pallet
A bed of loose strawA bed of loose straw.
» The team built the house from recycled steel containers and pallets.
Meaning
15 sensesA 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
(broadly)Any makeshift bedding place.
Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
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
A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
A potter's wheel.
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
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 sentencesThe team built the house from recycled steel containers and pallets.
In the criminals' storehouse, the authorities found pallets upon pallets of stolen goods.
The wooden pallets were used to transport the goods from one place to another.
At higher production rates, it becomes necessary to use an automatic palletizer to sort boxes of finished goods onto pallets for shipping.
Oscar Díaz, managing director of Mundopalet, a company that makes pallets to transport goods, is a worried man.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old FrenFrom 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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