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Definitions: Pallet |
PalletNoun1. The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art". 2. A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it. 3. A hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay. 4. A mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed. 5. Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pallet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Small portable platform on which products may be handled, dried, stored or transported within the factory. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Pallet The painter in Smollett's Peregrine Pickle. A man without one jot of reverence for ancient customs or modern etiquette. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Shipping | A platform with or without sides, on which a number of packages or pieces may be loaded to facilitate handling by a lift truck. (references) |
Slang | Description. Source: Sierra. Definition: A pallet is what the distributers put their products on that make it easy to put on the trucks and get into the store. They can hold a lot of product and take a long time to work through. Context: Pallet is used in context to describe a load of product that needs to be worked to the shelves. Social Source: 29th and Willamette Price Chopper employees. . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PalletSynonym: palette (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Pallet, brace, cart, dolley; support; fork lift. |
Painting | Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. |
Support | Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A big sou of this kind, on subsequent examination was the police, was found open and in two pieces in the room under the pallet near the window. |
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Business | Any shipment in a wood crate or wood pallet is subject to comply with standard NOM-EM-004-RECNAT-1996, which states that all products that are imported inside of a wood box or container or having wood packaging may be inspected at the point of entry to Mexico. (references) | |
The national dividing line between parcel delivery and freight carriage is the package size. Parcels must be of a weight and size that a single worker can safely lift and carry, freight shipments generally need mechanically assisted handling, by pallet truck, tail-lift, or forklift. (references) | ||
Economic History | Netherlands | New and innovative pallet construction practices in the Netherlands might help exports of U.S. plywood as well. (references) |
Human Rights | Guyana | Inmates generally sleep on a thin pallet on the concrete floor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pallet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pallet" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 89 | 34,931 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pallet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pallet | Last name | 130 | 61,351 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippon Pallet Pool Co., Ltd. | USA | Pallet Management Systems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pallet": aircraft flat pallet ♦ pallet collar ♦ pallet converter ♦ pallet storer and retriever ♦ pallet truck. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pallet": pallet-bed, pallet-wood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pallet rack | 351 |
pallet truck | 292 |
pallet jack | 231 |
pallet | 219 |
pallet racking | 153 |
pallet jacks | 105 |
pallet conveyor | 76 |
pallet storage rack | 74 |
pallet storage | 71 |
pallet wrapper | 67 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pallet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paletë, shtrat i keq, lopatëz (scoop, spatula), kaci (dustpan, scoop), dyshek kashte (paillasse, pallet-bed, palliasse), dhëmbëz (barb, cog, Dent, denticle, dentil, jag, merlon, Nock, notch, notching, tooth). (various references) | |
Arabic | فراش قش, منقاش تذهيب, منصة نقالة, لوح تحميل, تبن (chaff, hay, straw), سرير (bed, bedstead, couch, kip, lair). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сламеник (paillasse, palliasse), шпакла, котва (anchor, armature, keeper, tongue), клапа (finger-hole, flap, gate, key, register, shutter, stop, valve, vent, ventage, ventil), грънчарски плосък уред, носилка за формовани тухли, зъбно колелце с палец, палет, палитра (palette). (various references) | |
Chinese | 板台. (various references) | |
Czech | paleta (palette, range, spectrum), slamník, slamìné lože (pallet-bed). (various references) | |
