pallet

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr

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Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
  2. (military) 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[1].
  3. (military) (DOD only)463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft[1].
Translations
a portable platform
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 托盤 cmn(cmn), 托盘 cmn(cmn) (tuōpán), 托板 cmn(cmn) (tuōbǎn), 拖板 cmn(cmn) (tuōbǎn), 棘爪 cmn(cmn) (jízhuǎ)
  • Czech: paleta cs(cs) f.
  • Danish: palle da(da)
  • Finnish: kuormalava
  • French: Palette fr(fr)
  • German: Palette de(de) f.
  • Hungarian: raklap hu(hu)
  • Latvian: paliktne lv(lv)
  • Macedonian: палета mk(mk) (paléta) f.
  • Norwegian: pall no(no) m.
  • Russian: палета f.
  • Spanish: paleta es(es)
  • Swedish: pall sv(sv) c.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. A straw bed.
  2. (By extension from above) A makeshift bed.
Translations
A straw bed
  • Russian: соломенная постель f.

Etymology 3

Latin palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical strip.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).

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Latin

Verb

pallet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of palleō.

 

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