pallet
pronunciation
How to pronounce pallet in British English:
UK [ˈpælət]
How to pronounce pallet in American English:
US [ˈpælɪt]
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- Noun:
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
- a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
- a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
- a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
Word Origin
- pallet
- pallet: see pale
- pallet (n.1)
- "mattress," late 14c., from Anglo-French paillete "straw, bundle of straw," Old French paillet "chaff, bundle of straw," from paille "straw" (12c.), from Latin palea "chaff," perhaps cognate with Sanskrit palavah, Old Church Slavonic pleva, Russian peleva, Lithuanian pelus.
- pallet (n.2)
- "flat wooden blade" used as a tool by potters, etc., early 15c., from Middle French palette, diminutive of pale "spade, shovel" (see palette). Meaning "large portable tray" used with a forklift for moving loads is from 1921.
Example
- 1. Pallet furniture ideas ultimate pallet furniture collection : 58 unique ideas
- 2. Palletizing refers to the process of loading goods in pallet .
- 3. Influence of joint venture on the enterprises of pallet production and countermeasures to be adopted .
- 4. With u.s. industrial output , imports and exports trailing year-ago levels by 13 to 27 % , pallet sales will remain slow .
- 5. The new-style wooden pallet has economical efficiency and can he reused , so it is a technical innovation in ketchup packaging and has broad market prospect .