Definition of Pallet

Babylon English
pallet
n. straw-filled mattress; hard and simple bed; platform used to stack items during moving or storage; potter's tool; board where ceramics are place while drying; board for holding and mixing paints

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Pallet Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

BTS Transportation Expressions
Pallet
A platform with or without sides, on which a number of packages or pieces may be loaded to facilitate handling by a lift truck. (MARAD2)

2K Group Shipping, Trade, Insurance Dictionary
Pallet
A platform (usually two-deck), with or without sides, on which a number of packages or pieces may be loaded to facilitate handling by a lift truck.

pallet
A flat tray, generally made of wood but occasionally of steel, on which goods particularly those in boxes, cartons or bags, can be stacked. Its purpose is to facilitate the movement of such goods, mainly by the use of forklift trucks.

Raynet Business & Marketing Glossary
Pallet
a standard-sized base for assembling, sorting, stacking, handling and transporting products as a unit.

Shipping Glossary
Pallet
A platform (usually two-deck), with or without sides, on which a number of packages or pieces may be loaded to facilitate handling by a lift truck.

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Pallet Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
pallet
(*) 1. 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. 2. (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
  


Pallet Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pallet
(n.)
Same as Palette.
  
(n.)
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  
(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.
  
(n.)
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
  
(n.)
In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
  
(n.)
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  
(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.
  
(n.)
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  
(n.)
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
  
(n.)
A potter's wheel.
  
(n.)
A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
  
(n.)
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  
(n.)
A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  

WordNet 2.0
pallet

Noun
1. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
(synonym) palette
(hypernym) scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
2. a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
(hypernym) platform
3. a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
(hypernym) hand tool
4. a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
(hypernym) mattress
5. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
(synonym) palette
(hypernym) board


Pallet Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Dream Dictionary
Pallet
To dream of a pallet, denotes that you will suffer temporary uneasiness over your love affairs. For a young woman, it is a sign of a jealous rival.
  


Pallet Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries

maritime&shipping&trade
Pallet
carrying platform to which loose cargo is secured before placing aboard the aircraft.


Pallet Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Pallet
A pallet (sometimes called a skid) is a flat transport structure designed to support a variety of goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by any mobile forkliftpallet jack, or other jacking device. The goods are placed on top of the pallet, and can be secured to it by straps or stretch-wrapped plastic film.

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