Danish | palle med løs ramme (collar, pallet collar, pallet converter), palettransportør (pallet storer and retriever), paletconveyor (pallet storer and retriever), løftegaffel (elevating fork, fork lift carrier, fork lift truck, fork of the lift, pallet carrier, pallet fork, pallet truck, tractor fork lift), boxpalle af trae (slatted box pallet two-way), el-drevet palletloeftetruck for siddende foerer (rider seated electric pallet truck), faconpalle (pallet for special shapes), gaffelløfter (elevating fork, fork lift carrier, fork lift truck, fork of the lift, pallet carrier, pallet fork, pallet truck, tractor fork lift), gaffeltruck (counterbalanced lift truck, elevating fork, fork lift carrier, fork lift truck, fork of the lift, pallet carrier, pallet fork, pallet truck, tractor fork lift), hagegang (deadbeat escapement, pin pallet escapement), balanceaksel til stiftgang med plateau til stoedsikring (balance staff for pin pallet escapement and roller for shock absorbing device), kassepalle af trae (slatted box pallet two-way), traktordreven løfteanordning (elevating fork, fork lift carrier, fork lift truck, fork of the lift, pallet carrier, pallet fork, pallet truck, tractor fork lift), loeftegaffel (elevating fork, fork of the lift, pallet fork), motordrevet palletloeftetruck for gaaende foerer (pedestrian engine driven pallet truck), motordrevet palletloeftetruck for staaende foerer (stand on engine driven pallet truck), Stiftankergang (deadbeat escapement, pin pallet escapement), hydraulisk palleloeftevogn (hydraulically operated elevating pallet truck). (various references) | |
Dutch | pennengang (deadbeat escapement, pin pallet escapement), penechappement (deadbeat escapement, pin pallet escapement), pallettenwissel (pallet changer), palettenverdeler (pallet storer and retriever), vorkheftruck (elevating fork, fork lift carrier, fork lift truck, fork of the lift, pallet carrier, pallet fork, pallet truck, tractor fork lift), vatenpallet (pallet for special shapes), stapelbordomvormer (collar, pallet collar, pallet converter), stapelbordenheftruck met verbrandingsmotor voor bediening door voetganger (pedestrian engine driven pallet truck), stapelbordenheftruck met verbrandingsmotor en staanplaats (stand on engine driven pallet truck), hydraulisch heffende stapelbordenheftruck (hydraulically operated elevating pallet truck), houten boxpallet (slatted box pallet two-way), electrisch gedreven stapelbordenheftruck met zitplaats voor bestuurder (rider seated electric pallet truck). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماله مخصوص کوزه گران , ماله ء صافکاری , تخته پهن , تشک کاهی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kuormalavakuljetin (pallet storer and retriever), irtolaidat (collar, pallet collar, pallet converter). (various references) | |
French | plateau (pad, pan), plaque (pane, panel, patch), palette (paddle, palette, pallette), paillasse (paillasse), grabat. (various references) | |
German | pritsche (fool's wand, plank bed, platform, slapstick, tray), palette (palette, pallete, range, spectrum). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύλινο μαχαιρίδιο, χρωματοπινάκιο (palette), αχυρόστρωμα (mulch, paillasse, palliasse), ψάθα (bass, common marram, common marramgrass, european beachgrass, lug sail, mat, matting, runner, slip mat, straw hat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטת קש, כף יוצרים, טבלת צבעים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalmazsák (paillasse, palliasse), szalmaágy (pallet-bed), raklap, priccs (bed of boards, berth, bunk, doss). (various references) | |
Italian | pallet, paletta (baffle, bat, blade, cutting blade, dustpan, finger, flail, flailing hammer, flicker, paddle, plate, scoop, scraper, shovel, spade, swinging flail, trowel, vane), pagliericcio, giaciglio (bed, couch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パルス幅変調 (palace, Palestine, palette, parade, Parmesan cheese, partisan, party, pulp, pulp magazine, pulse width modulation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パレット (palette). (various references) | |
Korean | "판. (various references) | |
Manx | lhiabbee thooee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alletpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palheta (blade, cutting blade, finger, fixed blade, flail, flailing hammer, flake, flicker, louver, palet, plectrum, scale, stationary blade, stator blade, swinging flail, vane, vibrator), lingueta (bolt, catch, craddle, dog, feather, feed gate, gate, latch, latching, lock, pawl, spline, tongue), espátula de oleiro, enxerga, carregador de caixão. (various references) | |
Romanian | placa transportorului, pat (bed, bedstead, bunk, cot, couch, doss, layer, pad, stalemate), paletã (bat, blade, float, paddle, palette), saltea de paie (paillasse, straw mattress), lopatã (float, oar, paddle, Peel, shovel, spade), crapodinã. (various references) | |
Russian | соломенный тюфяк (chaff bed, paillasse, palliasse), койка (berth, bunk, kip, sack), нары (plank bed, plank-bed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | platforma (pad, platform, ramp), paleta (palette), ivica (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, edging, flange, fringe, limb, lip, marge, margin, rand, rim, verge). (various references) | |
