallet (n.)
    Same as Palette.
  • pallet (n.)
    A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
  • pallet (n.)
    A potter's wheel.
  • pallet (n.)
    An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  • pallet (n.)
    A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  • pallet (n.)
    A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  • pallet (n.)
    A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  • pallet (n.)
    One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  • pallet (n.)
    One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
  • pallet (n.)
    In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
  • pallet (n.)
    One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
  • pallet (n.)
    A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • pallet
    A flat transport structure designed to support a variety of goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by any mobile forklift or other jacking device.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • pallet
    pal′et, n. a palette: the tool used by potters for shaping their wares: an instrument for spreading gold-leaf: a tool used in lettering the backs of books: one of the points moved by the pendulum of a clock which check the motion of the escape or balance wheel: a disc in the endless chain of a chain-pump: a ballast-locker in a ship: a valve by which the admission of air from the bellows to an organ-pipe may be regulated from the keyboard: a board for carrying newly moulded bricks. [Palette.]
  • pallet
    pal′et, n. a mattress, or couch, properly a mattress of straw. [Prov. Fr. paillet, dim. of Fr. paille, straw—L. palea, chaff.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book

  • pallet
    A ballast-locker formerly used, to give room in the hold for other stowage.

Part of speech

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  • pallet, verb, present, 1st person singular of pallet (infinitive).
  • pallet, verb (infinitive).
  • pallet, verb, past participle of pallet (infinitive).
  • pallet, verb, past simple of pallet (infinitive).
  • pallet, noun, singular of pallets.

Pronunciation

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