Meaning

15 senses
  1. A bed of loose straw.

    Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)

    соломенная постельsolómennaja postélʹ

    a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

  2. (broadly)Any makeshift bedding place.

    Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)

  3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

    Palette

    поддо́нpoddón, пале́таpaléta

    a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

  4. A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

  5. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

  6. A potter's wheel.

  7. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

  8. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

  9. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

  10. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

  11. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

  12. 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.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The team built the house from recycled steel containers and pallets.

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  2. In the criminals' storehouse, the authorities found pallets upon pallets of stolen goods.

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  3. The wooden pallets were used to transport the goods from one place to another.

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  4. At higher production rates, it becomes necessary to use an automatic palletizer to sort boxes of finished goods onto pallets for shipping.

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  5. Oscar Díaz, managing director of Mundopalet, a company that makes pallets to transport goods, is a worried man.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
straw bed:
portable platform:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
portable platform:

Origin

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old Fren

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

Learned borrowing from French palette.

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Forms

plural: pallets
Singularpallet
Pluralpallets

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used:palette
  • the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art:palette

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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