Spanish | paleta (aerofoil, airfoil, battledore, blade, flight, ice lolly, mixing arm, paddel arm, paddle, palette, pallette, scraper, spreader, trowel, vane, wing), válvula (heart valve, shutoff, tube, vacuum tube, valve, vent), trinquete (bolt, catch, click, clique, coterie, detent, folding stirrup, foremast, junto, latch, pawl, pin, rack element, ratchet, set, stop, trip, wiper), jergón (mattress, oaf). (various references) | |
Swedish | hård bädd, brits (bunk). (various references) | |
Turkish | palet (fin, flipper, palette, pallete, track), ot minder (paillasse), ot şilte (paillasse, palliasse), istif rafı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | солом'яний матрац, нари, піддон (underpan), палітра (palette). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ổ rơm (shakedown). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | grabattis, grabatto, grabattum, palea. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | paillete. (various references) |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | paillet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pallet": palletise, palletised, palletises, palletising, palletization, palletizations, palletize, palletized, palletizer, palletizers, palletizes, palletizing, pallets, pallette, pallettes. (additional references) | |
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"Pallet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allett, aplet, nallet, Paillat, Paille, Palat, paleit, paleo, paleta, paletle, palett, palex, palit, Pallam, pallat, palle, pallee, pallent, paller, pallete, pallett, pallia, Pallie, pallip, pallot, palte, Paulet, Pavlita, Pawlet, Pawlett, pelet, pelle, Pellett, pelliti, pellot, pielet, pilet, Pillay, pillet, piolet, plaget, plaret, platlet, Poblet, Pollert, Pollet, Pollett, pollit, poulet, psallat, sallet, Spalletti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pallet" (pronounced pa"lut) |
| 5 | p a" l u t | palate, palette. |
| 4 | -a" l u t | ballot, mallet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-p-t" | |
-1 letter: lapel, leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal. | |
-2 letters: late, leal, leap, lept, pale, pall, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tale, tall, tape, teal, tela, tell, tepa. | |
-3 letters: ale, all, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, ell, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, pa, pe, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pallets, patella, playlet. | |
+2 letters: allotype, pallette, palliate, palliest, pastille, patellae, patellar, patellas, pelletal, petalled, plantlet, plateful, platelet, playlets, preallot, teleplay. | |
+3 letters: allotrope, allotypes, appellant, appellate, leadplant, paillette, palatable, palletise, palletize, pallettes, palliated, palliates, palmately, papillate, papillote, pastilles, patrolled, patroller, petallike, philately, placental, plantable, plantlets, plantlike, platefuls, platelets, platelike, platesful, pleatless, pollinate, popliteal, preallots, pullulate, pulsatile, repellant, soleplate, tailplane, teleplays. | |
+4 letters: allotropes, allotypies, appellants, carpellate, depletable, elliptical, epiglottal, epithelial, eucalyptol, floatplane, leadplants, leucoplast, lightplane, malapertly, paclitaxel, paillettes, palatalize, palletised, palletises, palletized, palletizer, palletizes, palliative, papillotes, parentally, pastellist, paternally, patrollers, petulantly, philatelic, pistillate, pixillated, placentals, planetlike, plangently, plateglass, platterful, pleasantly, poetically, pollinated, pollinates, polyvalent, portabella, portabello, potentilla, prenatally, propellant, pullulated, pullulates, repellants, soleplates, spectrally, tailplanes, temporally, tripletail. | |
+5 letters: acropetally, allelopathy, allopatries, allotropies, aphetically, apophyllite, appellation, appellative, aseptically, basipetally, boilerplate, cappelletti, caterpillar, cupellation, ectopically, ellipticals, epitaxially, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, exploitable, floatplanes, implantable, ipsilateral, lamplighter, leptospiral, leucoplasts, lightplanes, multiplayer, paclitaxels, painfullest, palatalized, palatalizes, palletising, palletizers, palletizing, palliatives, pastellists, patelliform, patrilineal, pedestalled, pedicellate, penicillate, perinatally, perpetually, petrodollar, philatelies, philatelist, phyllotaxes, plaintively, planetoidal, planetology, platterfuls, plattersful, pluralities, portabellas, portabellos, potentially, potentillas, preallotted, prevalently, propellants, realpolitik, skeptically, thallophyte, tripletails, ultrasimple, unpalatable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6C 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. .-.. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l l e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006C 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506778787186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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